# Show HN: Hexagonal Game of Life Explorer

> Source: <https://sidem.github.io/HexLife/>
> Published: 2026-07-21 17:04:23+00:00

I've been working on this Game of Life Explorer Webapp for a couple of years now (later with LLM assistance). It's a browser-based simulator for hexagonal cellular automata where you can design, clone, mutate and evolve rulesets. I'm using Rust/WASM, WebGL2 and Web Workers to get the highest possible performance despite running on a Web browser. I put a lot of effort and time into fleshing out the functionality to make it as easy and enjoyable to use as possible. Granted it takes a special kind of curiosity to enjoy playing around with Cellular Automata.

The features I enjoy the most:

- Constraining Rulesets to Rotational Symmetry

- Cloning and Mutating Rulesets

- Coloring Cells based on the Rule that caused their current state

Intentional limitations:

- Hexagonal Grid with a maximum size of 576x666 toroidally wrapped

- binary states

- neighbourhood distance of 1

Everything is 100% open-source, I really appreciate feedback.

Comments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48995088](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48995088)

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