Conway's Game of Life
2003-12-04 19:56![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fanfI wibbled a bit at this entry in the ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
lisp community, which prompted me to go and dig out my old Life implementation. I'm now wondering what is a fast way of turning a list of co-ordinates into an image on modern hardware and software. Plot them into a bitmap and then use BITBLT primitives to transfer it to the screen? Use a display list mechanism to get the graphics hardware to plot them?
Compared to my lightweight life algorithm the graphics is a beast. OTOH modern computers are so fast that you can probably plot only a tiny fraction of the generations and it'll look OK.
lisp community, which prompted me to go and dig out my old Life implementation. I'm now wondering what is a fast way of turning a list of co-ordinates into an image on modern hardware and software. Plot them into a bitmap and then use BITBLT primitives to transfer it to the screen? Use a display list mechanism to get the graphics hardware to plot them?Compared to my lightweight life algorithm the graphics is a beast. OTOH modern computers are so fast that you can probably plot only a tiny fraction of the generations and it'll look OK.
