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# gLife

# Introduction

`gLife` is an artificial life implementation using GNOME as its front-end. It uses some principles of cellular automata. It's similar in appearance to Conway's "Game of Life" but uses very different rules. Eventually it should demonstrate growth of little societies.

What this means for those not into AI is that `gLife` draws a grid, populates it with animals represented by blobs of different colours, and then updates the grid. You can watch the animals grow in numbers, group together, move away, reproduce, and eventually die (aww).

You can configure much of the appearance of gLife to your own preferences, although the rules for how the animals behave remain the same.

`gLife` is a work in progress, as is this guide to it. The documentation may lag. This documentation was last updated to describe gLife version 0.2.

Start glife by typing glife at the command line, or by selecting Programs->Games->gLife.

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