Conway's Game of Life — live renderer

Take a seed for Conway's Game of Life and watch it evolve live. Written in C++ and Python using ctypes

Usage

• Random seed: python conway.py --seed random
• Seed from file: python conway.py --seed seeds/spaceship.txt

See python conway.py --help for more.

Seeds from files must consist of a rectangular grid of 0s and 1s, seperated by spaces. You can create some using the scripts seeds/createEmptySeed.py and seeds/createGeometricSeed.py.

Requirements

Python

• matplotlib and numpy

C++

• I use Carl Rogers' amazing library cnpy to save and load numpy-arrays in C++. In the next section I assume that it is installed in /usr/local/lib.

Building

git clone https://github.com/davekch/conway.git
cd conway

g++ -c -fPIC tick.cpp -o tick.o --std=c++11
g++ -shared -Wl,-soname,libtick.so -o libtick.so tick.o -L/usr/local/lib -lcnpy -lz

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The branch cython contains older code using a different approach and doesn't depend on cnpy.