efyang / conway-piston

Conway's Game of Life using Piston

conway-piston

Conway's Game of Life using Piston

Controls:

• Esc => Exit
• R => Reset to previous seed
• G => New random seed
• S => Save Seed
• V => Save current value
• C => Delete all saved seeds
• E => Edit mode
• P => Pause
• N => Normal/Default mode

Commandline Arguments:

• -h --help - gives help documentation
• -w --width - sets a custom window width
• -h --height - sets a custom window height
• -s --seed - sets a custom starting seed, overrides width and height
• -m --mode - sets the starting mode to use: default/normal, pause, edit
• -a --alive - sets a hex color for live tiles
• -d --dead - sets a hex color for dead tiles

Todo:

• Change all vectors to arrays to take advantage of stack vs heap allocation all values in rust are default stack allocated
• Parallel Checking
• Saving and reading seeds
• Seed editing mode
• Commandline arguments for starting mode
• Commandline arguments for colors (hex)

Uses MattWoelk's snake-piston and xairy's rust-sudoku as a general template (piston examples aren't very good)