game-class: A Reference Class to represent a Game of Life

In chrlen/gameOfLifeAgain: Calculates and displays a Game of Life with an infinite board size.

Description

A Reference Class to represent a Game of Life

Fields

board

Board-object to manage states and state-transistion

rule

Rule-object to control state-changes of the board

verbose

decide if basic information should be printed in each iteration

plot

decide if board should be plotted in each iteration

max_iterations

numeric to set the maximum number of iterations

endless

decide if game is endless

sleep_duration

set time to sleep for plotting

Methods

nextState()

Takes the game to it's next state

run()

Iterate game constantly until maximum number of iterations is reached or endlessly

Examples

library(gameOfLife)

rule = Rule(survive = c(2, 3), revive = c(3))

gol = Game(
  board = Board(
    matrix = gliders,
    shrink_counter = 0),
  rule = rule,
  iteration = 0,
  endless = FALSE,
  max_iterations = 100,
  sleep_duration = 0.05,
  plot = TRUE,
  verbose = TRUE
)

gol$run()

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