GOL VS game-of-life-book

Thank you for the link to the book. I have always been interested in how to make the starting shapes. I am going to study the book more but started to realize that there are re-usable shapes that can be used to make more complex shapes (early, still, oscillators, gliders, etc..). This seems to be what I was looking for with the starting x/y and then the rule combo and pattern.

I was also thinking there must be a better way than knowing exactly how big the board is vs an infinite board. Also making the edges either always dead or alive VS letting the shapes pass through like pac-man.

Here is my horrible implementation using HTML canvas, JS/JQuery.

https://github.com/JoshuaMichaelHanson/GOL/blob/master/js/go...

Yes, I also made a new green account so as to not dox myself with my other accounts.

I drifted into the Conway's Life research community in 2001 when I won a small cash prize for a lucky discovery of something called a "boojum reflector". My involvement has gradually snowballed since then. Off and on I've helped maintain various Life-related mailing lists and blogs, the Life Lexicon, and more recently the conwaylife.com forums and LifeWiki.

Another thing I stumbled into was helping Nathaniel Johnson complete an improbably thorough 480-page Conway's Life textbook, with end-of-chapter exercises and everything. The book could be used to teach a college-level class on the subject. https://conwaylife.com/book/ has a free PDF download for the book.

So... I'm not the cleverest Lifenthusiast by a long shot, but for a random question about the Game of Life, I'm more likely to know something about it than at least 99.9999% of the world's population. Ask me anything!

maybe first several chapters of CGoL book (pdf is free) can be of help, as they concentrate a bit more on theorems and not just pattern engineering

* Download Golly https://golly.sourceforge.net/ and play around drawing random patterns. Have a look at the example patterns.

* Have a look around on the LifeWiki https://conwaylife.com/wiki/Main_Page. Click anything that looks interesting.

* Read the free online book https://conwaylife.com/book/

* Make an account on the forums https://conwaylife.com/forums/, or just lurk and see what people are talking about.

* Hang out on the Discord https://discord.gg/uA6uaGv3

You should definitely check out the official CGoL textbook - on the same site you'll also find the LifeWiki and links to download the Golly program

The book actually already has a CC license posted on its git repo, but we admittedly haven't made that clear on the main book website yet. We'll fix that up.