🔗 Code Example: Conway’s Game of Life

🔗 References:

• Conway's Game of Life Wikipedia Article

• Numberphile’s video with John Conway

• Coding Train’s Cellular Automata Series:

  • Elementary Cellular Automata

  • Falling Sand

🔗 Timestamps:

• 1:16 Creating a grid of random cell's state (dead or alive)

• 5:49 Updating the state of the next generation of cells

• 6:50 Creating a function to sum up the states of neighboring cells

• 14:31 Wrapping the index value of neighboring cells using modulus %

• 18:07 Creating a Grid class

• 21:30 Creating 3 buttons: Play, Reset, and Random

• 27:02 Using mouseDragged() to bring cells to life!

• 32:18 Making it rain(bow)