John Conway's game of life

author: Pierre-Jean Pollot.

Technologies

• Language C11 with the graphic library SDL2.
• gcc compiler.

Description

There are four types of cells:

• Dead cells in black.
• Living cells in white.
• Newborn cells in green.
• Dying cells in red.

Newborn cells and Dying cells will become respectively Living cells and Dead cells at the next step. For creating those two types of cells, Dead cells and Living cells are following the Game of life's rules that can be found here.

Colorful mode: also prints Dying and Newborn cells.

Installation and run

In the document root, enter in the command line:

make

Then run the program by typing:

./golife [-i] number of iterations [-t] time in milliseconds [-p] initial probability that a cell is living [-c]

-c : enables the Colorful mode.

By default, it will iterate 300 times and change state each 70ms for an initial porosity of 0.15.

Tinkering your own game of life

For changing the display and the grid, you can change their parameters in the file src/properties.h.