A Variation on Conway’s Game of Life
Winston Lee
EPS 109
The Game of Life
• A cellular automation developed by British mathematician John
Conway in 1970
• Based on a 2d grid of square cells
• Each cell is either in an alive or dead state
• Dead cells with 3 alive neighbors become alive
• Cells with 2 or 3 neighbors stay alive
• Above rules are encoded as “B3/S23”
Now With Hexagons
• Replace the 2d grid with hexagons – 6 neighbors now!
• Challenge: Mapping coordinates to hexagonal spaces
• More variation in rules, ex: “HighLife” which is B36/S23
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• Run my code with “conway”
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