Suggestion on how to code the Conway's Game of Life

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fbedussi

I tried to code the famous Game of Life on Bangle.js but I got stuck.

The first attempt was to use an array to do the math and then convert it into an image to print to the screen, but it seems that an array of 240*240 (57600) booleans doesn't fit in memory... to tell the truth only a 30*30 long array fits in (seems strange to me, 57600 boolean should be 7.125kB).

The second attempt was to manipulate pixels directly via g.setPixel and g.getPixel, but it turns out that g.getPixel doesn't work on Bangle.js.

I run out of ideas... any suggestion?

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NebbishHacker in reply to @fbedussi

Were you using a regular JS array? Regular JS arrays and booleans have a lot of space overhead - the most space efficient option would be to use an Uint8Array, and then access the individual bits of each byte using bitwise operations.

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