Table of contents

1. Game of Life
2. Mandatory
3. Done project
   1. Features
   2. Behind the scenes

Game of Life

Python couse 3 mandatory 2 assignment

Game Of Life: Gosper glider gun:

In 1970 the British Mathematician John Conway created his "Game of Life" -- a set of rules that mimics the chaotic yet patterned growth of a colony of biological organisms. The "game" takes place on a two-dimensional grid consisting of "living" and "dead" cells, and the rules to step from generation to generation are simple:

• Overpopulation: if a living cell is surrounded by more than three living cells, it dies.
• Stasis: if a living cell is surrounded by two or three living cells, it survives.
• Underpopulation: if a living cell is surrounded by fewer than two living cells, it dies.
• Reproduction: if a dead cell is surrounded by exactly three cells, it becomes a live cell.

By enforcing these rules in sequential steps, beautiful and unexpected patterns can appear.

Mandatory:

As our mandatory 2/exam project we ware able to choose between four projects:

• Game of Life
• Chat System
• Web-based BBS System
• QR-Code Generator

In all projects there are some common requirements:

• Write Pythonic code using the concepts from this course
• Demonstrate correctness using tests, document code coverage
• Separate configuration from implementation
• Apply the DRY principle (Don't Repeat Yourself)

I have chosen Game of Life and will be using PyQt5 as my GUI framework library.

Objective of project: Implement a GUI-based Game of Life.

Requirements:

• The project must implement a GUI for the user
• Game grid is 100 x 100
• Support for at least two rule sets
• Support for default, random, and user dened initial state
• Configurable speed, and step-by-step progression

Done project

Features

• Able to click anywhere on the canvas and it will toggle the pixel white or black.
• Generate random pattern.
• Clear/reset canvas.
• Save a pattern/canvas with a name for reuse or display.
• Auto play the game and pause auto play, and able to take one step at the time
• Choose new rules for the cells by choosing when dead cells become alive and when live cells live on.
• Change how often the canvas updates.
• Click saved patterns/canvas to reinstantiate
• Choose a rule from a rule set
• Save a rule

Behind the scenes

I create a 2d array[100][100] that contains booleans where true is a live cell. Then I use create a QImage based on this array with black pixels being live cells, then I scale the image up by 7 so the image becomes 700x700px, this is so you easily can see whats going on.

Image comparison:

Scale	No scale

The window is separated in 3 column; Canvas | Buttons | saved canvas