Implementing Conway's Game of Life in JavaScript with

I don't think that thisGeneration and nextGeneration are as independent as you think they are. I suggest you replace the slice operations with a cell by cell copy and see if that resolves things.

Just wanted to share my (open source) version of the game of life, with a 3d UI that uses webgl.

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