grid_world 0.0.1

conway's game of life

Grid World

A dart implementation of Conway's game of life.

The GridWorld class has a generic NxM array of cells that can be alive or dead. It accepts a function to evolve it forward one step in time.

ConwayEvolver is a class embodying Conway's game of life rules suitable for injection into a GridWorld. ConwayEvolver also defines some famous Conway GOL patterns as easy-to-edit multi-line strings.

E.g. here's Gosper's glider gun:

  static final gosperGliderGun = GridWorld.fromString('''
......................................
.........................#............
.......................#.#............
.............##......##............##.
............#...#....##............##.
.##........#.....#...##...............
.##........#...#.##....#.#............
...........#.....#.......#............
............#...#.....................
.............##.......................
......................................
''');

Worlds can be built by sending these patterns into GridWorld composition methods.

Printers are provided that convert a GridWorld to a printable string, including strings that include ANSI escape sequences to animate the world on terminals.

Demo:

git clone [e-mail]:monopole/grid_world.git
dart grid_world/example/main.dart