Conway's Game of Life

• zero-player game simulating life of cells
• Wikipedia article
• this is my personal CLI implementation in Go

Usage

go build conway.go
./conway width height file

• where width and height are unsigned integers that determine the size of field
• and file is a file with the starting seed

Seed

• The only influence the user has on the Game of Life is the starting position determined by the seed
• The seed for my implementation has the following format:

0, 0
9, 3

• where the tuples of numbers determine the starting cells which are alive
• there are example seeds in the repository block, blinker and glider

Example

./conway 10 10 glider
Generation  0 :

_X________
__X_______
XXX_______
__________
__________
__________
__________
__________
__________
__________

Pres return for next generation, Ctrl-c to stop.