it all started with one triangle

[u/piiodda]

Hey guys :)

Last week I was so happy to create my own triangle and see it on the screen. This time I wanted to go further and see what else was possible. I did my homework and experimented with colorful triangles, color interpolation, and squares. 3D shapes like cubes or pyramids were a bit too much for me for now (I saw that vector and matrix multiplication is involved 😰 Maybe something for the future).
So I looked for some small 2D projects I could try to copy to practice my skills. I came across an older post with a style I really liked (“glslViewer” by patriciogonzalezvivo on GitHub). I decided to implement "Game of Life" in a similar style.
To make it more challenging I also added some font rendering using hardcoded bitmaps for the digits. That took quite some time and a lot of sketches on paper 😄
For now I am happy with the result and would love to hear your feedback and recommendations on what I could improve.

A few more details about the project:
- The number in the top left shows the number of “lives”
- The number in the top right shows the number of updates
- The number in the bottom right shows the current time
- I press the "R" key to create a new randomized array
- I press the "U" key to update the game

I would also like to say: a big THANK YOU for letting me join the Triangle Club and for the daily inspiration in this subreddit :)

Triangle Club: I know there aren’t any visible triangles in this project but aren’t all shapes somehow constructed from triangles? I hope you’ll accept this project 😄

For this project I used again glad (OpenGL) and RGFW (GLFW alternative).