juangallostra/game-of-life

C implementation of Conway's game of life

game-of-life's Issues

Initial world state as a specified user github's contributions history

The tittle says it all, but the main idea is to use the API GitHub provides to retrieve the contribution history of a specified user for the last year or for a specified period of time and use it as the initial state of the world.

Proper Readme

Devote some time to write a good readme for the repository that includes a better explanation of the project, the two approaches and its current state.

Option to define the initial world configuration

Let the user via terminal input or via a GUI specify the initial configuration of the world.

Infinite world

Instead of a predefined world size keep growing its size as more space is needed.

Move Makefile to root repo directory

The idea is to keep the code inside the src folder but have the Makefile outside (on the top level directory) so that the project can be build from outside the src directory.

Separate drawing logic from main function

In release v.1.0 the code in charge of drawing the current state in the terminal is coupled with the main function. It would be nice to separate them in two files and define a headers file for the drawing function.

Bug in evolve.c

Found this when making non-square worlds.

In evolve.c line 52 should be:
if (*(state + (i + neighbours[k][0])*col + j+ neighbours[k][1]) == 1)
and line 58:
*(pointer + i*col + j) = decision(cont,*(state + i*col +j));
Basically, to get the index into array you must multiply "row number" with "column size" (not with row size as it is now).

Thank You!

Makefile

Create a makefile to organize code compilation