Angus's Personal Site: Game of Life

- Game of Life -

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Unoccupied location

Occupied by cell

This is based on the famous computer game of LIFE, developed by John Conway while at Cambride University, UK. It was popularised by an article in Scientific American by Martin Gardiner in 1970. This simulation is created using the following algorithm:

A grid is drawn and mirrored 4 times for symmetry.
One quadrant is manipulated according to the following rules:
- If a location is free and it has either 2 or 3 occupied locations surrounding it, then a new cell is created in that location in the next generation.
- If a location contains a cell and is surrounded by less than 2 or more than 3 cells, then that cell does not survive to the next generation.
- In all other cases the location is left as it is.
Each quadrant is updated according to the results of updating only the one quadrant such that symmetry is maintained.

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