The Game of Life
The 'Game of Life' is a 'cellular automaton', a simulation that shows how a simple beginning can give rise to complex mechanisms. A concept first devised by British mathematician John Horton Conway.
Requirements
- Octave / Matlab / R
Files
Octave/life.m- Octave source file. Includes comments.Octave/life_nodoc.m- A copy of the previous file. Does not include any comments.R/life.r- R implementation of the Game of Life.
References
- Javascript implementation of Game of Life: http://pmav.eu/stuff/javascript-game-of-life-v3.1.1/
- Community dedicated to the Game of Life: http://conwaylife.com/
- Game of Life at Wolfram Mathworld: http://mathworld.wolfram.com/GameofLife.html