A very simple (but not super efficient) implementation of Conway's Game of Life in Rust, with periodic boundary conditions and random state flip.
- a Rust 2021 compiler (rustc version 1.56.0 or up is recommended)
- Cargo
- (optionally) a terminal emulator with a square font
Run cargo build --release, or (if you have make and all the reauired Rust crates installed) make.
The runnable executables will be found in target/release.
This crate comes with several example executables. Those named collision, glider, and pulsar are simple example running on the terminal (they work better with a square font). The executable collision_w is a simple example using a graphical interface. The executable random choses a starting configuration ar random and shows its evolution using the graphical interface. Finally, the main executable (game_of_life) starts from the configuration in initial_state.csv and shows its evolution using the graphical interface.
The last three one use the config file Config.csv to set the waiting time between frames, the pixel size, board dimension (if not specified by the initial state; this part of the config file is currently only used by random), colours, and robability of random flip per pixel and per frame.