HI everyone..
I am new on this site. But this forums hepled me a lot in my previous course
Does anyone know about this lifegame? I dont know about it.Actually i have started to study the C++ but this is also new for me.
Write a program to implement the game called Life, created by the British mathematician J. H. Conway in 1970. Life is really a simulation, not a game with players. It takes place on a rectangular grid in which each cell can either be occupied by an organism or not. Occupied cells are called
alive; unoccupied cells are called dead. Which cells are alive changes from generation to generation according to the number of neighboring cells that are alive


1. The neighbors of a given cell are the eight cells that touch it vertically, horizontally, or diagonally.
2. If a cell is alive but either has no neighboring cells alive or only one alive, then in the next generation the cell dies of loneliness.
3. If a cell is alive and has four or more neighboring cells also alive, then in the next generation the cell dies of overcrowding.
4. A living cell with either two or three living neighbors remains alive in the next generation.
5. If a cell is dead, then in the next generation it will become alive if it has exactly three neighboring cells no more or fewer that are already alive. All other dead cells remain dead in the next generation.
6. All births and deaths take place at exactly the same time, so that dying cells can help to give birth to another, but cannot prevent the death of others by reducing overcrowding, nor can cells being born either preserve or kill cells living in the previous generation.




if anyone has any information regarding this program plz let me know

How come you've only got one post then?

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The article on wikipedia is actually quite useful.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway's_Game_of_Life

hi..thanks for ur reply..i dont know that i have to attach code with my previous message....i have done some work on this code..what i did ,i have made 3 free functions...but could not able to print the generation's result in outputfile...plz take a look to my code and try to help me...


here is the code...


#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>
using namespace std;


const int ARRAY=10;



void load_init(char [ARRAY] [ARRAY]);

void print_grid (char [ARRAY] [ARRAY]);

void copy_array(char [ARRAY] [ARRAY], char [ARRAY][ARRAY]);

int main()
{



char life[ARRAY] [ARRAY];
int i;
unsigned int seed;
int num_of_gen;

ofstream outfile;
outfile.open("conway.txt");




cout<<"Please enter a number to initiate the grid(positive integers): ";
cin>>seed;
cout<<"Please enter the number of generations you would like to see.\n";
cout<<"(use more than 10 to make it interesting): ";
cin>>num_of_gen;
srand(seed);

load_init(life);

for(i=1; i<= num_of_gen; i++)
{

outfile<<"\nGeneration: "<< i <<"\n\n";
print_grid(life);

}
outfile.close();
return 0;
}


void load_init(char INITIAL[ARRAY] [ARRAY])
{

int y,x,z;

for(y=0; y<ARRAY;y++)
{
for(x=0;x<ARRAY;x++)
{
z=(int) (10.0*rand()/RAND_MAX+1.0);
if(z < 5)
INITIAL[y] [x]=' ';
else
INITIAL[y] [x]='*';

}
}
}




void print_grid(char INITIAL[ARRAY] [ARRAY])
{

int y,x;

ofstream outfile;
outfile.open("conway.txt");



outfile<<" ";
for(x=0;x<ARRAY;x++)




for(y=0; y<ARRAY;y++)
{

for(x=0;x<ARRAY;x++)
{

outfile<<INITIAL[y][x];
}

outfile<<"\n";
}
//outfile.close();
}



void copy_array(char INITIAL[ARRAY][ARRAY], char COPY[ARRAY][ARRAY])
{
int y,x;

for(y=0;y<ARRAY;y++)
for(x=0;x<ARRAY;x++)
COPY[y][x]=INITIAL[y][x];
}