grid_world 0.0.3

A toolkit for playing with Conway's Game of Life at the command line.

Grid World

A dart implementation of Conway's game of life.

GridWorld is an NxM grid of cells that can be alive or dead. A GridWorld accepts an Evolver to evolve it forward in time.

A ConwayEvolver is an Evolver embodying Conway's game of life rules.

The ConwayEvolver also defines some static strings representing famous Conway GOL patterns, e.g. the Gosper 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