Conway's Game of Life on the Glyph Matrix

PabloMF6

Finished creating Conway’s Game of Life on the Glyph Matrix!

This was pretty easy to do, thanks for the SDK and the example app!
A few things to consider though:
- The SDK and the example app do not have any license, so I cannot legally share the code. I’ve already notified the developers on the SDK GitHub repository. Once the license issue is addressed I’ll share the source code.
- The setMatrixFrame documentation does not specify which is the valid integer range for it. My guess is that it’s 0-255, but that makes the LEDs very dimm, so I used values of 1000. I think this is undefined behaviour however, setting the value to 1000000 makes the LED very bright, even beyond the selected brightness setting in the settings app. I have the feeling it is not capped.

Source and APK: https://github.com/PabloMK7/Game-Of-Life-Glyph-Toy

Scans: VitusTotal Koodous

Smii

Looks fantastic, and great to see some creation for the Glyph Matrix!

Apropos of nothing, the Figma image creation plugin linked in the SDK produces arrays with values between 0 and 4095, so I think that’s the intended min-max values for the LED brightness (The arrays are 12 bit)

Interesting catch on the license. Would that present issues for Play Store publication, do you think? (in the present form)

PabloMF6

Thank you!

That range of values make sense, that’s why 255 was too dimm. That probably should be added to the documentation at some point.

About the license, yeah that’s problematic as publishers would be technically breaking Nothing’s copyright due to missing licensing (tho, I doubt Nothing would be suing applications for using their SDK xP). In any case it’s pretty important that the SDK gets a license, maybe MIT or LGPLv3, but that has to be researched and decided by the legal team.

dev4223

Very nice♥️! How can I get it?
And one question: Is it a random starting set?

PabloMF6

dev4223 I will publish the source once the licensing issue is handled, then you can build it yourself.

The starting set is not random, it’s hardcoded to gosper gun, but I guess I could make it so that holding the button makes random cells alive to introduce chaos x)

Stereobasic

Ok this is the best looking toys I have seen from now. Was looking something that makes the dot screen alive and that’s exactly what it does. Love it a lot, thank you so much for your work !

CMF1_hacker

how did I miss this first time around? Excellent work on the LED brightness.