Convery's Game of life

The rules of game are very simple :

• If a cell is alive and surrounded by less than 2 alive cell, it dies due to loneliness.
• If a cell is alive and surrounded by more than 3 alive cell, it dies due to overpopulation.
• If a cell is alive and surrounded by either 2 or 3 alive cell, it continues to live.
• If a cell is dead and surrounded by exactly 3 alive cell, it borns again.

The fascinating thing about the game is that even with such simple rules and only local interaction between the cells, we can see very complicated global behaviour. Sharing some gifs results from this implementation and few youTube links that shows more complex global behaviour.

Glider	Pentomino

Life in life by Phillip Bradbury YT link
Epic conway's game of life by Rational Animations YT link

Runbook

This implementation uses Pygame to render artifacts on the screen and uses Numpy to store the cell state and processing. All the required packages can be installed using the below command:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Run the program directly and use --help argument for info on various command line argument:

python main.py

On-Screen Controls

Input	Action
Left Click	set cell on the grid
Key : s	start simulation
Key : d	pause simulation
Key : r	reset grid
Key : 0	preset : Glider
Key : 1	preset : pentomino