[Vm-dev] Tangential: A Lisp Interpreter Implemented in Conway's Game of Life

[Yoshiki Ohshima]

I think I once made a Morph called LifeMorph, that used the BitBlt magic
Tim mentioned. That was pretty fast 20 years ago.

I can't say I have the code handy, but I do find it mentioned here for
example.

https://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/2000

On Mon, Jan 16, 2023 at 12:01 PM karl ramberg <karlramberg at gmail.com> wrote:

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> Very cool. I would not volunteer to refactor that :-D
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> It's tricky to get high performance GameOfLife in Squeak.
> Here is a morph I worked on. I use an array as data structure.
> Each cell is an integer.
> Neighbouring cells alive are 0 to 8 and alive cell are 10 + neighbours.
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> It gets a decent framerate.
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> Best,
> Karl
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> On Mon, Jan 16, 2023 at 5:43 PM Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com>
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>> A fabulous example of Turing completeness and by far the most
>> sophisticated Life system I’ve seen.
>> https://woodrush.github.io/blog/posts/2022-01-12-lisp-in-life.html
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>> The video is here:
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>> [image: youtube-ss.png]
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>> _,,,^..^,,,_ (phone)
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-- Yoshiki
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