MergeLife on a monochrome OLED

[eulphean]

Hi Jeff,

I was wondering if it's possible to use MergeLife on a monochromatic OLED. Since, each cell is RGB, would it be possible to show it in only Black & White. Game of Life is probably like that and that's possible. Are there other variations/genetic codes that could work as well?

Thanks,
Amay

[jeffheaton]

Hello @eulphean , yes that could be done. A flag for that in the JavaScript renderer could be added to request monocrome display. There are several ways that could be done to maximize visual appeal. If there is a large background area, like many of the spaceship MergeLife based rules I've created, then it would be good to set the background to white and anything that is not the background to black. That would give the most "game of life" appearance. The other option is simply use the "merged grid" and anything above a threshold is black, otherwise white.