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The Game of Life is a cellular automaton, devised by British mathematician John Horton Conway in 1970.
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The Game of Life is a cellular automaton, devised by British mathematician John Horton Conway in 1970.
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/jkeresman01/conway-s-game-of-life-
- Owner: jkeresman01
- Created: 2024-05-05T18:02:29.000Z (8 months ago)
- Default Branch: main
- Last Pushed: 2024-09-17T20:19:58.000Z (4 months ago)
- Last Synced: 2024-09-18T03:19:13.069Z (4 months ago)
- Topics: cellular-automata, conway-s-game-of-life, cpp, sfml
- Language: C++
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- Size: 8.1 MB
- Stars: 0
- Watchers: 1
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 0
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
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# Conway's Game of Life! #
The Game of Life, also known simply as Life, is a cellular automaton devised by the British mathematician John Horton Conway in 1970. It is a zero-player game, meaning that its evolution is determined by its initial state, requiring no further input. In this particular instance, the initial configuration is generated randomly, with each cell having a 20% chance to be alive and an 80% chance to be dead.
At each step in time (in this case, every 2 seconds), the following transitions occur:
* Any live cell with fewer than two live neighbors dies, as if by underpopulation.
* Any live cell with two or three live neighbors lives on to the next generation.
* Any live cell with more than three live neighbors dies, as if by overpopulation.
* Any dead cell with exactly three live neighbors becomes a live cell, as if by reproduction.
## Game Preview ##
## Running the game ##
If the version of SFML that you want to install is available in the official repository, then install it using your package manager.
For example, on Debian, Ubuntu you would do:
``` shell
sudo apt-get install libsfml-dev
```
Now you will need to compile the program:
``` shell
g++ -std=c++17 -c *.cpp
```
In case you installed SFML to a non-standard path, you'll need to tell the compiler where to find the SFML headers:
``` shell
g++ -std=c++17 -c *.cpp -I/include
```
You must then link the compiled file to the SFML libraries in order to get the final executable.
``` shell
g++ *.o -o game-of-life -lsfml-graphics -lsfml-window -lsfml-system
```
You can now execute the compiled program:
``` shell
./game-of-life
```
### Build and run the game with CMake ###
Install SFML using your package manager, for example, on Debian, Ubuntu you would do:
``` shell
sudo apt-get install libsfml-dev
```
Clone the repository
``` shell
git clone https://github.com/jkeresman01/Conway-s-Game-of-Life-
```
Build and Run the game:
``` shell
cd Conway-s-Game-of-Life-
mkdir build && cd build
cmake ..
make
./game-of-life
```
## Useful Resources ##
| Resource | Link |
|-------------------------------------------------------------|-------------------------------------------------------------------|
| Wikipedia: Conway's Game of Life | [Link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_Game_of_Life) |
| YouTube: Conway's Game of Life | [Link](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgOcEZinQ2I) |
| SFML: Documentation | [Link](https://www.sfml-dev.org/tutorials/2.6/start-linux.php) |