The Game of Life is a cellular automaton devised by the British mathematician John Horton Conway in 1970. It consists of a grid of cells, which can be either alive or dead. Each cell interacts with its eight neighbors, and the state of the grid evolves over time according to a set of simple rules.
This C++ implementation of the Game of Life creates a randomly seeded grid and displays the evolution of the grid in the terminal until a stable state is reached.
- C++ compiler
- Terminal with ANSI escape code support (for moving the cursor)
g++ game-of-life.cpp -o game_of_lifeor
clang++ game-of-life.cpp -o game_of_lifeor, simply,
make