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Conway's Game of Life in ncurses

game-of-life

Conway's Game of Life in ncurses

Summary

Given, a rule and a grid:

1. apply the rule to the grid to produce a new grid,
2. use ncurses to display the new grid, and
3. then wait a short period of time (e.g. 1/2 a second)

Copyright

© 2016 Powershop

Stack

The game will be written in Ruby, and will use the ncurses-ruby gem to display the game in ncurses in a terminal window.

Assumptions and limitations

1. The neighbourhood will be the Moore neighbourhood of a cell.
2. The grid will not resize if the terminal window changes mid-game.
3. The initial grid will be all off-pixels with one on-pixel in the centre.

Glossary

• cell: a single pixel of the Game of Life, either on or off
• grid: a 2D matrix of cells, fit to the size of the terminal window
• neighbourhood: a 2D matrix around a cell, containing all cells which might be able to influence the centre cell.
• rule: a set of transformations from neighbourhoods into cells for the next step of the game