All the sites I found for playing with the simulation had Java applets on them, so I wanted to make a javascript one, I know it’s not a true implementation, because it goes a bit mental at the edges… but it was interesting anyway…

It’s here anyway if anyone wants to play… The timings might be a bit of a problem if you create a huge grid with small squares… so be prepared for Internet Exploder to give you some memory leak issues…

http://dom111.co.uk/files/gameOfLife/gameOfLife.html

Edit: Updated links.

It’s pretty simple so far, and is only a few hundred KB, but I think it’s got some cool features, and maybe even potential.

Like the other stuff it’s under a Creative-Commons SA license and can be found at:

http://mod-framework.googlecode.com/.

Any opinions, suggestions, contributions would be gratefully received.

Current functionality:

Model-View-Controller system
MySQL support (using a modified version of the DB class from earlier)
script/server implementation in PHP
Helper association, so if you create a PageHelper class for your Pages controller all the functions will automatically be made ‘global’ (accessible view functionname() instead of Helper::functionname())
Includes mootools in the htdocs folder

The DB doesn’t work quite how I would have imagined it to (well, with PHP 5.3 it might… but I haven’t got it yet…) so currently any models are added to $GLOBALS[] so that for a Page model, $GLOBALS['Page']->find_by_name(‘dom’), etc would work.

There’s probably some other stuff in there too…

Who knows… But maybe I’ll keep a log of all the cool stuff I find…