Conway's Game of life in 3D

Conways game of lif in 3D using C++ and OpenGL.

The rules of the game are life 4 5 5 5, that is the rule set in which an alive cell will stay alive in the next generation if it has n live neighbors and 4 <= n <= 5 and a dead cell will become alive in the next generation if 5 <= n <= 5.

The choice of this rule as well as the more complicated structures come from Carter Bays, Candidates for the Game of Life in Three Dimensions

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⚙ Controls

The controls are heavely inspired by minecraft's commands.

To move around use the W, A, S and D keys.

Use Space and Shift to go up and down.

Place voxels with R click, Remove voxels with L click.

Access the debug menu through F3.

Exit with Esc.

Type commands with /.

Implemented commands are

• start which starts the simulation

• stop which stops the simulation

• reset which stops the simulation and resets all the voxels to their state before the simulation started

⚡ Installation

I would strongly recommend building the binaries from the source code using CMake. However I also have included a zip containing the output of the build process (for windows x64).