another Game of Life question (infinite grid)?
问题 I have been playing around with Conway's Game of life and recently discovered some amazingly fast implementations such as Hashlife and Golly. (download Golly here - http://golly.sourceforge.net/) One thing that I cant get my head around is how do coders implement the infinite grid? We can't keep an infinite array of anything, if you run golly and get a few gliders to fly off past the edges, wait for a few mins and zoom right out, you will see the gliders still there out in space running away,