John Conway's Game of Life Simulation

A C# visualization of John Conway's Game of Life

Rules

At each generation

• If cell has < 2 neighbors, it dies
• If it has exactly 2 neighbors it stays alive
• If it has exactly 3 neighbors, it will be born

Glider = same pattern, shifted/translated across the board

Enhancements

• auto-grow board until a user-defined limit (with an internal max)
• parallelization?

Projects

• GameOfLife.Core
  Contains the main game logic for the simulation
• GameOfLife.ConsoleRunner
  Console App to test game functionality and write output to a text file
• GameOfLife.UI
  A WPF Application for visualization and animation
• GameOfLife.Benchmarks
  Benchmark tests for performance analysis
• GameOfLife.Tests An xUnit test project for game logic correctness

References

• Modified Game of Life simulator

TODO

• remove history option (not needed for visualizer)
• Investigate Span
• detect cycles with hash & optimize
• More benchmarks
• Fix filename clash better than Thread.Sleep(1500). (Tried using FileStream & StreamWriter already and I didn't fix it)