Wild-Life

Interactive Game of Life

This is my small lockdown-weekend project: my tribute to John Horton Conway - an interactive version of Life Game. I always wondered, how fun it would be to be able modify life's world in the runtime. So here it is: use your mouse to add new life forms.

Video demonstration:

What you need:

• Python 3.8 or newer (should work on 3.6+, but I didn't test it)
• Numpy (pip install numpy)
• OpenCV (pip install opencv-python)

It should run on any system where you can install Python with modules listed above, however I tested it only on Windows.

How to run it:

Run python3.exe wild_life.py (or equivalent on your system)

How to use it:

• Mouse-click anywhere to insert species
• Mouse-click on the species list in the bottom to select species to be inserted
• 1, 2, 3, 4 keys to change color map
• Esc to exit

All configuration parameters are stored in the first part of wild_life.py file.

Bonus: minimal code - 141 bytes

The minimal_code folder contains shortest python implementation I was able to create. It's fully functional (though not interactive), with OpenCV visualisation, very fast. In only 141 bytes of code :)

Hit Esc to exit.

Copyright

Copyright 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 Paweł Budziszewski