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Rocklife

A port of Conway's Game of Life to rockbox

from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway's_Game_of_Life:

Rules

The universe of the Game of Life is an infinite two-dimensional orthogonal grid of square cells, each of which is in one of two possible states, live or dead. Every cell interacts with its eight neighbours, which are the cells that are directly horizontally, vertically, or diagonally adjacent. At each step in time, the following transitions occur:

1. Any live cell with fewer than two live neighbours dies, as if by loneliness.

2. Any live cell with more than three live neighbours dies, as if by overcrowding.

3. Any live cell with two or three live neighbours lives, unchanged, to the next generation.

4. Any dead cell with exactly three live neighbours comes to life.

The initial pattern constitutes the first generation of the system. The second generation is created by applying the above rules simultaneously to every cell in the first generation -- births and deaths happen simultaneously, and the discrete moment at which this happens is sometimes called a tick. (In other words, each generation is based entirely on the one before.) The rules continue to be applied repeatedly to create further generations.

Todo Status Description
Colours 0% nicer colours for pixels with respect to age
Editor 0% editor for start patterns
Speed-ups 0% probably tons of speed-up opportunities


Chronon: I think the ability to read .cells files as starting configurations would be a nice feature. See: http://www.bitstorm.org/gameoflife/lexicon/
CategoryPlugin: Rocklife [PlayerDONE, RecorderDONE, OndioDONE, H100DONE, H300DONE, H10DONE, iPod 1G2GDONE, iPod 4GDONE, iPod ColorDONE, iPod MiniDONE, iPod NanoDONE, iPod VideoDONE, iAudio M5DONE, iAudio X5DONE, GigabeatDONE, Sansa e200DONE, Sansa c200DONE]

r8 - 19 May 2008 - 00:19:35 - JensArnold
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