Conway's Game of Life w/ FFmpeg

#ffmpeg #lifegame #animation

You can play "Conway's Game of Life" with FFmpeg command line tool. I'm not kidding.

Let's generate GIF animation with worldsize=60x60 generation=500.

$ ffmpeg -f lavfi -i life=s=60x60 -vframes 500 lifegame.gif

OK, here is decorated version:

$ ffmpeg -f lavfi -i life=s=60x60:life_color=00ff00:ratio=.5 \
  -sws_flags neighbor -vf scale=360:360,drawgrid=w=6:h=6 \
  -vframes 500 lifegame.gif

Enjoy!

Top comments (4)

Ah cool!

Is this just an Easter egg?

FYI: "life source" was available from anchent version 0.9 (commitlog). The author said "proof of concept" (ml-post) :D