aymenkhs / game-of-life

A python implementation of conway's Game of life

game-of-life

this is an implementation of conway's Game of life, with python and pygame. The Game is a 0 player game (it's a simulation) when each cell is represented by a square, it can be alive or dead. and for each generation it's evolve following the rules bellow

• if a dead cell is surrounded by exactly 3 alive cells then she will be alive in the next generation as if by reproduction.
• if an alive cell is surrounded by 2 or 3 alive cells it will survive on the next generation.
• if an alive cell is surrounded by less than 2 (or more than 3) alive cells, it will die as if by underpopulation (resp by overpopulation). for more information about the game check this wikipedia page

Requirements

• python3
• pygame

How to run it

1. Create a virtual environment

python3 -m venv env

2. activate virtual environment

source env/bin/activate

3. Install requirments

pip install requirements.txt

if it doesn't work try

pip install pygame

4. run

python game_of_life.py

configuration

there are some configurations you can do to the JSON file config.json

you can

1. adjust the the size of the window by modifying these parameters

"screen_size_width":1200,
"screen_size_height":800,

2. modify the background color (color of the dead cells), and the cell color.

"background_color":"darkslategray",
"cell_color":"tomato",

3. or the size of a cell wich will impact the number of cells in the board (smaller size imply more cells).

"cell_size_width":12,
"cell_size_height":12,

The last paramater is the initial configuration and it represent the coordinate of cells alive at the begining of the simulation

How to play it

you can add a living cell by taping the left click with the mousse, and delete a living cell with the right click.

you can use the spacebar to pause/unpause the simulation

you can use the backspace to reset the simulation (you'll kill all the cells)