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Build a working game of Tetris in Conway's Game of Life (2014)
Here is a theoretical question - one that doesn't afford an easy answer in any case, not even the trivial one. In Conway's Game of Life, there exist constructs such as the metapixel which allow th...
The render-to-gif feature is my favorite both because it took a ton of work to implement, so it was really satisfying when I finally cracked it at 7 in the morning, and because it makes it very easy to share VarLife constructs with others. Due to the "electron"-based nature of our computer, addition and subtraction are significantly easier to implement when the data is transmitted in serial little-endian (least-significant bit first) form. We built a low level language with similar syntax to Python, including a simple type system, subroutines supporting recursion and inline operators.
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