On: Show HN: HTML5 Game of Life in 24-bit RGB

[TazeTSchnitzel]

24 parallel games combined in a way indecipherable to normal human eyes isn't terribly interesting to me.

I find SmoothLife more interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJe9H6qS82I

[lgas → TazeTSchnitzel]

If you watch it for a while the patterns in each layer stablize and you end up with a stable overall pattern. It's often very easy to discern blinkers, beacons, gliders and the like.

[TazeTSchnitzel → lgas]

You can only see them on games occupying higher bits, however. Lower bits (like the 1 or 2 bits, for example) can't be seen by the naked eye.