Assignment 1/30/2007
Homework for:
Wednesday, January 31st:
Game of Life: Read the packet about this game. We are using it as a way to model population, not worrying about the underlying math.
Download the game from
Learn how to use the program (it's easy) and put in some of the basic forms to see how patterns become stable or how patterns can be made to 'migrate'.
Use the graph paper provided to plot some starting shapes of your own. Remember the 'rules' for the game: populated cells need 2-3 neighbors to survive. <1 or >4 neighbors means death for a populated cell. An empty cell with 3 neighbors is a birth cell and becomes populated.
Tuesday, January 30, 2007