Conway's Game of Life - Scala

A scala implementation of Conway's Game of Life. This implementation takes in an input file and returns the result after a given number of iterations or ticks. The the number of cells in each iteration logged to population.out

Created as part of CMPT 470 Winter 2021 Term.

Compile & Execution

sbt can be used to build and run the Scala implementation GoL:

`sbt compile`
`sbt "run [-h][-t <ticks>][-g <geo>] <input_file> <output_file>"`

Options

`-h`          displays the program usage
`-t <ticks>`  sets the number of ticks/iterations to run the program for, 
                represented by the positive integer <ticks>
`-g <geo>`    sets the geometry type. Valid geometry types include:
                    `f` --- flat 
                    `c` --- cylindrical
                    `t` --- toroidal 

Arguments

`input_file` - the path to an input text file
`output_file` - the path to an output text file

Example Usage

sbt "run -t 1000 inputs.txt output.txt"

File Format

The first line in the file should contain the number of rows, $M$, and the number of columns, $N$, separated by a space ' '. The rest of the file should be $M$ by $N$ characters where the character '*' represents cells that are "Alive" and a space ' ' represents cells that are "Dead".

Example

6 6

      
      
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