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GPULife - 1.0

conway's life screensaver written as a pixel shader

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All Time:	(2.7)
Version 1.0:	(2.7)
Selected Version:	1.0
Release Date:	2005-05-16
License:	Freeware
Downloads (version 1.0):	1,304
Downloads (all versions):	3,205
Price:	free

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Product Description:

GPULife is a screensaver which displays Conway's Game of Life, implemented entirely as an OpenGL shader. As a result, it uses almost no CPU power as it runs, and it can achieve very high framerates.

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
Mac OS X 10.3.9
Mac OS X 10.3

Additional Requirements:

Mac OS X 10.3 or later

Feedback Summary:

Version 1.0:
Overall Rating:	(2.7)	Features:	(2.5)	Support:	(3.0)
Ease of Use:	(4.5)	Quality / Stability:	(3.0)	Price:	(5.0)

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Amazingly good life implementation - Version: 1.0, 7/31/2005 09:13PM PST

drappleyea_dotmac

I really love life screensavers. There are good ones out that that are beautiful but just suck down CPU power to render them. This looks even better, with minimal CPU usage.

Running on a ATI Radeon 9600, I'm getting about 40fps running 1600x1200 with a 2x zoom. Changing the zoom down to 1x drops the rate down to 10fps, but at 1 cell/pixel, there's a LOT going on on the screen.

Extremely cool.

crashes and not very interesting - Version: 1.0, 5/19/2005 11:16PM PST

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Giraffe Man

im a fan of retro graphics, but this is more like TV static than watching artificial life systems.

crashes on tiger in seconds...

I don't think it's working right for me - Version: 1.0, 5/16/2005 04:36PM PST

joshlocker101

All I get is more and more white dots on a black background, no colors, no death. I am familiar with the Life concept, and I assume that it just isn't working right for me. I have a 12" PowerBook with a GeForce4 MX card, 32MB VRAM, running a fresh installation of Tiger, OpenGL version 1.4.0.

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I don't think it's working right for me