Swing application which consists of a simulator of The Game of Life. This game is a cellular automaton devised by the British mathematician John Horton Conway in 1970
- Any live cell with fewer than two live neighbours dies, as if caused by under-population.
- Any live cell with two or three live neighbours lives on to the next generation.
- Any live cell with more than three live neighbours dies, as if by overcrowding.
- Any dead cell with exactly three live neighbours becomes a live cell, as if by reproduction.
More information here.
Controls
Left click: Draw cell
Right click: Erase cell
In the ball mode, one end of the vivarium connects with the other end.
You can run the program with Eclipse. To run the program without Eclipse: java -jar the-game-of-life.jar
License: GPLv3
| the-game-of-life(src).zip |
| Size: 29.61 KB |
| Creation date: 30/03/2016 |
| Last update: 09/10/2022 |
| Downloads: 4215 |
| the-game-of-life(bin).zip |
| Size: 29.29 KB |
| Creation date: 30/03/2016 |
| Last update: 11/07/2021 |
| Downloads: 1667 |
* You can download the item for free selecting "0 euro", but a donation would be greatly appreciated to keep its development, and also cover hosting costs. Thanks!