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Conway's Game of Life

To play the game, click here!

How does the game work?

Conway's Game of Life is a famous cellular automata that simulates the evolution of a society made by very simple life forms.

The universe of the Game of Life constists in a two-dimensional grid of square cells, each of which can either be dead or alive.

When a generation passes, every cell interacts with its eight neighbours, which are horizontally, vertically or diagonally adjacent, changing it's state based on four different rules.

Rules

  • Any alive cell with less than two alive neighbours dies, as if caused by solitude.
  • Any alive cell with two or three alive neighbours lives on to the next generation.
  • Any alive cell with more than three alive neighbours dies, as if caused by overpopulation.
  • Any dead cell with exactly three alive neighbours becomes alive, as if caused by reproduction.

What's particular about this game?

While having very simple rules, this game becomes very interesting when studying and applying patterns.

A pattern is a starting configuration choosen by the user, which then evolves in a very interesting way. Even the simplest of patterns can evolve into something huge.

The game has also been classified Turing Complete by mathematicians, meaning that it can emulate a completely working computer.

Preview

Here's an example of how a pattern can evolve into something cool looking!

Example

In-game tools

This game's variant contains some tools to help you to track, evolve and setup your patterns.

  • Generation, population and status statistics
  • Completely automatic or step-by-step evolution
  • A "drawing" tool linked to your mouse
    • Simple click on a cell - Change the state of the cell
    • Prolonged left click - Change the state of hovered cells into alive
    • Prolonged right click - Change the state of hovered cells into dead

Contributing

Any contributions you make are greatly appreciated!

  1. Fork the Project
  2. Create your Feature Branch (git checkout -b feature/{FEATURE_NAME})
  3. Commit your Changes (git commit -m '{DESCRIPTION}')
  4. Push to the Branch (git push origin feature/{FEATURE_NAME})
  5. Open a Pull Request

License

Distributed under the GNU General Public License v3.0. See LICENSE for more information.