Yet Another Conway's Game of Life

yacgol is a pure Python implementation of Conway's Game of Life using Tkinter.

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, or, for advanced players, by creating patterns with particular properties.

At each step in time, the following transitions occur:

1. Any live cell with fewer than two live neighbors dies, as if by under population.
2. Any live cell with two or three live neighbors lives on to the next generation.
3. Any live cell with more than three live neighbors dies, as if by overpopulation.
4. Any dead cell with exactly three live neighbors becomes a live cell, as if by reproduction.

• Conway's Game of Life Wikipedia page

Installing

$ pip install yacgol
$ yacgol -h

Using

Most interactions with yacgol will take place within the Tkinter UI. So fire up yacgol and check it out!

Developing

First, install development packages:

$ pip install -r requirements-dev.txt

Testing

$ nose2

Linting

$ flake8

Coverage

$ nose2 --with-coverage