Python implementation of the Conway's Game of Life using PyQt5.
The Game of Life is a grid sistem composed by cells which can assume a finite number of states. The state of each cell is determined by a set of rules applied to cells and their neighborhood. t was devised by the British matematician John Horton Conway in 1970 as a simplification of the John von Neumann original idea to realize a cellular automaton that simulated a Turing machine. For further info check the Wikipedia page.
The original Conway's Game of Life is defined over a infinite grid of cells with only two states: alive or dead.
At each timestep the grid states is updated applying the following rules:
- Each living cell with one or zero living neighbors dies
- Each living cell with four or more living neighbors dies
- Each living cell with two or three living neighbors survives
- Each dead cell will be born if it has exactly three living neighbors
- Start and Pause the simulation
- Control the simulation speed via a slider
- Perform a single step of the simulation
- Show the cell age. Besides the classical black and white representation of alive and dead cells, they can be colored according to their age
- Show the age of the "Game Time" (i.e. for how long the simulation is going)
- Show the number of alive cells
- The grid is editable when the simulation is paused
- Click and Drag for an easy way to change the cells state
- Reset the grid to the initial state (blank if no pattern is selected)
- Custom pattern can be saved and loaded
- Pattern can also be loaded from here. Right now just the plaintext format is supported
- Fixed sized grid. The grid size can be edited using the config.yml file
- Provide information of the game commands and rules
- Provide general information about the game
The dependencies can be install with the following command:
conda env create -f conda_env.yml
| Software | Version |
|---|---|
| Python | tested on v3.6 |
| PyQT5 | tested on v5.9.2 |
| Numpy | tested on v1.17.0 |
| PyYaml | tested on v5.4.1 |
In order to start the game it's just needed to run main.py file. For changing some settings (e.g. grid size or the game grid loaded by default) you can edit the config.yml file.