C-Programming-Exercise-5

Game of Life:

In the original game of life, the universe size is infinite. For this lab, we assume that the universe size is finite and can be descried by 2-D array. The size is an input parameters, so is the initial state.
The game of life is a 0-player game, the game behavior is determined by the initial state, no input is required to play.
The universe (2-D array) evolves in generations. The next generation state is completely depends on the current generation state. Generation 0 is the initial state and is an input to your program.

Rules:
• The state of any cell in the next generation is determined by the state of the that cell neighbors in the current generation.
• If a live cell has less that 2 alive neighbors in the current generation, it dies in the next generation (under population).
• If a live cell has more than 3 live neighbors in the current generation, it dies in the next generation (over population).
• If a live cell has 2 or 3 live neighbors in the current generation, it continues to live in the next generation.
• If a dead cell in the current generation has exactly 3 live cells, it becomes live in the next generation (reproduction).
Some patterns repeat itself after a specific period, some patterns may move to the left/right in a continuous way, some patterns dies off very quickly and every cell is dead in a small number of generations. After you complete you code, you may play around with the initial pattern to produce different scenarios.

Specifications: The input to the program is as follows:
two integers, r and c to indicate the size of the array (rows and columns) one integer that determine the number of generations to calculate and display. r lines each contains c integers with values of either 1 or zero to describe the initial state of the game.
The output is a series of 2-D arrays displays where the game is displayed as 2-D array with every cell is either 1 or 0, where 1 means the cell is alive and 0 means the cell is dead.
A separator of 5 dashes (minus sign) followed by a new line after each display. For example, if the input is:
5 5
3
0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0
0 1 1 1 0
0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0

smhasan1 / c-programming-exercise-5 Goto Github PK