/Internship-WS22-CCA-Game-of-Life

Primary LanguageC

Continuous Game of Life

Project aiming to implement the Continuous Game of Life leveraging the power of Shaders. You can find more information about the Continuous Game of Life and especially Lenia here: https://chakazul.github.io/lenia.html

Finished

  • Game of Life (with Compute and Fragment Shaders)
  • Game of Life with a Kernel (Fragment Shader)
  • Game of Life with a Kernel+Growth method (Fragment shader)
  • Larger than Life (Fragment Shader)
  • Continuous States (Fragment Shader)
  • Continuous Space (Fragment Shader)
  • Smooth Kernel (Fragment Shader)
  • Smooth Growth / Lenia (Fragment Shader)
  • Using Fast Fourier Transformation to improve performance when calculating the next states.

How to build

mkdir cmake-build
cd cmake-build
cmake ..
make

How to run

You can either run the executable in cmake-build or run one of the scripts in the benchmarks folder to create a benchmark. You might want to run ./max_resolution beforehand to find the maximum output resolution your GPU supports.