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the next generation
We're now ready to produce the next generation acording to the rules:
- Any live cell with fewer than two live neighbours dies, as if caused by underpopulation
- Any live cell with more than three live neighbours dies, as if by overcrowding.
- Any live cell with two or three live neighbours lives on to the next generation.
- Any dead cell with exactly three live neighbours becomes a live cell.
The trick is to set up an empty temp array and to generate the next generation in it.
When complete, overwrite g_squares with the contents of temp.
Why not have a go before looking at my gen() function?
One tip: I avoided the problem of the neighbours function on the edges by not including the edges in my checking of each cell.
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