laniman / game-of-life

Game of Life in vanilla JavaScript

Game of Life

Overview

This is a simple implementation of Conway's Game of Life, a cellular automaton devised by the mathematician John Conway. The game is played on a grid of cells, each of which can be in one of two states: alive or dead. The game evolves through generations based on a set of rules.

Rules

The rules of the game are as follows:

• Any live cell with two or three live neighbors lives on to the next generation.
• Any dead cell with exactly three live neighbors becomes a live cell, as if by reproduction.
• All others live cells die in the next generation.
• Similarly, all others dead cells stay dead.

For more detailed information, refer to the Wikipedia page.

Features

• The game board is implemented as a torus, where the rightmost cell is a neighbor of the leftmost cell with the same Y coordinate, and the top cell is a neighbor of the bottom cell with the same X coordinate.
• The size of the game board can be dynamically adjusted through the graphical interface.
• Initial generation can be generated either by user input using the mouse or randomly.
• The time taken to generate a new generation is displayed on the screen.

Implementation

The implementation is done using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript without the use of external libraries or frameworks.