Game of Life

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.scn File

/* This file contains a landscape event definition for Conway's Game of Life */ LSEVENT: GameOfLife

DEFINITIONS

  LAYER: CellState, PrevCellState
  GLOBAL VARIABLE: pInitial

ENDDEF

INITIALSTATE

  INITIALSTATE = 1
  CellState = IF UNIFORM(0,1) < pInitial THEN 1 ELSE 0

ENDIS

RETURNTIME

  RETURNTIME = 1
  PrevCellState = CellState

ENDRT

TRANSITIONS

 TRANSITIONS = TRUE

 numNeighbs = 0
 OVER REGION CENTRED(1,1.5, EUCLIDEAN)
    DECISION PrevCellState EQ 1
    numNeighbs = numNeighbs + 1
 ENDFN

 CellState = IF (CellState EQ 0) AND (numNeighbs EQ 3) THEN 1
             ELSE IF (CellState EQ 1) AND (2 <= numNeighbs <= 3) THEN 1
             ELSE 0

ENDTR