game_of_life_hexagons_version

Group Name

Conway's Hexagons

Group member names and NetIDs

• Peter Zhu (bowenz12)
• Justin Bai (justinb8)

Project Introduction

• The Game of Life, also known simply as Life, is a cellular automaton devised by the British mathematician John Horton Conway in 1970. It is a zero-player It is a zero-player game, meaning that its evolution is determined by its initial state, requiring no further input. One interacts with the Game of Life by creating an initial configuration and observing how it evolves. (from Wikipedia)
• I was amazed when I saw a video of the Game of Life before, so I wanted to try to implement Conway's Game of Life using rust and in a different shape (hexagonal).

System Overview

rules:

• Any live cell with fewer than two live neighbours dies, as if by underpopulation.
• Any live cell with two or three live neighbours lives on to the next generation.
• Any live cell with more than three live neighbours dies, as if by overpopulation.
• Any dead cell with exactly three live neighbours becomes a live cell, as if by reproduction.

Show the results as an animation.

Possible Challenges

• How to display the hexagon cells as an GIF or animation
• Having a simple UI (e.g. User can choose which cells are live to begin with, user can move onto next generation, user can terminate program)

References