Conway's Game Of Life

[richard]

this is my ccitt16 crc code , i feed every byte in the cell array into it and store result in ring buffer after first testing to see if the new crc exists more than once in the buffer buffer, if its there more than once [or twice if you like] thats it game over.

this is a ccit 16 crc routine


crc var word
crc_in var byte
j var byte




to use   set crc  to $ffff


then set crc_in to each value to be crc'ed
and gosub crc16

when finished crc hold the crc value


don't forget to reset crc to $ffff for next time












crc16:     
      crc= crc ^  crc_in 
      for j=0 TO 7
         if (crc&1)  THEN
           crc= ((crc>>1) ^ $a001 )   ;
         else
           crc= crc>>1;
         ENDIF  
      NEXT
RETURN

[retepsnikrep]

As video.

Colour 'Life' on tiny 12F1840.

[richard]

my first venture into youtube

life on pic18f26k22@64mhz on 32x64 red,green p10 led panel , with word seeds

[Ioannis]

Just amazing!

Although I never fully understood that "game" your work looks impressive, especially on this P10 display in wide format.

Nice job that video on YouTube also!

Ioannis

[retepsnikrep]

Very nice Richard. What LED's are those?

Did my thread resurrection encourage you.. LOL

Can we have a look at your 2048 led code? In particular the word seeds....

Thanks and very cool.

[richard]

Very nice Richard. What LED's are those?

i'm not absolutely sure , sheldon (longpole) provided me with them in exchange for code to drive them
they are twocolour p10 modules 16x32

Did my thread resurrection encourage you.. LOL

in deed , when i discovered the crc idea for stagnation i had to try it out

Can we have a look at your 2048 led code? In particular the word seeds....

i got that wrong its 16x64 ie 1024 leds , it was 32x32 and i got a bit crossed up.
32x32 was no good for displaying the text seeds

the display buffers use 1 bit per led per colour the nextgen buffer is byte size per pixel to make calcs easier

since sheldon "comissioned" the base pbp code i will leave it to him to release it into the wild

the display in the video is done in C my preferred language
i can post it if its useful to anyone\
ps
the modules are quite tricky to drive and use a fair bit processor time constantly to maintain the pov illusion that looks like a display
using 1 colour i got 15.6 fps, 2 not so good so far.
i have not finished measuring or optimising it yet

[retepsnikrep]

I now have some text capability on my 16x16 Led 12F1840 'Life' setup.

Ok it's static boring at the moment 5 byte x 8 bit font, but I also need to work out scrolling etc.

Useful for menus and changing settings etc.

I also want to implement a graphic bargraph type display for menus and parameters settings using the three push buttons.

More digging in the pbpro forum archives needed.