Life Genesis
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LifeGenesis was part of the Microsoft Entertainment Pack
. Based on Conway's Game of Life
, it allowed players to design opening states and watch their progression, but it also allowed for play against the computer. In this version, the computer's cells were shown in red and the player's in blue. On each turn, the player or computer could add a cell of their own color and delete one of their opponents'. All the rules for generation followed Conway's except that new cells' colors were determined by the color of their neighboring cells: the cell would take on the same color as the majority of its neighbors.
Microsoft Entertainment Pack
The original Microsoft Windows Entertainment Pack is a collection of simply-designed 16-bit computer games for Windows. These games were somewhat unusual for the time, in that they would not run under MS-DOS. Many of the games were later released in the Best of Windows Entertainment Pack...
. Based on Conway's Game of Life
Conway's Game of Life
The Game of Life, also known simply as Life, is a cellular automaton devised by the British mathematician John Horton Conway in 1970....
, it allowed players to design opening states and watch their progression, but it also allowed for play against the computer. In this version, the computer's cells were shown in red and the player's in blue. On each turn, the player or computer could add a cell of their own color and delete one of their opponents'. All the rules for generation followed Conway's except that new cells' colors were determined by the color of their neighboring cells: the cell would take on the same color as the majority of its neighbors.
External links
- http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/loadFile.do?objectId=4798&objectType=FILE - free Matlab implementation of life genesis game.