// Steps forward the specified amount of generations.
public void Step(uint steps = 1)
{
_stopwatch.Restart();
for (uint step = 0; step < steps; step++)
{
Generation++;
// Variable to act as a snapshot of the current state while we make changes.
var oldState = new CellCollection(this);
// Variable to hold the cells that we will check.
var checkCells = new List <Cell>(oldState);
// Adds all dead cells neighboring alive cells to the cells that we will check.
checkCells.AddRange(
from cell in oldState
from neighbor in GetNeighbors(cell.X, cell.Y)
where !checkCells.Contains(neighbor)
select neighbor);
foreach (var cell in checkCells)
{
byte neighbors = oldState.GetAliveNeighborsCount(cell.X, cell.Y);
/*
* Checks if the current cell is alive or not.
*
* If so, if the cell has less than 2, or more than 3 alive neighbors,
* the cell will be killed.
*
* If not, if the cell has 3 alive neighbors, the cell will be brought to life.
*/
if (oldState.Contains(cell.X, cell.Y))
{
if (neighbors < 2 || neighbors > 3)
{
Remove(cell);
}
}
else
{
if (neighbors == 3)
{
Add(cell);
}
}
}
}
_stopwatch.Stop();
}
public void Build(Grid grid)
{
if (grid == null)
{
return;
}
var unvisited = new CellCollection();
foreach (Cell cell in grid.GetCells())
{
if (cell != null)
{
unvisited.Add(cell);
}
}
unvisited.Remove(unvisited.Sample());
while (!unvisited.IsEmpty())
{
Cell cell = unvisited.Sample();
var path = new CellCollection();
path.Add(cell);
while (unvisited.Contains(cell))
{
cell = cell.Neighbors.Sample();
int position = path.IndexOf(cell);
if (position >= 0)
{
path.RemoveRange(position + 1, path.Count - position - 1);
}
else
{
path.Add(cell);
}
}
for (int i = 0; i < path.Count - 1; i++)
{
path[i].Link(path[i + 1]);
unvisited.Remove(path[i]);
}
}
}
private static void Print(this CellCollection state, Cell topLeft, Cell size)
{
const char alive = '#';
const char dead = ' ';
Console.WriteLine("Generation {0} [({1}, {2}), ({3}, {4})] ({5} live cells)",
state.Generation,
topLeft.X, topLeft.Y,
topLeft.X + size.X, topLeft.Y + size.Y,
state.Count);
for (int i = topLeft.Y; i <= topLeft.Y + size.Y; i++)
{
for (int o = topLeft.X; o <= topLeft.X + size.X; o++)
{
Console.Write(state.Contains(o, i) ? alive : dead);
}
Console.WriteLine();
}
Console.WriteLine("Generated in {0} ms.", state.MillisecondsToGenerate);
}