Conway’s Game of Life coming to a Flex app near you.

Pledge drive: Help me help 360|Flex who is helping me

The 360|Flex conference is coming up soon - March 8-10 in San Jose. It seems that John and Tom - the organizers - have everything ready to go except for one little item: getting a sponsor for the USB Thumbdrive that comes in the swag-bag. They offered it to me but it's a little out of my marketing budget for RunPee.com - which is zero dollars. But they are on the hook either way so we worked out a deal. I'll start a pledge drive and try to raise as much money as I can to cover the cost of sponsoring the thumbdrive - $1,300 target. In exchange they will put RunPee.com on it. I'm not on the hook for anything except trying to raise money to cover their costs so that they don't take a loss.

We would all appreciate it if you chipped in a few bucks. I will give every dollar donated to my Paypal account to 360|Flex up until the conference is over. Let me know if you would like for your donation to be public or not because I'll keep a running tab on this page of who donated and how much.

Paypal donations to: Dan@polyGeek.com

Thanks for your support,
Dan Florio, John Wilker, Tom Ortega.

Dan Florio ( that's me )-$100, Lee Button-$100, Randy Troppmann-$100, David Ortinau-$50, Faisal Abid Founder-$55, Pintley.com-$50, Douglas Reynolds Consulting-$50, Nick Kwiatkowski-$25, Patrick McDonald-$10, Jeremy Saenz-$25, Ivan Alvarez-$25, Jen Floyd-$10, Matt LeGrand-$25, Jens Brynildsen-$25, Gates M Stoner-$20, Emerson Tyler Wright-$50, John Daily-$10, Jason Fincanon-$25, Evan Zeimet-$20 Here is a complete list of the people who have donated

Conway’s Game of Life coming to a Flex app near you.

October 5th, 2008 . by polygeek

Have you ever heard of Conway’s Game of Life? Quetwo has created a Flex app that plays through the rules that Conway made up. What you see may look like a grid of black and white squares turning off and on but watch it play out over time and it starts to look sort of organic, almost viral. That’s life.

I’m a huge fan of stuff like that. If I were independenly wealthy I’d probably spend most of my days exploring mathematical topics such as that.

Years ago I created a one-dimensional version of the Game of Life using AS2 – oh, so slow by today’s standards.

And along those lines is a Flex app that creates a Sierpinski triangle by choosing random numbers.

Addendum:
Quasimondo – Mario Klingeman – has created a really cool version of the Game of Life using bitmaps and filters, complete with source code. Check it out.

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