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Re: Golly's pattern collection

Posted: January 30th, 2025, 1:35 pm
by rowett
George Maydwell wrote: January 29th, 2025, 2:31 am
dvgrn wrote: February 14th, 2020, 4:34 pm Yup, I still miss George Maydwell's showy colorful Color Game of Life Visual Exhibition. I don't miss it so much now that LifeViewer is capable of doing very nearly all the same things, and a bunch of other stuff besides.
The colors used there were based solely on computed neighbor counts.

Using a different color for each total neighbor count seems to work pretty well for colorizing Game of Life. Food for thought.
I had a quick go at this in LifeViewer... (forgive the colour palette):
lifeviewer-pro-neighbour-colours.png
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EDIT: with history