Buil - Buttignol: Game of Life

Evaluative instance for Diseño Orientado a Objetos 2024, Universidad Nacional de Río Cuarto.

The report for this project is located in the following directory: diagrams/GameofLife-Informe.pdf

Commands

To execute the project run the following command:

./gradlew run -Pargs=<fileName.properties>

Here's an example:

./gradlew run -Pargs=BriansBrainSpreading.properties

To run tests:

./gradlew test

Note: The properties files are located in the src/main/resources folder.

Properties Parameters:

• simulationType: The variant of Game of Life that you want to run. It can be one of the following:
  • Standard: Classic Game of Life
  • Immigration: Immigration Game of Life
  • QuadLife: Quad Life Game of Life
  • BrianBrain: Brian's Brain
  • StarWars: Star Wars Game of Life
• rules: In case you want to run Standard Game of Life, you can define the format Bx/Sy.
• rows: Number of rows of the grid.
• cols: Number of columns of the grid.
• limit: Number of iterations to run the simulation.
• clockType: Type of clock to use. It can be one of the following:
  • StandardClock: Standard clock
  • InputClock: Press Enter to continue to the next step.
  • SpeedClock: Simulation advances with a stepSpeed.
• stepSpeed: In case you want to run the simulation with SpeedClock, you can run it with different speeds.
  • Fast: 1 second each step.
  • Medium: 2 seconds each step.
  • Slow: 3 seconds each step.
• initialState: Initial state of the grid. It should be string of a board with the format:

|CCC|\
|CCC|\
...
|CCC|

Where C is the representation of a cell. It can be:

• D: Dead cell.
• A: Standard Alive Cell.
• W: White cell (Immigration).
• B: Black cell (Immigration).
• R: Red cell (QuadLife).
• G: Green cell (QuadLife).
• P: Blue cell (QuadLife).
• Y: Yellow cell (QuadLife).
• T: Refractory cell (Brian's Brain).
• F: Firing cell (Brian's Brain).
• 1: State-1 cell (Star Wars).
• 2: State-2 cell (Star Wars).
• 3: State-3 cell (Star Wars).