Page 1 of 4 Life isn’t a game it’s more something to explore –
and no I’m not talking about life but the cellular automata
invented by John Conway. To know more about the theory read The
Meaning of Life and for some up-to the minute news of
potentially important life forms see It's life but not ... If
you just want to find out how to build a program that runs Life
using WPF and C# read on. The project also contains a number of
interesting examples of how to use WPF and .NET 4 features to
make things simpler. The rules of Life are very simple. It is
played on a rectangular grid and each position in the grid is
referred to as a cell and it is either alive or dead but if you
don't want to use emotive terminology 1 or 0 or true or false
will do just as well! Starting from an initial configuration of
cells the number of live neighbours that each cell has is
counted. The neighbours are regarded as the eight cells that
surround a cell in the grid. What happens next depends on the
number of neighbours the cell has. -