"The Life"

tucnak

Hello, men.

Have you played conceptual game "The Life"? Or have you ever wrote implementation of it on Qt?

I love this game because it's a bit more interesting than Mines and it's very simple to relax with it very fast.

Small quest. What is the name of structure on my avatar?

mlong

"Conway's Game of Life,":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway's_Game_of_Life or more commonly "Life"...

bq. Small quest. What is the name of structure on my avatar?

You've got yourself a glider there.

tucnak

[quote author="mlong" date="1340919739"]"Conway's Game of Life,":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway's_Game_of_Life or more commonly "Life"...

bq. Small quest. What is the name of structure on my avatar?

You've got yourself a glider there.
[/quote]

Great Job, mlong! Have you ever wrote any implementations of "Life" on Qt Widgets/GL/QML?

sierdzio

I did, back when I was studying. Can be downloaded from "LINK":https://sites.google.com/site/sierdziohome/programming/qt/sCellAut-v0.04.zip?attredirects=0&d=1.

Be cautious, though, I have not tried compiling it for probably 3 years now :) The code is probably horrible, too. I was much worse a programmer back then.

tucnak

[quote author="sierdzio" date="1340968076"]I did, back when I was studying. Can be downloaded from "LINK":https://sites.google.com/site/sierdziohome/programming/qt/sCellAut-v0.04.zip?attredirects=0&d=1.

Be cautious, though, I have not tried compiling it for probably 3 years now :) The code is probably horrible, too. I was much worse a programmer back then.[/quote]

Great job, ~sierdzio! I've written my own implementation too, but I lost it on my previous HDD:(.

Tomorrow I will present article with process of creation it.

sierdzio

Good. It's a nice game, and quite humbling (just as the Langton's Ant I've included in the same app), when you realize how a small set of simple rules can lead to such complexity.

As for "previous HDD" - invest in Dropbox :) and/ or use hosting if the project is FOSS (github, gitorious, etc.).

tucnak

[quote author="sierdzio" date="1340971323"]Good. It's a nice game, and quite humbling (just as the Langton's Ant I've included in the same app), when you realize how a small set of simple rules can lead to such complexity.

As for "previous HDD" - invest in Dropbox :) and/ or use hosting if the project is FOSS (github, gitorious, etc.).[/quote]

Now I am using GitHub to host my projects. And I also have my personal cloud (xen) which I can access from my laptop with ssh. I don't need Dropbox)).

andre

[quote author="sierdzio" date="1340971323"]Good. It's a nice game, and quite humbling (just as the Langton's Ant I've included in the same app), when you realize how a small set of simple rules can lead to such complexity.
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Go seems a nice candidate for that as well, if you actually like to play a game.

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As for "previous HDD" - invest in Dropbox :) and/ or use hosting if the project is FOSS (github, gitorious, etc.).[/quote]
Or invest in a backup solution. Personally, I use a NAS and CrashPlan for off-site backups. IMHO, DropBox does not qualify as a backup solution.

sierdzio

Yeah, I hesitated a bit before using the word "game"...

I do play Go, by the way :) And can confirm similar effects.

mlong

I wrote a Qt version of it -- implemented as a custom widget -- many, many years ago (think Qt 2.x) but it has long been sacrificed to the gods of bit rot and is just a mere memory now.

It is definitely a fascinating exercise.