My problem is this; I have the logic just right enough that certain shapes will stay untouched forever but I can tell something isn’t right. After studying the rules for the game of life and then studying my code thoroughly, I can’t seem to find why my game of life is acting differently than Conway’…

Here are some tests you can check under “Example Patterns”: http://www.math.cornell.edu/~lipa/mec/lesson6.html Also, one reason they may not be working is because it doesn’t appear that you are using the rules correctly. These are the rules: Any live cell with fewer than two live neighbours dies …

I am guessing you are refreshing the board after every “square” you check? This way a square that “came to life” in this generation will also be counted as neighbour of a square that is checked after that (but in the same generation). So it will have a different number of neighbours when being check…

Thanks, guys. dhcodes, You are right about not needing the 8 cases but why should I use if/else statements instead? Correct me if I’m wrong but it shouldn’t matter if a cell is alive or not. The quantity of neighbors decides whether a cell(dead or alive) will live or die in the next generation. Ben…

If cell is alive and has two neighbors it’ll live. If cell is dead and has two neighbors it’ll stay dead.

Jenovs, I believe I have accounted for that by telling a square with two neighbors to stay as it is, whether dead or alive. I have made the update that BenGitter suggested and I think it is working properly now with one exception. For some reason the very first time it does the neighborCheck and re…

Help with Game of Life death/life logic

escottalexander April 19, 2017, 8:02pm 7

I have made it pretty far since the last issues I was having but ran into a snag with setting up setInterval with my “neighborChecking” function. I made a new thread since its a new problem.

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Help with Game of Life death/life logic

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