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Conway's Game of Life Model

What is it?

This is a model plugin for Evoplex and is included by default in the software.

It implements Conway's Game of Life cellular automaton.

How it works

The model runs in a lattice grid with Moore neighbourhood, i.e., each node interacts with its eight immediate neighbours.

Each node can be in one of two possible states: alive or dead.

At each step in time, each node updates its state based on the following rules:

  • If the node is alive and has less than two live neighbors: the node dies, as if by underpopulation.
  • If the node is alive and has two or three live neighbors: the node lives on to the next generation.
  • If the node is alive and has more than three live neighbors: the node dies, as if by overpopulation.
  • If the node is dead and has exactly three live neighbors: the node becomes alive, as if by reproduction.

Examples

The figure below shows a screenshot of an experiment in Evoplex using this model.

Example

How to cite

If you mention this model or the Evoplex software in a publication, please cite it as:

Marcos Cardinot, Colm O'Riordan, & Josephine Griffith. (2018). Evoplex: a powerful multi-agent system for networks. Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1340734

License

This plugin is licensed under the MIT License terms.