I spent most of today coding. I went from a blank canvas to drawing random squares constantly to a working acorn pattern animation.
The Mozilla Developer Pages were the best resource. The have all of the great javascript knowledge.
- Canvas API: Basic Animations
- Game Anatomy
- And many others for random questions about including how to do deep copies of arrays.
You can see my implementation of Conway's Game of Life or read through the documented source code.
Not sure if I'll add the ability to pause or to draw or do the TODO refactorings I have listed in the code. I'll leave that decision for tomorrow.
/Nat