raganwald / cafeaulife

Gosper’s HashLife in CoffeeScript
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Allow life-like games based on Morgolus neighbourhoods #15

Open raganwald opened 12 years ago

raganwald commented 12 years ago

Need to carefully think whether we can use Gosper’s quadtrees. Consider 4x4:

1122
1122
4433

In generation 1, we can change 1, 2, 3, and 4. In generation 2, we do:

....
.55.
.55.
....

Thus, a 4x4 square has a velocity of 2. Need to ponder whether larger squares can decompose to 4x4.