public static void CalculateNextGeneration(Cell thisCell)
{
if (thisCell != null)
{
thisCell.SetNextState();
CalculateNextGeneration(thisCell.nextCell);
thisCell.currentCellState = thisCell.nextCellState;
}
}
// recursive method to calculate the next state of every cell based on the current state of all neighbors
public static void CalculateNextGeneration(Cell thisCell)
{
// base case is if we reached thisCell.nextCell == null
if (thisCell != null)
{
// calculate the next state for the current cell
thisCell.SetNextState();
// recurse through the whole linked list of thisCell.nextCell (moves through all cells to the "right")
CalculateNextGeneration(thisCell.nextCell);
// after all next states have been calculated for the organism
// unfold the calling stack for every cell
// and set the current state = the next state
// (these are structures, so they can be copied by value)
thisCell.currentCellState = thisCell.nextCellState;
}
}
