The Game of Life

A simple script to simulate and visualiza John Conway's game of life.

Description

This project is a very simplescript that simulates and draws the result to a Pygame window to be able to see them.

Getting Started

Dependencies

• Python 3
• Ubuntu (or any other Unix system)

Installing

Python version

• Clone the repository
• pip install -r requirements.txt

C++ version

• Clone the repository
• sudo apt get install libsfml-dev
• (in C++ improved version folder) make
• ./output.exe

Executing program

• python3 index.py <winwo-size-px> <number-of-rows> <delay-in-seconds>

Help

This script at the moment only runs in Unix, running it in Windows might result in errors.

Authors

@marc-marcos

Version History

• 0.1
  • C++ version, very basic
• 0.2
  • Python version, still terminal based, better code
• 0.3
  • Pygame implemented, graphical output
• 0.4
  • C++ graphical version done. Runs ~6.5 times faster than the 0.3 Python version.

License

This project is licensed under the GPL License - see the LICENSE.md file for details