The Game Of Life

This repository contains a representation of the game of life automata built using vanilla ES6 Javascript for the Object-Oriented Programming course at the BOV academy.

The project relies on the HTML5 Canvas element for the aesthetics and Web Workers to do the onerous task of computing cellulars' status.

The base namespace used to define the references to the elements involved into the process is gofl

The main class constructor accepts an HTMLCanvasElement and an optional config file with the following properties:

• randomColors - (default false) - If true it sets random colors to each new pixel
• randomPixels - (default 1000) - Defines the value of the initial random pixels
• A canvas object with the following properties:
  • width - (default 800 pixels) - The final width of the main canvas
  • height - (default 500 pixels) - The final height of the main canvas
  • fullScreen - (default false) - If true it makes the canvas' size to the entire viewport
  • showGrid - (default true) - If true it draws a grid
  • showGridAtStartup - (default true) - If true it draws a grid at startup
  • showFps - (default false) - If true it shows a tooltip containing the current Frames per Second rate
• A pixel object with the following properties:
  • width - (default 10) - The pixel's width
  • height - (default 10) - The pixel's height
  • bgcolor - (default #000) - A string representing a RGB color for pixels
• A timeFrame object with the following properties:
  • record - (default false) - If true it records each frame during execution
  • show- (default false) - If true it shows the timeFrame
  • $element - (default an element with ID gofl__timeFrame )
  • useSnapshot - (default false) - If true the system will take snapshots
• A snapshots object with the following properties:
  • scale - (default 0.3) - A value between 0.1 and 1 which defines a scale factor for the snapshots
  • quality - (default 0.5) - A value between 0.1 and 1 which defines the snapshots' quality
• A splash object with the following properties:
  • showSplash - (default true) - If true the system shows a splash intro
  • text - (default The Game of Life) - A string for the splash intro
  • fontFamily - (default "Holtwood One SC", Futura, Helvetica, sans-serif)
  • fontSize - (default 70)
  • isUpperCase - (default true) - If true it makes the text upperCase
  • useMusicEffect - (default true) - If true it reproduces a music effect at startup
• A musicEffect object with the following properties:
  • path - (default public/light-bulb.wav) - The path of a music file
  • volume - (default 0.3) - Set the audio's volume. Use a number between the range [0.1 - 1] where 0.1 indicates 10% of the volume and 1 indicates 100%.

---

Click the following link to see a Demo

---

Copyright 2017 © Gabriele Romeo

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
SOFTWARE.