Game of life

Once again cellular automata. This time implementation of famous one – Game of Life.

Clcick image to download Game of Life.

What is that thingy?
One remarkable example of how simple principles can lead to great complexity. Rules are easy:

• Black (or “living”) cells are black, white cells hold 0 or no value.
• Cell become white if number of black neighbors is below 2 or above 3
• Cell becomes black if number of black neighbors equals 3
• Cell maintains it’s color if number of black neighbors equals 2

With this set great deal of possible configurations and forms can be achieved. Oscillators, puffers, gliders, space ships – those are classes of some specific configurations that can be found in Game of Life world.

In my implementation we have two tables – one is our visualized “world” and the other is needed for calculation of the next step. As always top is connected with bottom and left with right. Ctrl + j evaluate one step further.

Why?
IT IS SOOO SIMPLE! I couldn’t resist.

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