Conway's Game of Life

[Scott Ferguson]

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway's_Game_of_Life

and my video: http://youtu.be/vT3YSSkUzhQ

This started as a challenge on the Rosetta Code page, but I wanted it to be more general - allowing different sized grids and scenarios.

Based the 1970 game by John Conway, this game takes a specified population of villagers (green dots) who live in yurts (grey dots) and applies these rules:

• any villager (green dot) surrounded by less than 2 or more than 3 villagers perishes
• when an empty yurt (gray dot) is surrounded by exactly 3 villagers, a villager is born

Fun to watch.