game-of-life

Yet another implementation of Conway's Game of Life

If you are using IntelliJ IDEA, you can import this repo using File > New > Project from Version Control... > Git

Features

• Visual themes. There are three default themes, and you can add more
• Shortcuts. There are a number of keyboard shortcuts you can use to control the simulation
• Patterns. You can import structures in RLE format and then add them in just a few clicks
• Command line arguments. You can limit the field, start in windowed mode or specify the initial state
• Unfortunately, there are no ability to save current state/history in a file

Shortcuts

• CTRL - show control panel while pressed
• ESC - toggle control panel visibility
• SPACE - toggle simulation pause
• W/S - control speed of simulation
• A/D - go back / forward in history
• Q/E - rotate pattern

Patterns

After first run, the folder GameOfLife will be automatically created. To import game of life structures, create folder GameOfLife/patterns and put there a file with any name and your RLE as its contents. It should have only RLE, without additional parameters (such as x = 3, y = 2, and so on) or comments. So, finally your folder structure should look like this:

GameOfLife/
├───customization
├───themes/
└───patterns/
    └───glider

And the glider file contents should be somthing like this:

bo$2bo$3o

Command line arguments

• --size <W> <H> or -s <W> <H> to limit the field with given Width and Height (in cells). This will also start the app in windowed mode
• --rle to specify initial state in RLE format, for example, --rle bo$2bo$3o