Coding Example: Game of life (NumPy approach)
Explore how to efficiently code the Game of Life simulation using NumPy's vectorization capabilities. Understand neighbor counting and rule enforcement in multi-dimensional arrays, and see how to replace loops with boolean indexing for faster execution.
We'll cover the following...
We'll cover the following...
NumPy Implementation
Starting from the Python version, the vectorization of the Game of Life requires two parts,
- one responsible for counting the neighbors
- one responsible for enforcing the rules
Neighbor-counting is relatively easy if we remember we took care of adding a null border around the arena. By considering partial views of the arena we can actually access neighbors quite intuitively as illustrated below for the one-dimensional ...