C-bro

So a fellow forum member posted an idea about doing a project based on Conway's Game of Life. I had no idea what it was, so I looked it up and became immediately interested. I decided to throw together my own version: Colony.



I made it so you start with 15 cells wherever you want, or choose to just randomly generate them, and it uses the rules of Conway's Game of Life to determine the births/deaths of surrounding cells.

This is not really meant to be any good, I was just wanted to learn some basic multithreading, and try and fill my time now that exams are over. I may code in behavioural elements so that certain cells live well in large groups, while others live well alone. Even though the outcome is mathematically determined by the starting state, it's still fun to watch your Colony play out. They exhibit very entertaining dynamics at times. I've had some develop populations over 180 and only last 30 generations, then I've had others with a max population of only 90 last over 800 generations.

Enjoy!

Note: The file is virus free and is an executable .jar file.

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Colony.zip (7.4 KB, 15 views)

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What is this the source? Linux? No executables.

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JAR is java executable

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