The Game of Life, also known simply as Life, is a cellular automaton devised by the British mathematician John Horton Conway in 1970. The "game" 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.
The universe of the Game of Life is an infinite two-dimensional orthogonal grid of square cells, each of which is in one of two possible states, alive or dead. Every cell interacts with its eight neighbours, which are the cells that are horizontally, vertically, or diagonally adjacent. At each step in time, the following transitions occur:
Any live cell with fewer than two live neighbours dies, as if caused by under-population.
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 overcrowding.
Any dead cell with exactly three live neighbours becomes a live cell, as if by reproduction.
The initial pattern constitutes the seed of the system. The first generation is created by applying the above rules simultaneously to every cell in the seed—births and deaths occur simultaneously, and the discrete moment at which this happens is sometimes called a tick (in other words, each generation is a pure function of the preceding one). The rules continue to be applied repeatedly to create further generations.
This is a Javascript implementation of Conway's Game of Life.
In order to run the game open the 'index.html'. There will be a 100x100 world rendered. Dead cells are in black; alive cells are in white. To change the state of one cell you should click the cell.
When you click 'Tick' it will run one tick one the world applying the rules of the game to the world. If you click 'Autoplay' it will run ticks automatically, stopping when you click 'Tick', or when you click a cell, or when you click on 'Autoplay' again.
This code has been fully tested with Jasmine using TDD. To run specs open "SpecRunner.html".