the rules¶
Conway’s game of life is a simulation that observes the following rules
each cell has a total of 8 neighbours; depending on the number of cells alive among these 8:
Any live cell with fewer than two live neighbours dies, as if by underpopulation.
Any live cell with two or three live neighbours lives on to the next generation.
Any live cell with more than three live neighbours dies, as if by overpopulation.
Any dead cell with exactly three live neighbours becomes a live cell, as if by reproduction.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway's_Game_of_Life for more details
your mission¶
your job is fairly simple, you are to write a program that implements these; it could look like the following screenshot - but you are free to go for any other tooling / format / etc..
notes¶
in no particular order
wrapping¶
in the original definition, the screen is supposed infinite, and so as a means to better approach this on a finite screen, our implementation has the right end of the screen wrapped to the right; and same of course in the vertical direction
pygame¶
this demo is implemented with pygame but that’s not at all mandatory