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| e y 6 e s : home interface panel : lifeslide |
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Download class files and documentation: 'lifeslide.zip' Download source code: 'lifeslidesrc.zip' |
LifeSlide is a slide show applet based on The Game of Life: a cellular automaton invented around 1970 by mathematician John Conway. The applet loads its images asynchronously in a dedicated thread. Because the source images are small and monochromatic, they load very quickly; there should be no perceptible delay aside from the time allotted to display the image, and to run the Life algorithm. |
The applet accepts foreground color, background color, and number of images as applet parameters. The images are loaded in the sequence {1.gif, 2.gif, 3.gif... numImages.gif} from the host document directory. For this example, I converted most of the photographs from my old home page for use as source images; however, I also threw in a classic Life pattern: the original Glider Gun. |