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Life Prolog

This is a simple implementation of the famous Conway's Game of Life in Prolog. My motivation was simply to implement something using a pure logical paradigm in order to get a better grasp of it.

Execution

To run the program, first make sure you have Prolog installed in your system.

Then, on your terminal:

  1. Navigate to the database file's (main.pl) directory.
  2. Run the command swipl to enter Prolog's environment.
  3. Run the command/consult run({NRows}, {NCols}), replacing {NRows} and {NCols} by the number of rows and columns that you want your simulation to have.
  4. Input either y to update the population and display it or n to abort (finish) the execution.

Here's what it should look like:

demo

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! What I implemented is very basic, but if you feel inspired, you may implement some stuff yourself! Here are some ideas:

  • Custom Initial World Input: allow the user to set the initial state of the world, instead of the default behavior of generating a random state.
  • World State Customization: allow the user to modify the state of cells during execution.
  • Automatic Population Update: user inputs the number of next steps to execute and the program runs them without the need of input.
  • Custom Updates' Time Step: let the user set a number of seconds or milliseconds between automatic population updates.
  • Pretty UI: displaying the game on the terminal is quick, easy and is feasible using pure prolog. If you're interested in trainning some frontend skills, you're more than welcome to implement a UI in whichever platform you choose: web, desktop, mobile (not sure if Prolog would work here), or whatever is feasible!