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synchrony ·
I ran into a limit of 20 pixels by 20 pixels when I attempted a high resolution mod of conway game of life- I don't know whether the array can only store 400 values or whether the display can only show that many, is it possible to do a higher resolution?
The game of life mod is quite fun to run, check it out :
trogluddite ·
It will be the draw loops that are limiting it; there is a maximum number of iterations per ReDraw.
mwvdlee ·
trogluddite wrote: It will be the draw loops that are limiting it; there is a maximum number of iterations per ReDraw.
Limit is roughly 1000. On occassion you can get past it, but generally "1000" seems to be the magic number. So 31x31 would be the maximum grid size when using draw loops.
Check out my Missing Links set (Missing Links) or here (Breaking the Draw Loop limit) to escape from the draw loop limitations (at the cost of some performance).
If you've seperated logic from display, you might also be able to split up the display into a number of independant rectangular views, each rendering a specific portion of the whole image. That might break through the limit too.
Also, check this (Conway's Game of Life) for another conway GoL implementation (not breaking draw limitation, but might be interresting to see a different take on the same problem).
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