Conway's Life http://conwayslife.com The classic game of cellular automata Sat, 08 May 2010 20:25:36 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Site organization improvements http://conwayslife.com/site-organization-improvements/ http://conwayslife.com/site-organization-improvements/#comments Sat, 08 May 2010 19:31:41 +0000 John Haugeland http://conwayslife.com/?p=72 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> So, there are some site improvements.  :)

  • I’ve moved the various pages around into a heirarchy, to make the site easier to navigate.
  • I’ve separated the suggestions page into several pages, to keep the different topics from drowning one another out.
  • I’ve slightly improved our tiny Conway biography.  I do need to write something more; Conway deserves better treatment than those few sparse sentences.
  • The site menu now cascades to sub-pages, which will be important once the patterns and alt-rule lists start getting fleshed out.
  • Minor SEO improvements.
  • I’ve put our Facebook Conway Page and our Twitter Conway Feed into the sidebar link list, to make them easier to find.

This turns out to be a pretty fun site to set up.  :)

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]]> http://conwayslife.com/site-organization-improvements/feed/ 0 App Improvements http://conwayslife.com/app-improvements/ http://conwayslife.com/app-improvements/#comments Sat, 08 May 2010 04:39:31 +0000 John Haugeland http://conwayslife.com/?p=37 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> We’ve made some improvements!

  • We’ve added support for pre-defined patterns, and added a bunch of patterns to get the application off on the right foot.
  • We’ve streamlined the loader.  No more logo screen, no more menu, just right to the grid.
  • The evaluator has been sped up by more than 100%.
  • We’ve improved the interface.   It does more, and takes up less space.
  • Cells are now colored by their age.  This makes some neat looking patterns.

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]]> http://conwayslife.com/app-improvements/feed/ 0 Integrated twitter http://conwayslife.com/integrated-twitter/ http://conwayslife.com/integrated-twitter/#comments Sat, 17 Apr 2010 06:32:59 +0000 John Haugeland http://conwayslife.com/?p=11 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> I’ve integrated a twitter account with the blog.  Hopefully that keeps content at least marginally fresh.  :)

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]]> http://conwayslife.com/integrated-twitter/feed/ 0 Getting started :D http://conwayslife.com/getting-started/ http://conwayslife.com/getting-started/#comments Sat, 17 Apr 2010 06:31:20 +0000 John Haugeland http://conwayslife.com/?p=8 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> After holding this domain for several years, I’ve finally remembered that I contracted out a flash game here and forgot about both the game and the domain.  Fixing that now.  :)

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