rhea

Rhea is a Conway's Game of Life simulator that I made in my free time. It's a simple project that I made to familiarize myself a bit more with Svelte. I liked the idea of creating a game of life simulator but I wanted to make it slightly different from others; instead of having an infinite grid I wanted to have a finite grid that would wrap around. This means that not all the patterns work the same way as they do in a normal game of life simulator. Different grid sizes create different spaceships and oscillators. The project includes the ability to save and load patterns, change the speed of the simulation, play/pause the simulation, and create a random pattern. That will most likely be reduced to simple oscillators. The patterns sections comes loaded with a couple of spaceships and a self destructing pattern. If you are using it on a desktop you can also use the 'q' and 'e' keys to rotate the selected pattern. And draw by pressing and holding the left mouse button and erase by pressing and holding the right For this project I also wanted to make the website be responsive and work on mobile devices. Which meant resizing the grid and moving the pattern section to a toggleable sidebar. The project is live and hosted on rhea.aornum.xyz and you can play around with it.

This was my second project using Svelte and I learned a lot about how to use it. I also learned a lot about how to make a website responsive so it could be used from mobile devices. Since I used CSS grid for the grid I had to learn how to make it responsive and resize the grid depending on the screen size.

I would probably use a different grid system. I used CSS grid for this project and it worked well but I think it would have been easier to use a canvas instead. I would also like to add more patterns to the default patterns section. A good addition might be a "store" where people can upload and select patterns made by others to play around with. I would also like to refine the controls to make it easier to use in mobile devices. But overall I was happy with how it turned out and it was a fun project to make.