Game of life

This is a project I did from following a tutorial. The link to that repo can me found here: https://github.com/KyleBanks/conways-gol

I have made some changes mainly to the structure because I want to expand on the OpenGL parts a lot in another project.

Install

You can download and build directly from the source:

$ go get github.com/PetrusJPrinsloo/gameoflife

You will need to have gcc installed and in your PATH on windows. I have not tested this on Linux or Mac, but I would imagine you should have build tools installed there as well. This is because the GL and GLFW librarie are still C libraries and Go requires gcc to compile them.

Configure

To change how the application runs just edit the default.json file in the root of the project.

{
    "width": 1000,
    "height": 1000,
    "rows": 80,
    "columns": 80,
    "threshold": 0.15,
    "fps": 10
}

• "width": 1000 Width of the window.
• "height": 1000 Height of the window.
• "rows": 80 Rows of cells.
• "columns": 80 Columns of cells.
• "threshold": 0.15 Chance of cell being alive on start, so default is 15%.
• "fps": 10 Frames Per Second, each frame is a new generation.