/awk-life

Conways Game of Life in awk

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I made this a few years ago already while being bored.
It's Conways Game of Life, written in awk.

There's a seed generator 

genlife.sh
and the actual game renderer 
life.sh

## genlife.sh -- Jun 25 2010, by Patsie
# generates random data for a first generation of Life
# usage: genlife.sh [<width> [<height> [<fill percentage>] ] ]
# defaults to a grid of 15x10 with 25% filling

Like the comment in the seed generator says, it accepts up to 3 parameters. A width, a height and a fill percentage
Since the game renderer has an extra statusbar line at the top and you need a free line at the bottom, you could generate a seed as big as your terminal like:

./genlife.sh $COLUMNS $((LINES-2))


## life.sh -- Jun 25 2010, by Patsie
# awk implementation of the Game of Life. A simple automata
# Usage: life.sh [<nr of runs> [<sleep interval>] ]

The game renderer takes a seed from stdin and runs it for a specified amount of frames/runs with a small 'sleep' interval in between each frame/run.
You can also specify these as arguments. To run for 100 frames with a 0.1 second sleep interval:

./life 100 0.1

Now lets combine the two to get something which actually produces some output:

./genlife.sh | ./life.sh
or
./genlife.sh $COLUMNS $((LINES-2)) | ./life.sh 100 0.1