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I am creating my own Conway's Game of Life program for my systems programming class. I have the main functions working but I am trying to get the universe to wrap around, it can tell that a cell is there, but it wont draw to it. Like if I do 2 squares on the left horizontal and one on the same line on the far right (same line), the program will make 3 vertical on the far left but it wont do the same vice versa.

My function that draws it it:
private void Timer_Tick(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {

            for (int i = 0; i < universe.GetLength(1); i++)
            {
                for (int k = 0; k < universe.GetLength(0); k++)
                {
                    bool result = false;
                    int n;
                    n = neighbors(i, k);
                    if (universe[i, k])
                    {
                        if (n < 2)
                            result = false;
                        if (n > 3)
                            result = false;
                        if (n == 2 || n == 3)
                            result = true;
                    }
                    else if (!universe[i, k])
                        if (n == 3)
                            result = true;
                    pad[i, k] = result;
                }

            }
            bool[,] temp = universe;
            universe = pad;
            pad = temp;


And my function that checks to see if they are touching is:
        private int neighbors(int x, int y)
        {
            bool lwall = true, uwall = true, rwall = true, dwall = true;
            if (x + 1 == 50)
                rwall = false;
            if (x - 1 == -1)
                lwall = false;
            if (y - 1 == -1)
                uwall = false;
            if (y + 1 == 50)
                dwall = false;
           
            int count = 0;
            if (rwall && universe[x + 1, y])
                count++;
            if (dwall && universe[x, y + 1])
                count++;
            if (lwall && universe[x - 1, y])
                count++;
            if (uwall && universe[x, y - 1])
                count++;
            if (dwall && rwall && universe[x + 1, y + 1])
                count++;
            if (uwall && rwall && universe[x + 1, y - 1])
                count++;
            if (dwall && lwall && universe[x - 1, y + 1])
                count++;
            if (uwall && lwall && universe[x - 1, y - 1])
                count++;
            if (!rwall && universe[x - 49, y])
                count++;
            if (!lwall && universe[x + 49, y])
                count++;
            if (!dwall && universe[x, y - 49])
                count++;
            if (!uwall && universe[x, y + 49])
                count++;
            if (!dwall && !rwall && universe[x - 49, y - 49])
                count++;
            if (!uwall && !rwall && universe[x - 49, y + 49])
                count++;
            if (!dwall && !lwall && universe[x + 49, y - 49])
                count++;
            if (!uwall && !lwall && universe[x + 49, y + 49])
                count++;
            return count;
        }


Thanks for any help
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Not 100% sure what the problem youre having is, any way you could explain it better?
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Xaldin wrote Not 100% sure what the problem youre having is, any way you could explain it better?


Basically what I need to happen is when it reaches the end of the screen, it needs to loop around back to the other side.
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