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Conway's Game Of Life

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The Game of Life, created by John Conway, is a cellular automaton. The game is 'played' on an infinite, orthogonal 2 dimensional grid that marks out cells.

Each cell can be in one of two states: alive and dead. In my simulation, these have been represente as white and black respaectively.

After an initial start position of cells, the interaction aspect of the game is over, from here on, the game undergoes a series of evolutions. Each evolution involves evaluating every cell in the current board, and applying 4 rules which define how the cell will change for the next generation.

These rules revolve around the neighbours of the cell:

  1. Any live cell with fewer than two live neighbours dies, as if caused by underpopulation.
  2. Any live cell with two or three live neighbours lives on to the next generation.
  3. Any live cell with more than three live neighbours dies, as if by overpopulation.
  4. Any dead cell with exactly three live neighbours becomes a live cell, as if by reproduction.

And that's it, game done!