The Game of Life: 2D/3D

About

This is an implementation of John Horton Conway's Game of Life. This version features a 2D simulation on a 4096x7281 Grid and a 3D simulation in a 32x32x32 Grid. There are some options to change the rules of the game (like changing the required living neighbors of a cell) and there some really cool things you can create with it. The game is optimized for Linux, however it should run just fine on Windows.

Note: unlike in the 2D simulation, cells at borders of the 3D simulation wrap around to the other side.

Controls

The controls are mostly explained in-game when pressing H, but I'm going to give an overview:

Action	in 2D	in 3D
W	move up	move forward
S	move down	move backwards
A	move left	move left
D	move right	move right
move Mouse	move cursor	rotate camera
left-click	create cell under cursor	create cell at target (B)
right-click	erase cell under cursor	erase cell at target (B)
mouse wheal	zoom in and out	in-/decrease speed / distance of target (B)
B	---	toggle build mode
shift	---	move down
space	---	move up
F3	change to 3D	change to 2D
F2	toggle auto	toggle auto
F1	clear grid	clear grid
Arrow Left	step one generation	step one generation
END	exit	exit

(B) only in build mode

Options

• simulation speed: sets the desired FPS of the simulation
• randomness: causes cells to randomly survive, even when they should have died
• render style (3D): changes the way cells are colored based on some rules
• stay alive min n: the minimum number of alive neighbors needed to survive
• stay alive max n: the maximum number of alive neighbors needed to survive
• become alive min n: the minimum number of alive neighbors needed to be born
• become alive max n: the maximum number of alive neighbors needed to be born

Render style	Description
None (default)	every cell has the same
Color	colors every cell depending on their position in the grid
Neighbour	cells with many neighbors become brighter, cells with less neighbors become darker
Checker	colors the cells in a checker pattern
New	cells that are new in this generation are colored blue, cells that remained from the previous one are colored orange

Note: render styles are only available in 3D and are applied to the following generations.

If you find some cool patterns, you can share them in the comments if you want!