https://github.com/shredengineer/hexacon

Conway's Game of Life on a Hexagonal Grid
https://github.com/shredengineer/hexacon

conways-game-of-life grid hexagonal html javascript jquery

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Conway's Game of Life on a Hexagonal Grid

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/shredengineer/hexacon
• Owner: shredEngineer
• Created: 2021-01-25T11:13:50.000Z (about 5 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2021-01-25T11:29:30.000Z (about 5 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-01-21T09:23:58.718Z (about 1 year ago)
• Topics: conways-game-of-life, grid, hexagonal, html, javascript, jquery
• Language: HTML
• Homepage:
• Size: 237 KB
• Stars: 0
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 1
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md

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# hexacon

Conway's Game of Life on a Hexagonal Grid (implemented in JavaScript)

Play around with it here: **https://paulwilhelm.de/hexacon.html** [*Epilepsy Warning*]

Discussion Thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/holofractal/comments/l4lmrl/enjoy_this_trippy_hexagonal_version_of_conways/

    I assume most of you know Conway's Game of Life -- a simple set of rules

    over a square digital grid that shows intriguing evolution and self-organization.

    Each cell's lifecycle is determined by its four or eight neighbours -- depending on the implementation.

    Now I figured that a hexagonal grid would be the most natural way to implement this.

    Why? Because in hexagonal coordinates, there is no ambiguity between the number of

    possible neighbors -- each cell is perfectly surrounded by exactly six neighbors.

    The results are quite trippy. :)

![Screenshot](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/shredEngineer/hexacon/main/Screenshot.png "Screenshot")