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gsurma / game_of_life

game_of_life

NetLogo implementation of Conway's Game Of Life.

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What it is

NetLogo implementation of Conway's Game Of Life.

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Where it is used

No documented product use has been verified yet.

What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 5:04:57 PM UTC.

No direct repository links were found in the indexed HN discussions over the past seven days. Older discussions are available below.

Mentions over time

HN mentions by day2 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2019-06-02 11:26:55 UTC to 2019-06-29 13:05:17 UTC.

012019-06-02 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-06-03 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 commentsJun 22019-06-03 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-06-04 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-06-04 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-06-05 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-06-05 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-06-06 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-06-06 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-06-07 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-06-07 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-06-08 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-06-08 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-06-09 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-06-09 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-06-10 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-06-10 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-06-11 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-06-11 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-06-12 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-06-12 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-06-13 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-06-13 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-06-14 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-06-14 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-06-15 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-06-15 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-06-16 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsJun 152019-06-16 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-06-17 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-06-17 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-06-18 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-06-18 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-06-19 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-06-19 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-06-20 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-06-20 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-06-21 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-06-21 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-06-22 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-06-22 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-06-23 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-06-23 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-06-24 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-06-24 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-06-25 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-06-25 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-06-26 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-06-26 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-06-27 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-06-27 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-06-28 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-06-28 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-06-29 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-06-29 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-06-30 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsJun 29

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Jun 22019-06-02 00:00:00 UTC2019-06-03 00:00:00 UTC110
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What Hacker News says

2 sources
DonHopkins·Jun 29, 2019
I haven't tried it myself, but I've heard it's really cool, and have read people who've used it praising its virtues and discussing its limitations. It sounds like something I'd like, since it's great for agents and cellular automata. NetLogo – A multi-agent programmable modeling environment (northwestern.edu) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18180542 https://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/ Seymour Papert has died (mit.edu) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12201810 http://www.media.mit.edu/people/in-memory/papert You might also want to check out some of the stuff in these papers, one pretty old, and the other much more recent: “A Taxonomy of Simulation Software: A work in progress” from Learning Technology Review by Kurt Schmucker at Apple (1999). http://donhopkins.com/home/documents/taxonomy.pdf "Gadget Background Survey" by Chaim
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Gingold (who made Earth Primer), research he did at HARC for the Gadget project with Dan Ingalls (who made Squeak and Lively), which includes Alan Kay's favorites, Rockey’s Boots and Robot Odyssey, and Chaim's amazing SimCity Reverse Diagrams, and lots of great stuff I’d never seen before: Gadget Background Survey http://chaim.io/download/Gingold%20(2017)%20Gadget%20(1)%20S... Earth Primer https://www.earthprimer.com/ Experimental Gameplay Workshop 2015: Earth Primer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtsf3nRFfwk YOW! 2016 Dan Ingalls - Pronto: Toward a Live Designer's Notebook #YOW https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=if72CFsF_SY The following NetLogo HN links didn't get as much discussion as they deserved, but here they are: Show HN: NetLogo Implementation of Conway's Game of Life (github.com) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20074810 https://github.com/gsurma/game_of_life Biological Simulations (NetLogo, 2008) [pdf] (northwestern.edu) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18188139 https://ccl.northwestern.edu/2008/colosimo_paper.pdf Linking NetLogo with Python [pdf] (surrey.ac.uk) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18185528 http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/21/2/4/4.pdf NetLogo: Design and Implementation of a Multi-Agent Modeling Environment (2004) [pdf] (northwestern.edu) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18177290 https://ccl.northwestern.edu/papers/agent2004.pdf Distributed Channel Assignment in Dense WLAN Networks Using NetLogo (thinkmind.org) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18173939 https://www.thinkmind.org/download.php?articleid=icas_2014_2... NetLogo (programmable modeling env for simulating natural and social phenomena) [pdf] (northwestern.edu) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18170128 http://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/docs/NetLogo%20User%20Ma... Cellular Automata for Pathfinding in NetLogo (cestlaz.github.io) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10921012 Updated link that works: https://cestlaz.github.io/posts/2016-01-17-maze-ca.html/ Cellular Automata, NetLogo and real problems https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10913564 Updated link that works: https://cestlaz.github.io/posts/2016-01-15-shift-image.html/ Some more links and discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18496880
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