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conway

A Conway's Game of Life console program

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README.md

Conway

This is a program for running Conway's Game of Life on the command line.

Preview

Building

make to build and make install to install.

Usage

Command line flags:

  • -S [0-8]* the rules for when an alive cell survives
  • -B [0-8]* the rules for when a new cell is born
  • -A <color> provide a color for alive cells (RGB hex, either 3 or 6 chars)
  • -D <color> provide a color for dead cells (RGB hex, either 3 or 6 chars)

Some interesting rulesets can be found in this list.

Actions:

  • Mouse: draw cells (by default: create new cells)
  • Space: toggle mouse mode between create/destroy
  • p: toggle play/pause
  • q or Escape: quit
  • c: clear the world