This is a simulation of a cellular automaton called John Conway's Game Of Life in C and SDL2
Description
John Conway's Game Of Life; or simply put, The Game Of Life, is a cellular automaton discovered by a mathematician named John Conway in 1970. It consists of a grid of cells that either live, revive, or die in further generations, depending on a set of simple rules.
This is a simple implementation of The Game Of Life that allows you to place and remove cells, play and pause the simulation, and clear the simulation with just the press of a key, and the click of your mouse.
To run this example, you must have SDL2 installed, and it compiles for macOS only. (sorry) To run the example, open your terminal and run these commands:
cd ProjectDirectory
git clone https://github.com/SoftwareFuze/Game-Of-Life-C.git
cd Game-Of-Life-C
make
make exec
Then it should open up the window and run the example.
To start off with a blank grid, you can change the code in main.c where it says initGrid(&grid); to be initBlankGrid(&grid); so it initializes a blank grid instead of a randomized one.
You start off being in placing mode, where you can click and drag to place cells. You can press p to start the simulation, and you can press space to pause the simulation at any time. You can press c to clear the screen and pause the simulation, and when you're done, you can press e to exit the simulation.
