Jon Gautsch Lab 7 - Conway's Game of Life 10/29/12 CSE 20211
#Running the game of life.
- compile the game of life by entering "gcc life.c -o life" in the terminal
- then run ./life
- enter 'a' to enter in a new "live" cell
- after entering in all the live cells you want, enter 'p' to run forever
- CTRL C to quit
##Running the game of life using scenes
- To run the game of life with pre made scence, run "./life < scene#.life"
- A description of the various scenes can be found below:
For scene1.life, there are 4 different static shapes. These shapes do not change with each iterat$ of the game of life.
For scence2.life, I made 4 different oscillating shapes. These shapes oscilate, but they never gr$ and never disappear either. They will oscilate onto infinity.
For scene3.life, I made 4 gliders that start fairly close to the center of the grid, but then gli$ off in 4 different directions.
For scene4.life, I implemedted one of the shapes described as a "methusela." This means that it g$ through very many itterations before settling. This particular methusela shape explodes into 633 $ cells before settling into static shapes and simply oscilations.
For scene5.life, I implemented Gosper's Glider Gun. The "gun" shoots off gliders infinitely. Conw$
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