Hexagonal Game of Life

Conway's Game of Life on a hexagonal grid.

How to Use

Requirements

This program requires Python 3.6.
All other requirements are listed in requirements.txt and can be installed with Pip:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Configuration and Start

General Settings

General settings can be found in game.py. The following attributes are available:

• RULE_CONFIGURATION: Regulations for cell birth and death.
• GRID_CONFIGURATION: Cell radius, grid size and grid cropping
• COLOR_CONFIGURATION: Color palette settings
• SPEED: Transition speed of gif frames

Game

A new game can be started by calling the play() method of a Game instance.

The Game constructor takes up to two parameters:

• seed: a 2 dimensional boolean array
• ticks: number of produced generations

Executing game.py will start a default game:

python game.py

Output

Generated .gif files are saved as 'game.gif' in the main program folder.