Assignment 1

Please read the following short paper:

http://ddi.cs.uni-potsdam.de/HyFISCH/Produzieren/lis_projekt/proj_gamelife/ConwayScientificAmerican.htm

and implement John Conway’s Game of Life. You are encouraged (but not required) to use the following Java source code, which has a grid world and a number of useful methods already written for you.

http://www.ics.uci.edu/~wmt/courses/BiomoW04/GameOfLife.java

If you use this file, please insert your code at ~line 112. It should not be necessary to add any code outside this method, although you are welcome to alter and add to the rest of the code as you see fit. Note: In Eclipse, please set Run->Run…Parameters to Width = 500, Height = 540 for best viewing.

Please comment all code that you add so that it is clear what each section is doing.

Please email wmt@uci.edu if you have any questions.

Please email the entire file to wmt@uci.edu by Monday, 1/19/04 at noon.

Note: If you’d like a bigger challenge (not required), please adapt the code so that it uses the Von Neumann Neighborhood (see: http://mathworld.wolfram.com/vonNeumannNeighborhood.html

for more information) of range 1, 2 or 3 rather than the Moore Neighborhood that it currently uses, and consider the impact of this change on Conway’s genetic laws.