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conwaygo

Conway's Game of Life implementation

Usage

$ go build cmd/life/life.go
$ ./life -h
Usage of ./life:
  -debug
      Display in debug mode
  -delay float
      Seconds between updates (default 0.2)

When the binary in run, you will be presented with a blank screen.
Click on the terminal where you wish the seed live cells. You can do this at anytime, even after you have started the simulation.

Keybindings

Key	Description
`space`	Start and stop the simulation
`Page Up`	Increase the speed of the simulation
`Page Down`	Decrease the spped of the simulation
`ctrl`+`d`	Enable debug mode.
arrow keys	Move the viewport

In debug mode instead of displaying live cells, each tile will show the number living cells surrounding it.

Example

Note This gif is a little out of date, now that the code is split up into a pkg and cmd directory, build the project by running go build cmd/life/life.go