Game of Life

PHP implementation of Game of Life.

How to run application

php run.php game:run -i input.xml -o output.xm

Parameter -i is optional, default value is input.xml. Parameter -o is optional, default value is output.xml.

Sample input

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<life>
    <world>
        <cells>4</cells> <!-- Dimension of the square "world" -->
        <species>1</species> <!-- Number of distinct species -->
        <iterations>10</iterations> <!-- Number of iterations to be calculated -->
    </world>
    <organisms>
        <organism>
            <x_pos>2</x_pos> <!-- x position -->
            <y_pos>0</y_pos> <!-- y position -->
            <species>0</species> <!-- Species type -->
        </organism>
        <organism>
            <x_pos>0</x_pos>
            <y_pos>1</y_pos>
            <species>0</species>
        </organism>
        <organism>
            <x_pos>3</x_pos>
            <y_pos>1</y_pos>
            <species>0</species>
        </organism>
        <organism>
            <x_pos>0</x_pos>
            <y_pos>2</y_pos>
            <species>0</species>
        </organism>
        <organism>
            <x_pos>3</x_pos>
            <y_pos>2</y_pos>
            <species>0</species>
        </organism>
        <organism>
            <x_pos>1</x_pos>
            <y_pos>3</y_pos>
            <species>0</species>
        </organism>
    </organisms>
</life>

How to run tests

Tests are written in PHPUnit.

composer test