conway {simecol}R Documentation

The Classical Coway's Game of Life

Description

simecol example: This model simulates a deterministic cellular automaton.

Usage

data(conway)

Format

An S4 object according to the gridModel specification. The object contains the following slots:

main
Functions with the state transition rules of Coway's Game of Life.
parms
A list with two vector elements:
srv
number of neighbours, necessary to survive,
gen
number of neighbours, necessary to generate a new cell.
times
Number of time steps to be simulated.
init
A matrix, giving the initial state of the cellular grid (default: random).

Details

To see all details, please have a look into the implementation.

References

Gardner, Martin (1970) The Fantastic Combinations of John Conway's New Solitaire Game 'Life.' Scientific American, October 1970.

See Also

sim, parms, init, times.

Examples

    data(conway)
    plot(sim(conway))

    # more interesting start conditions
    m <- matrix(0, 40, 40)
    m[5:35,19:21] <-1
    init(conway) <- m
    plot(sim(conway), col=c("white", "green"), axes=FALSE)

    # change survival rules
    parms(conway) <- list(srv=c(3,4), gen=c(3,4))
    plot(sim(conway), col=c("white", "green"), axes=FALSE)
    ## Not run: 
    init(conway) <- matrix(0, 10, 10)
    fixInit(conway) # enter some "1"
    sim(conway, animate=TRUE, delay=100)
    
## End(Not run)

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