Game of Life

Conway's Game of Life written in Go

Install

Using Homebrew (OS X / Linux)

brew install kulapard/tap/gol

Update

Using Homebrew (OS X / Linux)

brew update
brew upgrade gol

Usage

Run with default parameters (size 30 x 40, random initial state):

gol run

Run initial state from file:

gol run --file ./examples/board.txt

To specify the size of the board and speed of the game:

gol run --rows 30 --cols 40 --speed 10

File format:

• . (dot) - dead cell
• 0 (zero) - alive cell
• (space) - ignored, uses for readability
• \n (new line) - end of row
• all other characters cause a parsing error

Example:

. . . . .
. . 0 . .
. 0 . 0 .
. . 0 . .
. . . . .

To see all available options:

gol run --help

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for more information.