public int NumberOfSurroundingLivingCells(Map grid)
{
Coordinate[] surroundingCoordinates = SurroundingCoordinates();
int number = 0;
foreach (Coordinate coordinate in surroundingCoordinates)
{
LivingCell testCell = grid.FindCellAtCoordinate(coordinate);
if (testCell != null)
{
number++;
}
}
return(number);
}
var ParseSpawnRule(int ruleNumber)
{
if (ruleNumber < 1 || ruleNumber > 8)
{
throw new ArgumentOutOfRangeException();
}
var rawCellsToSpawn = new List <Coordinate>();
foreach (LivingCell cell in _map.LivingCells.Values)
{
foreach (Coordinate candidate in cell.Coordinate.SurroundingCoordinates())
{
int surroundingNumber = candidate.NumberOfSurroundingLivingCells(_map);
bool candidateIsLivingCell = _map.FindCellAtCoordinate(candidate) != null;
if (surroundingNumber == ruleNumber && !candidateIsLivingCell) //If the number matches, but also if the candidate doesn't exist already
{
rawCellsToSpawn.Add(candidate); //we desire to only check the neighbours of the living cells from this state,
} //not the neighbors of living cells being added in the foreach loop, hence the new list
}
}
return(rawCellsToSpawn);
}