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Conway's Game of Life

An implementation of Conway's Game of Life cellular automaton, animated with matplotlib. Supports random grids as well as glider and Gosper glider…

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Conway's Game of Life

An implementation of Conway's Game of Life cellular automaton, animated with matplotlib. Supports random grids as well as glider and Gosper glider gun demos via command-line flags.

Example

  1. Run with no flags: a 100x100 window opens showing a randomly populated grid that evolves each frame according to Conway's rules.
  2. Run python conwaygame.py --glider to open a blank grid with a single glider pattern placed at position (1, 1) and watch it travel diagonally.
  3. Run python conwaygame.py --gosper to start with a Gosper Glider Gun that continuously fires gliders across the grid.
  4. Pass --grid-size 50 --interval 100 to use a smaller 50x50 grid updated every 100 ms.
  5. Pass --mov-file output.mp4 to save the animation to a video file instead of displaying it.

How to run on localhost

pip install numpy matplotlib
python conwaygame.py

Optional flags: --grid-size, --interval, --glider, --gosper, --mov-file.

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