Grid games

I’m working on a visualisation for Advent of Code 2022, day 23: Unstable Diffusion. It’s a little similar to Conway’s Game of Life. I’ve written a bit about my approach here: Optimising Life, using advice from Quake. This page lets you set up the game, tweak how it runs, and get answers.

On the grid below, you can click cells to add and remove elves, or paste in one of the examples or a puzzle input and load it all in at once:

When you’re ready, you can:

Taking too long?

You can adjust the rounds per second:

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