This is an Elixir implementation of Conway's game of life, purely done as an exercise for Elixir practice.
Supposing you load the app with iex -S mix:
iex> world = GameOfLife.game_of_life(10) # generates a new world and does 10 steps of the simulation
iex> GameOfLife.World.print_world world # displays the world in a slightly easier to read format
iex> world_2 = GameOfLife.simulate_iterations(1, world) # performs one step of the simulation on 'world'
game_of_life.ex
This is the entry point to the simulation. You can either let game_of_life\1 generate a random world
to use as your initial seed, or you can construct your own (it's a simple 2D array of integers, 0 for
dead cells and 1 for live cells) and pass a number of iterations and the world into simulate_iterations\2.
simulate.ex
Here's all the logic for proceeding in the simulation, along with a LOT of helper methods for determining each cell's procession.
world.ex
This has functions for creating and printing worlds.