Game of life by conway

Activity - Two-Player Game of Life. To call Conway's Game of Life a game is to stretch the meaning of the word "game", but there is an fun adaptation that can produce a competitive and strategic activity for multiple players. The modification made is that now the live cells come in two colors one associated with each player. When a new cell comes to life, the cell takes on the color of the majority of its neighbors. Since there must be three neighbors in order for a cell to come to life, there cannot be a tie.

There must be a majority Players alternate turns. On a player's turn, he or she must kill one enemy cell and must change one empty cell to a cell of their own color.

They are allowed to create a new cell at the location in which they killed an enemy cell. After a player's turn, the Life cells go through one generation, and the play moves to the next player. There is always exactly one generation of evolution between separate players' actions. The initial board configuration should be decided beforehand and be symmetric.

A player is eliminated when they have no cells remaining of their color. This variant of life can well be adapted to multiple players. However, with more than two players, it is possible that a newborn cell will have three neighbors belonging to three separate players.

In that case, the newborn cell is neutral, and does not belong to anyone. Golly - A good cross-platform Game of Life Simulator. Cornell University - Chris Lipa - lipa math. Interesting version of computer realization of the mathematical game of "Life" invented by British mathematician John Conway in Venue of the game - "the universe" - is marked on the cell surface, unlimited, limited, or closed. Every cell on this surface can be in two states: dead or alive.

The player does not take a direct part in the game. He only puts the initial configuration of live cells, which then interact according to certain rules without his participation.

These rules lead to a huge variety of "life" that may arise in the game. This implementation provides you with an "unlimited" size of the Universe. It can be scaled, loaded and saved in many popular file formats.

Editor stores user actions who can roll them up to a specific moment, if necessary , transformations, such as rotations or flips, applicable on the selected areas. Also, you can choose the color for the states of cells, gridlines, and background. If you specify a non-numeric value, or a value which is too large or too small, the default value will be used instead. You can choose among four color schemes: Black -- all new cells are black.

Rainbow -- the color used for new cells changes from generation to generation, following a rainbow sequence. Old cells retain whatever color they were created with. For example, RGB values of ,0,0 would denote red, while 0,, would be cyan. Cells born as the world evolves acquire their color as an average of the colors of their three parent cells.

To create live cells, click on the grid with the left mouse button. You can also click and drag, which produces a line of live cells along the path of the mouse cursor. You can press and release the Shift key without having to release the mouse button. Whenever the Shift key is down, you are deleting cells. Whenever it is up, you are creating cells. Once you have an initial configuration of cells, click on the Evolve button.

The universe will then evolve for the number of generations specified in the input field to the left of the Evolve button. You can stop evolving by clicking on the Stop button. The number of milliseconds between generations is determined by the Delay value, which you can set between 0 and one minute.

Use the various arrow buttons above the grid to pan: pan to the left. The Zoom In button zooms in by a factor of 2, while the Zoom Out button zooms out by a factor of 2. Those 4 seemingly simple rules can result in wildy differing sequences.

Sometimes an initial state will create an unpredictable, chaotic sequence. Other times, it will create a repeating sequence such as the glider, pulsar, and spaceship from the preset dropdown. And other times, all cells will quickly die off or stabilise into a static formation, known as a still life, such as a 2x2 square.

Watch Math Brown demonstrate how to interact with our implementation of Conway's Game of Life in the video below.