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Tweeting via Conway's Game of Life

Description

This is a computer based on Conway's Game of Life, which can print basic English letters or hard-coded pixels on its 32x32 display.

Inspiration

This project is forked from the remarkable work of Nicolas Loizeau's nicolasloizeau/scalable-gol-computer. However, the original implementation supports Assembly-based programming only. With this project, I've added an Assembly generator to make it easier to display characters and other shapes.

How to run

Golly is a free program for exploring Conway's Game of Life and many other types of cellular automata: Download from Sourceforge

Caution

Game of life computer uses a LOT of Ram and CPU. In order to run the scripts on this repository, make sure you have at least 16GB of Ram and 4 CPU cores.

After running the program, click File -> Run Script... and select one of the scripts on this repo.

Also, Python 3 should be installed. Note: On first run, Golly may not detect the system's Python installation. You will be prompted to manually specify the Python executable path.

Scripts

• universal.py: Universal Tweeter. Write your desired sentence and watch it being displayed. Warning: Keep the sentence very short. Longer sentences tend to use more than 256MB of Ram which is unavailable. Golly will throw a file not found error in that case.
• draw.py: Used to display hard-coded pixels. Useful when drawing a shape or non-English words. Again, use small designs to conserve memory.
• preview.py: Before attempting to run and display your drawing, you may want to preview the results on a 32x32 display. Run this script to generate an array of coordinates (for example [(11, 9), (11, 12), (11, 13),...]) and paste it in draw.py.
• hello.py and hi.py: Sample scripts to display hello and hi.

License

Feel free to use, modify, and distribute this project as permitted under the MIT license terms.