Game of Life

Simple Game of Life for Qt5 with a small twist

The twist

Instead of the usual "fetch all neighbours around a cell", this implementation drags a 3x3 matrix around the grid

Features

• Resizable grid
• View dragging (hold the right mouse button down)
• View zooming (spin the scroll wheel)
• Adjustable max speed for the automatic generation stepping
• Toggleable grid wrapping
  • When enabled, have a glider hit the border and watch as it appears from the opposite side

Requirements

• Basic C++17 build tools
• Qt5 Development tools

Compiling on Ubuntu

Installing the requirements

sudo apt install build-essential
sudo apt install qtcreator
sudo apt install qt5-default

Compiling and running tests

cd tests
make test

Compiling and running the project

cd build
qmake ../GameOfLife.pro
make
./GameOfLife

Alternatively you can just open the project file in Qt Creator and use that.

If there are any problems, please make sure you have a modern, C++17 compatible compiler. Tested with GCC 9.2.1.

Creating the documentation

Install doxygen (and optionally graphviz for the sweet graphs)

sudo apt install doxygen
sudo apt install graphviz

Run doxygen

doxygen doxygen.conf

The documentation main page is located at doc/html/index.html

The directory structure

• src/ All of the code, excluding the tests.
• src/ui/ The code for the UI elements.
• tests/ The tests.
• ui/ The Qt Forms can be found in here.
• doc/ The documentation, generated when doxygen is run.
• build/ The build directory.
• screenshots/ A directory for screenshots.