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LifeSim

LifeSim at Mac App Store analyse

Sergey Ilyevsky
448 ratings · Power index: 320
Version 1.2.1
Size 5.23 Mb
Updated 9 years ago
Released 21 Jul 2010

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Description

LifeSim is a simulator for Conways Game of Life on an infinite grid. Features: • Infinite grid: explore huge civilizations on your iphone without the limits of finite or torus grids • Easy controls: drag to scroll, pinch to zoom, tap to toggle cells states • Hundreds of known patterns: explore them or use them as building blocks • Quick-start Game of Life tutorial What is Conways Game of Life? Game of Life is a famous model devised by John Conway in 1970. Imagine a universe existing of square cells on an infinite flat grid. A cell can contain life or be empty. At each game step, live cells can stay alive, die, or multiply - according to 3 simple rules: • if a live cell had less than 2 live neighbors (at the previous state), it dies of loneliness • if a live cell had more than 3 live neighbors, it dies of overcrowding • if a dead cell had exactly 3 live neighbors, it comes to life Now imagine a civilization starting from 3 cells placed in a row. What will it evolve into? Can there be still patterns in this universe? Yes, the simplest one is 2x2 rectangle. Is it possible to build a civilization that will move across the universe? Yes, there are such "spaceships", and the smallest one consists of just 5 cells, so you can even try to discover it yourself. LifeSim brings this amazing universe into your pocket. Tap on a few cells and see what they will evolve into. Or explore hundreds of known beautiful patterns. Or try to protect a still life from a spaceship moving towards it. More information about Game of Life can be found at LifeWiki (http://www.conwaylife.com/wiki/). LifeSim comes with a quick-start Game of Life tutorial (tap the help button).

Estimates

Monthly Downloads > 7.04k
Est. Revenue ~ $2.88k

Availability

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Pricing by country

Country Price
Canada 2.79 CAD
China 12 CNY
France 2.29 EUR
Germany 2.29 EUR
Italy 2.29 EUR
Netherlands 2.29 EUR
Portugal 2.29 EUR
Spain 2.29 EUR
Poland 2.29 EUR
UK 1.99 GBP
India 160 INR
Japan 240 JPY
Poland 8.99 PLN
Russia 149 RUB
Turkey 6.99 TRY
USA 1.99 USD
Korea, Republic Of 2.19 USD
Ukraine 1.99 USD

Beste App zu Conways Game of Life

Fiodorus Tannenbaum · 13 years ago · v1.1.1

Ich habe mehrere Apps zu Conways Game of Life ausprobiert: Dies ist die beste und professionellste App. Der Maßstab kann stufenlos gezoomt werden, die Eingabe eigener Muster geht einfach, und die Entwicklung einer Startgeneration durchläuft nicht nur automatisch alle Generationen sondern kann auch manuell Schritt für Schritt angezeigt werden. Die App wäre optimal, wenn man eine selbst eingegebene Generation Null speichern könnte und zudem die Generationen ab Generation Null automatisch hochgezählt würden.

Saving?

Game Centre Game · 15 years ago · v1.1

This would be so much more if I could save my designs.

восхитительно!!!

isayve · 14 years ago · v1.1

Сделайте возможность сохранения поля! Спасибо!

Very cool.

Awkward frog · 15 years ago

Fun to play with and to guess whatll happen next.

takes some time to figure out

slomper · 15 years ago

once you get the hang of what your doing it is pretty interesting, if there was a tutorial-type intro to the game that step by step taught you how to use it, it would be a lot more easy. beside this the app is very fluid and easy to use, also very interesting to mess with the populations that you create.

Excellent implementation of Conways Game of Life

mg1937 · 15 years ago

I was fascinated by John Conways Game of Life when it first appeared in Martin Gardners October, 1970, Mathematical Games column in Scientific American. In the succeeding 40 years, I have owned many personal computers, and I put a version of the game on all of them. Now Ive got LifeSim for my iPod Touch, and it id one of the best implementations of all. This is the classic version; there are no variations or extensions. The user interface is very clean and simple. It works very well. Im glad the developer concentrated on given the user control over the indefinitely large cell space, rather than wasting effort on fancy artwork. With LifeSim you can really study the endlessly fascinating Game of Life. You wont get quickly bored with this app. There is a large literature on this game. Start with Wikipedia if you new to the game.

Learning curve

mbx21 · 15 years ago

I have yet to figure out what Im doing in this app. That said, its still pretty fun to press boxes, zoom out, and see the consequences of your actions over many generations.