smoothlife

We have hosted the application smoothlife in order to run this application in our online workstations with Wine or directly.

Quick description about smoothlife:

Conway's Game of Life is generalized to a continuous domain. OpenGL and GLSL shaders are used for real-time 2D and 3D graphics. Time stepping is done via a real to complex FFT based convolution operation. There are also two deliberately simple test implementations in FreeBasic and Matlab. A 2D version on a sphere shows that it is really not dependent on the underlying grid.

Features:

• 1D, 2D and 3D with various visualization choices
• uses FFT for fast computation even for big neighborhoods
• change parameters in real-time and watch the effect
• parameters are saved and loaded easily, nothing is lost of your experiments
• uses the GPU for maximum performance, float precision is sufficient
• simple version in FreeBasic that should be transferable to any system or language
• small version in Matlab that shows the concept very clearly
• version on a sphere that proves the independence of the underlying grid
• version using SDL, that is the same for Windows, Linux and Mac (only source)

Audience: Science/Research, Education, Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop.

Programming Language: MATLAB, C++, BASIC, GLSL (OpenGL Shading Language).
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