LED Cube 8x8x8

Step 69 PC Software: Effect 4, Conway's Game of Life 3D

The Game of Life, also known simply as Life, is a cellular automaton devised by the British mathematician John Horton Conway. You can read more about this on Wikipedia, if you haven't heard about it before.

By popular demand, we have implemented Game of Life in 3D on the LED cube.
To make it work in 3d the rules have to be tweaked a little:

• A dead cell becomes alive if it has exactly 4 neighbors
• A live cell with 4 neighbors live
• A live cell with 3 or fewer neighbors die
• A live cell with 5 or more neighbors die

The program starts by placing 10 random voxels in one corner of the cube, then the game of life rules are applied and the iterations started.

In the second video, we run the animation faster and seed with 20 voxels.

Comments

[mspearin]

I noticed that all the programing is done on a PC. could it be done on a MAC or will it not work?

[trunet]

it'll work just fine, just install XCode to have access to gcc and you'll be able to compile the serial controller software.