Conway's Game Of Life in Gleam

GleamLife: Experience the mesmerizing simplicity of Conway's Game of Life brought to life in Gleam. Harnessing the power of functional programming, this implementation offers a visually captivating journey into the realm of cellular automata, where patterns emerge and evolve with each iteration.

Note : I want to emphasise taht I am very new to Gleam and thus some patterns might be a bit confusing. However, feel free to come up with suggestions of how to make it better, I'd be more than happy to see it evolve!

Run the code

Run GOL with a randomised seed.

gleam run

For testing purposes you can also play around with the following parameters in gol.gleam → run(run_time, intervall, total_time, initial, grid_size):

• run_time → set to 0 (determines the start time)

• intervall → update intervall in ms

• total_time → total program runtime in ms

• initial → determins the initial seeding condition. Can be one of the following:

  • Random → random seed
  • Glider → a Spaceship seed which moves from the top left to the bottom right corner of the grid
  • Blinker → the most simple static oscillator
  • and many more. Check lib/initial_conditions.gleam for more. NOTE: most of them are untestet!

  Happy coding! 😊