GOL - Game of Life

Simple implementation of Conway's Game of Life using Pygame and Numpy

Running the game

You need to install the requirements (numpy and pygame). It's recommended that you do this inside a Python virtual environment:

python3 -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate
pip3 install -r requirements.txt

You can run the game as follows:

./gol.py

Note that the game starts paused and with a blank board. See below.

Controls

• Use the left mouse click to toggle cells.
• Use the mouse wheel to speed up/slow down time.
• Press ESC to quit.

Options

You can configure a few options using the command line. Running ./gol.py --help will print a list of the supported arguments:

> ./gol.py --help
usage: gol.py [-h] [--rows ROWS] [--cols COLS] [--theme {default,grid,heatmap,heatmapgrid}] [--resx RESX] [--resy RESY]

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --rows ROWS           Number of rows in the board
  --cols COLS           Number of columns in the board
  --theme {default,grid,heatmap,heatmapgrid}
                        Theme
  --resx RESX           Vertical resolution
  --resy RESY           Horizontal resolution

Themes

You can select among a few themes: