Mini Game of Life

README.md

A Game of Life engine in 126 bytes

Demo available on http://xem.github.io/miniGameOfLife

annotated.js

/* The Game of Life function */
// @param s: current state of the grid
// @param d: size of the grid (d*d)
// @param n: placeholder
// @param k: placeholder
// @param m: placeholder
// @param i: placeholder
// @param j: placeholder
function(s, d, n, k, m, i, j){
  for(
    n = [],                           // Initialize next state
    m = [d + 1, d, d - 1, 1],         // Initialize the upper half of the neighbours indexes
    i = d * d;                        // For each cell
    i--;
    n[i] = k == 3 || s[i] && k == 2,  // Set next state (live if it has 3 neighbours or lives and has 2 neighbours)
    k = 0                             // Reset the count of living neighbours
  )
  for(j in m)                         // for each neighbour position
    k += s[i + m[j]] + s[i - m[j]]    // count the living neighbours
  return(n)                           // return the next state
}

index.js

function(f,c,d,h){for(var g=[],e=[c+1,c,c-1,1],b=c*c;b--;g[b]=3==d||f[b]&&2==d,d=0)for(h in e)d+=f[b+e[h]]+f[b-e[h]];return g}

LICENSE.txt

            DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE
                    Version 2, December 2004

 Copyright (C) 2011 YOUR_NAME_HERE <YOUR_URL_HERE>

 Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim or modified
 copies of this license document, and changing it is allowed as long
 as the name is changed.

            DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE
   TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION

  0. You just DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO.

package.json

{
  "name": "miniGameOfLife",

  "description": "The smallest Game of Life engine of all time",

  "keywords": [
    "game",
    "life"
  ]
}

test.html

<a href="http://xem.github.io/miniGameOfLife">Demo</a>

Could that work?

g=function(f,c,g,d,e,b,h){g=[];e=[c+1,c,c-1,1];for(b in f){d=0;for(h in e)d+=f[b+e[h]]+f[b-e[h]];g[b]=3==d||f[b]&&2==d}return g}

Sadly, no. But I don't know why exactly.