andreagemelli / gameoflife

Python Kivy implementation of Conway’s Game of Life

Game Of Life

Python Kivy implementation of Conway’s Game of Life.

Dependencies

• Python 3.5.5
• kivy 1.10.1

It should also work with python 3.x and others kivy versions.

Launch the application

Type $python gameoflife/main.py on console.

Try more patterns

From the application settings, by default, it's possibile to try only 5 patterns. If you want to explore them all, just add a new file name from the 'patterns' folder on the 'layout.kv' file, editing the line 175:
values: ["1beacon", "glider", "ghostherschel", "4boats", "star"]

Links

Original article:
http://ddi.cs.uni-potsdam.de/HyFISCH/Produzieren/lis_projekt/proj_gamelife/ConwayScientificAmerican.htm

All patterns downloaded from:
http://www.conwaylife.com/wiki/Main_Page

Screenshots

The main page allow the user to play around with the Conway’s Game of Life: it's also possible to edit each cell.

Thanks to the settings screen is possible to speed up the animation or zoom on board. The user can also select from the proposed list a pattern to fill the board with.