Creative Code: Game of Life Clock

June 2022

I had always found John Conway’s Game of Life interesting fand implementing it into this assignment would not only be a challenge, but also teach me more about an integral part of coding history. I chose the clock because I found it to be the most experimental prompt, which would allow me to use the game of life as a base and not rely on it too heavily in the final creative outcome. There isn’t much about this project that isn’t already mentioned in my notes in the sketch, in particular though I think this process taught me a lot about perseverance, initially when I looked at my reference code I couldn’t understand what anything did, however after continuous study and only writing lines when I fully understood what they did, I was finally able to grasp the core concepts and use them to enact my creative intent.