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The Game of Life has been around for more than 30 years now, so it seems kind of pointless to implement in Flash. However, Patrick Mineault used a technique which is quite clever and works around Flash's typically dog slow math operations and array access. He simply uses a custom filter combined with blend mode operators to populate the image map. As an extra afterimages can be displayed to give a better impression of the growing pixel folks.

The Game of Life and cellular automata using ConvolutionFilter:
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The graph above is a visual representation of typolis.net. It was done using the pretty online applet by sala. The flower like graph does not show link between different pages but the current single document model. (The two blue blossoms for example symbolize two alternative tag clouds on our frontpage).

See more siteshots like this at the related Flickr pool.

BumpTop is a physically-based casual interfaces using pen-centric interactions enriching the desktop metaphor with expressive, lightweight techniques found in the real world.