icasdri / gameoflife

Conway's Game of Life in Rust with piston

Conway's Game of Life

Conway's Game of Life implemented in Rust with piston (by default, graphics done by OpenGL).

Controls

To pan the field of view:

• Click and drag anywhere in the window, or
• Scroll up, down, left, or right (with e.g. a scroll wheel)

To zoom:

• Ctrl + to zoom in
• Ctrl - to zoom out
• Alternatively, hold Ctrl while scrolling up and down

Other controls:

• Click directly on a cell to toggle alive/dead
• Spacebar to pause/resume generation ticks
• [ and ] to slow down and speed up (respectively) generation ticks

Building

A recent Rust toolchain is required for building. Piston will use the pure-Rust glutin OpenGL context creation library by default (alleviating the need for linking against external libraries).

To build (a debug version):

cargo build

To build then run directly:

cargo run