Conway's Game of Life

Visualizing Conway's Game of Life on the terminal.

Example

A screenshot of the visualization:

Requirements

• Python 2.7 or Python 3.5
• Unix-based OS (for ncurses support)

Usage

Run the Game of Life visualization with default settings (grid size equals size of the terminal window):

$ python game.py

Create a 24 x 40 block grid on your terminal, and run for 1000 ticks with a pause of 0.04 seconds between each tick:

$ python game.py 24 40 1000 0.04

Exit the Game of Life visualization by pressing Ctrl-C.

TODO

1. Restart if caught in a repetitive cycle
2. Optimize performance
3. Use 255 colors
4. Allow user to specify which colors to use
5. Allow other ways to exit the program