Agent-Based Models (Part 12)

Today I’d like to wrap up my discussion of how to implement the Game of Life in our agent-based model software called AlgebraicABMs.

Kris Brown’s software for the Game of Life is here:

• game_of_life: code and explanation of the code.

He now has carefully documented the code to help you walk through it, and to see it in a beautiful format I recommend clicking on ‘explanation of the code’.

A fair amount of the rather short program is devoted to building the grid on which the Game of Life runs, a...