Parallel Programming
0024
Spring Semester 2010
May 6, 2010
What we do today
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Master solution mergesort assignment 8
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Assignment 9
 Game of Life
 MVC Pattern
 Swing Tutorial Links
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Conway‘s Game of Life
Wikipedia: The Game of Life, also known simply as Life,
is a cellular automaton devised by the British
mathematician John Horton Conway in 1970. It is the
best-known example of a cellular automaton.
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Assignment 9 Solution Demo
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GoL Rules
Any live cell with fewer than two live neighbours dies,
as if by needs caused by underpopulation.
Any live cell with more than three live neighbours dies,
as if by overcrowding.
Any live cell with two or three live neighbours lives,
unchanged, to the next generation.
Any dead cell with exactly three live neighbours
becomes a live cell.
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GoL: Glider
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GoL: Glider Gun
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GoL: Breeder
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MVC by Wikipedia
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MVC by Sun
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Swing Tutorials
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/uiswing/
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/uiswing/compo
nents/index.html
http://www.mm.informatik.tudarmstadt.de/courses/helpdesk/swing.html
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Questions
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