SLife

An implementation of Conway’s Game of Life running on the GPU.
Initially written as a hello world GLSL/FBO exercise, extensive gold plating and polishing turned it into a more complete application.

• Windows download SLife_win32.zip 1.6MB
• MAC OSX (x86) download SLife.dmg 2.2MB

Features

• Leverages the GPU for fast processing (naive pixel matrix implementation).
• Bounded/wraparound variable size universe (from 256×256 up to gfx card max texture size).
• Smooth zoomable/scrollable universe. (keyboard, mousewheel or mouse rhb + up/down)
• Configurable color fades for surviving and dead cells (pretty).
• Dot, Line, Text & Rectangle cell editing.
• Copy & Paste.
• Pattern image browsing/pasting – supports png,jpg formats. many images included in /patterns
• Support for life like rules – see (editable) rules.txt file
• User preferences – wraparound, universe size, color presets

Minimum System Requirements

• OS – Intel Mac OSX or Windows XP
• 1024×768 resolution
• OpenGL 2.1
• GLSL 1.20
• Half decent Graphics card (e.g. mid range circa 2008 – 2nd generation shader hardware)