| Game: Alive |
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Invented by John Conway, 1970
Implemented by Karl Scherer, 2000-12-30
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3 variants
Educational
Solitaire
Classic
download 32 K
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Updated 2002-12-14
- board now twice as large |
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This is a version of Conway's Game of Life. (3 variants)
At the start you will see what is called a 'glider'.
Click the black square to select a colour.
Click the board to place coloured cells on the board.
Repeatedly click an existing cell to change its colour to any other colour or to delete it.
Select how many generations of cells you want to create in one go:
Button '1' creates one new generation of cells, and so on.
Button 'oo' creates an infinite number of new generations.
Depending on the number of neighbours of a cell, certain cells will die, others will be born on empty squares. These conditions can be controlled by clicking the 16 'Y' buttons.
A newly born cell has the colour of the colour selection button.
If a cell stays alive more than one generation, its colour cycles through black, blue, red, yellow.
The 'Border' option determines whether the area outside the board is treated as wrapping around (north and south border joined, east and west border joined), or as permanent, living cells ('solid') or as permanently empty.
Variant 2: Oscillator of period 8
Variant 3: Methuselah : Click 'oo' and see what happens.
Note that there are six different piece sets (squares, triangles and triangles/squares mixed).
Version 3.1: Wrapped border option introduced. Wrapped border is now default. 'Draw-by-repetition' now made impossible. '30' button and 'oo' = 'infinitely many generations' option added. Variants now display different setups, not piece sets.
For more freeware as well as real puzzles and games see my home page http://karl.kiwi.gen.nz.
You will also find there a very sophisticated version of ALIVE with about 100 options. |
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