Rules applied at each stages:
- Any live cell with fewer than two live neighbours dies, as if caused by underpopulation.
- Any live cell with two or three live neighbours lives on to the next generation.
- Any live cell with more than three live neighbours dies, as if by overpopulation.
- Any dead cell with exactly three live neighbours becomes a live cell, as if by reproduction.
Clone the repo, cd into the project and run:
ruby play.rb
By default, uses the JOHN constant, to mimic the xkcd comic: https://xkcd.com/2293/
You can pass an argument from the list of constants in Pattern. Examples taken from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_Game_of_Life
ruby play.rb blinkerruby play.rb toadruby play.rb beaconruby play.rb pulsarruby play.rb penta_decathlonruby play.rb johnruby play.rb shopify
Jessica Xie for the initial pairing and idea
ruby play.rb shopify
This was a fun mini-project. Here is a list of improvements that I might not do.
- Using figlet, I generated the
shopifyconstant - it would be cool if it could take the word and generate the array if no constant is found.
figlet -f banner $1 | sed -e"s/#/1,/g" | sed -e"s/ /0,/g" | xclip -selection clipboard;
(Needs a little vim sugar to tidy up)
- The GameOfLife class takes an array, but I don't know how to pass an array to it when running
ruby file/path - Lives defaults to 1000, make that optional
- Code improvements - for example, we pass around row/column number a lot..
Notice anything? Any comments or suggestions?
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