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Benvenuti! I’m YIN Renlong (尹仁龙), passionate about AI, computational theology, and digital humanities. Also active in web development and endurance cycling. Photographer since 2009, now an Oxford Clarendon Scholar.

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Exploring Cellular Automata Through Conway’s Game of Life Simulation

May 14, 2023September 13, 2026 ~ YIN Renlong

This is a simple script that creates a Conway’s Game of Life-based animation of text on a grid of LED lights. The main text is initially displayed on the LED grid, and after 15 seconds, it starts to disintegrate into a Game of Life pattern. The animation stops after 17 seconds.

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¹The first chemical equation in the background of this site shows the synthesis of ethyl acetate. I spent my childhood living at my uncle's chemical factory in Nanchang. Ethyl acetate is an essential raw material used in the production of pharmaceutical intermediates, and I feature it here to commemorate that innocent time.
²Special thanks to the HTML5 canvas project "Rotating Icosahedron" (by K3D).