life
John Conway's Game of Life

life, a MATLAB library which computes a few steps of the evolution of John Conway's Game of Life, intended as a starting point for implementing a parallel version.

Licensing:

The computer code and data files made available on this web page are distributed under the GNU LGPL license.

Languages:

life is available in a C version and a C++ version and a FORTRAN90 version and a MATLAB version.

Related Data and Programs:

life_test

Reference:

1. Martin Gardner,
   Mathematical Games: The Fantastic Combinations of John Conway's new solitaire game "Life",
   Scientific American,
   Volume 223, Number 4, October 1970, pages 120-123.
   

Source Code:

• filename_inc.m, generates the next filename in a series.
• life_init.m, initializes the life grid.
• life_update.m, updates a life grid.
• life_write.m, writes a grid to a file.
• r8_uniform_01.m, generates a unit pseudorandom R8.
• timestamp.m, prints the YMDHMS date as a timestamp.