https://github.com/nhathout/gameoflife

A Windows Forms implementation of Conway’s Game of Life with step-through, start/stop, and click-to-edit cells.
https://github.com/nhathout/gameoflife

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A Windows Forms implementation of Conway’s Game of Life with step-through, start/stop, and click-to-edit cells.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/nhathout/gameoflife
• Owner: nhathout
• Created: 2025-04-23T23:27:33.000Z (over 1 year ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2025-04-23T23:30:11.000Z (over 1 year ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-04-27T00:59:16.774Z (about 1 year ago)
• Topics: csharp, windows-forms
• Language: C#
• Homepage:
• Size: 31.3 KB
• Stars: 0
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md

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# GameOfLife

*A fully interactive C# /.NET Windows Forms recreation of Conway’s classic cellular-automaton.*

![Screenshot of the running form](images/lab5.png)

## At a Glance

- **50 × 25 grid** (20 px cells)  

- **Draw with the mouse:** left-click toggles cells **on**, right-click toggles **off**  

- **One-shot step**, **continuous play**, **stop**, and **clear** controls  

- Built-in **timer** (1 s interval) for smooth animation  

- Double-buffered rendering for flicker-free graphics

## Getting Started

### Prerequisites

- Visual Studio 2022 (or later) with the **.NET Desktop Development** workload  

- .NET Framework 4.8 (or retarget to any Windows Forms-capable framework)