Genetic Algorithms and Machine Learning for Programmers

Let’s Make Cellular Automata

Your cells live on a grid with a fixed Height and Width. You’ll need to know which cells are Alive, and you’ll want to Update them together, so make a World class to hold your grid and Update your cells:

Alive/GameOfLife/GoL.h

class World
{
public:
  World(size_t max_x, size_t max_y, bool wrap);
  World(size_t max_x, size_t max_y, bool wrap,
        size_t start_width, size_t start_height,
        size_t number);
  size_t Width() const { return max_x; }
  size_t Height() const { return max_y; }
  size_t Alive() const;

  bool Alive(size_t x, size_t y) const
  {
    return state[y*max_x + x];
  }

  void Spark(size_t x, size_t y)
  {
    if(Alive(x,y))
      throw std::invalid_argument( ...