This is an implementation of the famous Game of Life cellular automaton in C++ using the olcConsoleGameEngine. Check usage and results of this work here.
- C++ language.
- olcConsoleGameEngine.
This implementation provides several simulation options as:
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Choosing the rules by which the GOL will simulate, the default one is B3/S23
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The ability load a pre configuration file i.e. a file containing an already simulated state of the automata.
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The ability to choose the percentage of live cells at the beginning of the simulation.
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There are two types of Pattern Recognition inside the simulation to choose:
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Oscilators-Still-Chaos: This will represent the Oscilating life forms, Still lifes and 'Chaos' (any other) in different colors.
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Static-NonStatic: This will only show two different kind of cells, those who stay still over more than one generation and those who not.
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The ability to slow down the simulation by maintaining the function keys pressed:
- F1 delays for 100ms.
- F2 delays for 200ms.
- F3 delays for 300ms.
- F5 delays for 500ms.
- F10 delays for 1s.
- F11 delays for 2s.
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Finally, it is also posible to stop the simulation at any generation using the Esc key, then you will be asked if a configuration file with the actual generation should be saved or exit otherwise.
It also does a computation of several variables over each generation:
- Average cell life forms.
- Shannon Entropy calculation.
- Variance
- Number of Oscilators, Still or Chaos forms.
In order to run the program you need to:
- Download the code.
- Run in a Linux distribution (Ubuntu recommended).
- Having SDL2 and C++ installed on your computer.
- Compile with:
g++ game.cpp -DUNICODE -I/usr/include/SDL2 -lSDL2 -lpthread -std=c++11 -o game.out- Run:
./game.out