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- goldfish
- ========
-
- **goldfish** (GoLdfish) is a simple Game of Life implementation in Java.
-
- Setup
- -----
-
- Clone the project with:
-
- git clone https://github.com/earwig/goldfish.git goldfish
-
- The simplest way to build and run it is with
- [Apache Ant](http://ant.apache.org/):
-
- cd goldfish
- ant run
-
- Alternatively, you can compile it using `javac` and run it with `java`:
-
- cd goldfish/src
- javac edu/stuy/goldfish/*.java edu/stuy/goldfish/rules/*.java
- java edu.stuy.goldfish.Goldfish
-
- Usage
- -----
-
- When you start goldfish, you will be presented with a
- [Gosper glider gun](http://www.conwaylife.com/wiki/Gosper_glider_gun) running
- under the standard
- [Conway's Game of Life](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway's_Game_of_Life)
- rules. The buttons allow you to pause/unpause the simulation, reset it to the
- default glider gun (or whatever the default pattern is for the chosen
- algorithm), randomize the grid, and clear it completely. The slider allows you
- to set the maximum FPS that the simulation will run at.
-
- By clicking on the screen and dragging your mouse, you can set the state of
- patches directly. This works best when paused. "Painting" over living patches
- will set their state as dead. In automata with muliple states, right-clicking
- will paint in a different state than left-clicking.
-
- The *algorithms* menu allows you to switch to different cellular automaton
- rulesets.
-
- ### Algorithms
-
- * **Conway**: a standard
- [Conway's Game of Life](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway's_Game_of_Life)
- simulator.
- * **Conway4**: equivalent to Conway, but patches use their
- [von Neumann neighborhood](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Neumann_neighborhood)
- instead of their
- [Moore neighborhood](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore_neighborhood).
- * **Life Without Death**: equivalent to Conway, but patches do not die.
- * [**Brian's Brain**](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian's_Brain): a
- three-state automaton with an "alive", "dying", and "off" state. Generally
- more chaotic than Conway with interesting patterns.
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