Hi, Glad you had a go! The program's speed depends on the size of the board, not the number of objects, because it to calculate whether a live cell dies or a dead cell comes to life.
Regards, -- Kam-Hung Soh http://kamhungsoh.blogspot.com - It Mostly Works http://members.optusnet.com.au/khsoh - Software That Mostly Works --- In svg-developers@yahoogroups.com, Darryl Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Interesting application! I get about 7 frames per second on my AMD-64 > 3200 CPU, with about 40 objects instantiated. > > Kam-Hung Soh wrote: > > >Between driving 2 * 650 km, amusing the kids and visiting my in-laws > >over the Easter break, I managed to put together an SVG version of > >John Conway's Game of Life: > > > >http://members.optusnet.com.au/khsoh/0009.xhtml > > > >The interesting bits are: > > > > * Using SVG lines to create a raster by twiddling the lines' > >stroke-dasharray attribute. > > * Making the demonstration work for Firefox and Opera 9 was > >straightfoward, but I had no idea how to make it work for MSIE + ASV > >because MSIE does not support the DOM function createElementNS(). > > * The demonstration ran like a dog until I spent some time > >optimzing the Javascript code. It's still not blazing fast but I can't > >think of any more tricks. > > > >I picked up the stroke-dasharray tip from Kevin Lindsey and Martin > >Honnen showed me how to use ASV's SVGDocument properly. > > > >Thanks! > > > > > > > ----- To unsubscribe send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -or- visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers and click "edit my membership" ---- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
