talhaahussain/game-of-life-gui

A (mostly) object-oriented implementation of John Horton Conway's Game of Life (1970) as a graphical user interface.

Game-of-Life-GUI

A (mostly) object-oriented implementation of John Horton Conway's Game of Life (1970) as a graphical user interface. The Game of Life is a Turing complete cellular automaton, with evolution determined entirely by its initial state. This implementation is written in Python, using the Pygame library.

Description

Game of Life is a cellular automaton that involves a universe of square cells, arranged in a grid. A cell can either be alive or dead, and interacts with neighbours, in all 8 directions (Moore neighbourhood). At each time step, each cell follows these rules:

• A live cell with less than 2 alive neighbours dies (starvation)
• A live cell with 2 or 3 alive neighbours remains alive
• A live cell with more than 3 alive neighbours dies (overpopulation)
• A dead cell with exactly 3 alive neighbours becomes live (reproduction)

Currently, this version of Game of Life only allows for random initial seeds; future versions will support user input to customise the initial state.

Prerequisites

Prerequisites are viewable in requirements.txt.

Installation

Clone with:

git clone https://github.com/talhaahussain/Game-of-Life-GUI.git gameoflife
cd gameoflife/

Install prerequisites with:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Usage

Run with:

cd src/
python gameoflife.py

See also

find_neighbours.py

Boids-GUI - (in development)

game-of-life-gui's Issues

Update README to include neighbourhood choice instructions.

Game of Life does not operate as intended.

As per title. Issue unknown; persistent as of 6f72d62.

Add further support for user input.

Add support for resolution control through argparse.

Add support for initial seed through GUI.

Add comments, type-hinting and docstrings to code.

Add custom initial state.

Add adjustable resolution.