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Stacked Game of Life

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https://github.com/vnglst/stacked-game-of-life

HN · launched Feb 28, 2026 · 195 upvotes (top 6%) · 0 views

Niche: scientific and system simulation software · 74 launches, 2 in the last 7 days · Explore this niche →

Category and tags
  • Horizontal
  • B2C
  • Not AI
  • Hobby / open-source project

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Could you build this?

Yes It is Conway's Game of Life extended into a 3D isometric stack of historical generations, straightforwardly implemented using Three.js or HTML5 2D/3D canvas.

Discussion

20 comments analyzed.

Competitors mentioned: 3Delight API for implicit surfaces, Blender for 3D rendering, conwaylife.com resources

Concerns raised: Visualization gets tricky with larger hashlife patterns (metacells), Top layer visualization confusing - oscillators look like different patterns from above, Browser compatibility issues (didn't work first time in Chrome/macOS)

Feature requests: Distinguish top layer with different color or outline for top-down viewing, Support for larger hashlife patterns visualization

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 265 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #16 of 266 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 122 days after the earliest competitor.

  • Game-HTML · github · 2026-10-27 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.50
  • life_quests · github · 2026-09-20 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.49
  • Threej games · hn · 2026-05-02 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.46
  • .github · github · 2026-10-19 · 121 upvotes · similarity 0.42
  • TicTacToe · github · 2026-09-18 · 20 upvotes · similarity 0.41
  • game-planning-showcase · github · 2026-10-07 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.41
  • worldspring · github · 2026-10-05 · 30 upvotes · similarity 0.41
  • .github · github · 2026-10-19 · 72 upvotes · similarity 0.41

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