corona (version 0.3.0)

corona_life: Animate Conway's Game of Life

Description

The canvas (arena) wraps around vertically and horizontally! Execution will take some time. Results will be viewed differently depending on your system's default viewer for animated GIF files.

Usage

corona_life(
  pattern = "soup",
  side = 50,
  steps = 100,
  density = 0.3,
  filename = NULL,
  wrap = TRUE,
  fps = 20,
  pause = 10
)

Arguments

pattern

Defaults to 'soup' but there are many other well-known options: blinker ttetromino rpentomino toad beehive beacon clock pulsar pentadecathlon galaxy spaceship glidergun piheptomino switchengine conway acorn rabbits boring static patterns: block snake eater

side

The number of elements on the area's side (width or height)

steps

The number of frames

density

0.0--1 The density of the initial, random items ('soup')

filename

writes to this file name e.g. foo.gif (NULL for current GIF device)

wrap

Wrap around

fps

Frames per second

pause

Initial pause

Examples

# NOT RUN {
corona_life( filename='animation.gif', side=50, steps=500, density=0.2 ) 
corona_life( side=100, steps=1000, pattern='rpentomino', wrap=FALSE ) 
corona_life( side=30, steps=120, pattern='spaceship' ) 
corona_life( side=100, steps=400, pattern='switchengine' ) 
corona_life( side=20, steps=30, pattern='clock' ) 
corona_life( side=20, steps=30, pattern='galaxy' ) 
corona_life( side=100, steps=200, pattern='glidergun' ) 
corona_life( side=45, steps=130, pattern='conway', fps=8, pause=40)
# }