corona_life: Animate Conway's Game of Life

In corona: Coronavirus ('Rona') Data Exploration

Description

The canvas (arena) wraps around vertically and horizontally! Execution will take some time. Results will be viewed differently depending on your system's default viewer for animated GIF files.

Usage

corona_life(
  pattern = "soup",
  side = 50,
  steps = 100,
  density = 0.3,
  filename = NULL,
  wrap = TRUE,
  fps = 20,
  pause = 10
)

Arguments

pattern	Defaults to 'soup' but there are many other well-known options: blinker ttetromino rpentomino toad beehive beacon clock pulsar pentadecathlon galaxy spaceship glidergun piheptomino switchengine conway acorn rabbits boring static patterns: block snake eater
side	The number of elements on the area's side (width or height)
steps	The number of frames
density	0.0–1 The density of the initial, random items ('soup')
filename	writes to this file name e.g. foo.gif (NULL for current GIF device)
wrap	Wrap around
fps	Frames per second
pause	Initial pause

Examples

## Not run: 
corona_life( filename='animation.gif', side=50, steps=500, density=0.2 ) 
corona_life( side=100, steps=1000, pattern='rpentomino', wrap=FALSE ) 
corona_life( side=30, steps=120, pattern='spaceship' ) 
corona_life( side=100, steps=400, pattern='switchengine' ) 
corona_life( side=20, steps=30, pattern='clock' ) 
corona_life( side=20, steps=30, pattern='galaxy' ) 
corona_life( side=100, steps=200, pattern='glidergun' ) 
corona_life( side=45, steps=130, pattern='conway', fps=8, pause=40)

## End(Not run)

corona documentation built on Oct. 23, 2020, 7:15 p.m.