Game of Life

This is an implementation of Game of Life, which produces of the cellular automaton in the form of a sequence of PPM files, which can be then converted into a GIF or MP4 file. It uses no external libraries, which means reproducing it might be a good teaching project.

Build instructions

Requires cmake >=3.10 and a C++ compiler with C++17 support.

Run the following instructions in the shell to configure the project:

mkdir -p build/Release
cd build/Release
cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release ../..
cd -

After that you can build the code with:

cmake --build build/Release

You can replace Release with other build types.

Running instructions

At this point the executable will produce a hardcoded animation with a glider. The files will be generated into a glider directory, which needs to be created first:

mkdir glider

After that you can run the program with:

build/Release/src/game_of_life

In order to convert the raw frames to a GIF file, you can use Imagemagick:

convert glider/* glider.gif