tannerbohn / gameoflife-freezable

Conway's Game of Life with freezable/fixable cells

GameOfLife-Freezable

Conway's Game of Life with freezable/fixable cells

Usage

To run the code, python main.py

Inside main.py, you can set the following values:

• n: grid side length (be careful with large values due to updating inefficiency)
• dt: refresh/update speed (# seconds between frames)

Inside Cell.py, you can set the following values:

• on_colour: colour of living cells

  • note: The colours are stored as RGB lists, where 0 is min, and 1 is max

• off_colour: colour of dead cells

• fixed_colour: tint of fixed cells

• border_width: with of rectangle border (probably want either 0 or 1)

• alive_to_dead_change_rate

  • how quickly the colour for a cell changes from on colour to off colour
  • (0.5 means that every fram, the colour moves half-way from current colour to target colour)
  • for normal GOL colours, set this to 1

• dead_to_alive_change_rate

  • how quickly the colour for a cell changes from off colour to on colour
  • for normal GOL colours, set this to 1

When using the program, the following operations are available:

• p: play/pause
• f: faster
• s: slower
• c: soft clear (kills normal cells)
• C: hard clear (soft clear + resets fixed cells)
• left click on cell: toggles cell state (alive/dead)
• right click on cell: toggles cell fixed state (fixed/not fixed)
  • can then left click on cell to toggle alive/dead state

Tips

• resizing the window is VERY slow

gameoflife-freezable's Issues

Possible improvements

I think this is an awesome project. I love GOF and this approach is great. The visuals are even better!

Two features that would be awesome to see:

• Performance improvements, should allow higher speeds
• Keep drawing on click

For the draw on click, check http://mcdlr.com/game-of-life/ ( https://github.com/DrummerHead/conway-game-of-life ) for reference, where you can keep pressing to draw continuously.

Cheers!