#Conway's classic game of life - TUI lib demo

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split rampart
thorn bough
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Can you use the mouse to set up initial kife-forms? eg to build https://playgameoflife.com/lexicon/Gosper_glider_gun

Gosper glider gun - John Conway’s Game of Life

The first known gun, and indeed the first known
finite pattern displaying infinite growth, found by Bill Gosper in
November 1970. This period 30 gun remains the smallest known gun in
terms of its bounding box, though some variants of the p120
Simkin glider gun have a lower population. Gosper later constructed
several other guns, such as new gun ...

split rampart
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yeah I need to get to TUI mouse input, I was sticking to keys so far... I could also make the edit keyboard based for started

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there is a -glider option to start with just a glider instead of random 🙂

split rampart
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I added mouse click to set elements in 0.24.0 - though having double resolution means you need to click multiple time to set the right pixel