Conway's Game of Life

It's a cellular automaton.

Just create an initial configuration and observe how it evolves.

More information about the process on Wikipedia.

  To play, run main.py

 

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⚙️ Technologies employed

tkinter : the standard Python interface to the Tk GUI toolkit. See Docs.

NumPy : the fundamental package for scientific computing in Python. See Docs.

 

If not installed yet, run:

• using pip :

pip install python-tk

pip install numpy

For python 3 :

pip install python3-tk

pip3 install numpy

• on Linux :

sudo apt-get install python-tk

sudo apt-get install python-numpy

For python 3 :

sudo apt-get install python3-tk

sudo apt-get install python3-numpy

 

⚠️ Anything went wrong ?

 

• The tkinter module is not the same depending on your Python version.

If you get this while running the script:

ImportError: No module named 'Tkinter'

or

ImportError: No module named 'tkinter'

then try this changes inside the code

Python 2	Python 3
Tkinter	tkinter
MessageBox	messagebox

 

• If NumPy installation fails with this message:

IMPORTANT: PLEASE READ THIS FOR ADVICE ON HOW TO SOLVE THIS ISSUE!

Importing the numpy c-extensions failed. This error can happen for
different reasons, often due to issues with your setup.

then see Troubleshooting ImportError.

 

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🏷️ License

© 2022 Yacine BOUKARI

This application is under MIT License.

Read the LICENSE for further details.