Conway's Game of Life in Python

A very simple celluar automata written in Python, using NumPy and Pygame. The rules are that of Conway's Game of Life, where:

• Any live cell with fewer than two live neighbours dies
• Any live cell with two or three live neighbours lives on to the next
• Any live cell with more than three live neighbours dies
• Any dead cell with exactly three live neighbours becomes a live cell

Getting Started

1. Install the necessary modules, either to your system or to a virtualenv, using py -m pip install -r requirements.txt
2. Run py main.py

Command Line Arguments

• -s <int> specify the simulation size, i.e., the number of cells in a row
• -w <int> specify the window size
• -i <filename> specify the starting state, defined by a txt file with - for empty (dead) cells and * for live cells