Naive Implementation Documentation

The naive implementation of Conway's game of life uses a string to store the state of the universe's state, using the following convention:

• . represents a dead cell
• o represents a live cell

The information about the universe (width, height, number of simulation steps and cells' state) is stored in a universe structure.

Installation

• To compile a user-ready solution of the naive implementation, use make naive
• To compile all executables of the naive implementation, including tests, use make naive-compile-all

Usage

• app-naive-loader to load a universe from a source textfile and print it as is to the console.

./app-naive-loader filename

Options:
  filename: source textfile (see formatting above)

• app-naive-conway to load a universe from a source textfile and execute the given amount of simulation steps.

./app-naive-conway [-ipt?] filename

Options:
  -i: generate image output for each step
  -p: print simulation steps to the console
  -t: consider the universe as a torus
  -?: print source textfile formatting help
  filename: source textfile to load the universe from