C implementation of Conway's Game of Life simulator made for my university assigment.
Main features:
- read first generation from file
- simulate it given number of times
- generate a given number of
PNGfiles - modify rules of the game (either by file or directly from terminal)
All the options are listed in the Usage section.
The program is meant to run on Linux and wasn't tested on other platforms.
Makefile is included, so you can compile it simply by typing make in termial, which creates an executable bin/life_sym file.
You can also compile it with debug flag make DEBUG=1 -B which creates bin/life_sym_debug with additional output messages.
You can clean everything up (except results) with make clean.
./life_sym [options]
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-i, --input=<str> path to input file
-n, --generation_number=<int> number of generations to simulate
-p, --photos_number=<int> number of photos to generate
-s, --scale=<int> graphic enlargement scale factor (default: 2)
-d, --dir=<str> results directory (default: results)
-D, --photo_dir=<str> photos subdirectory (default: gfx)
-r, --random creates random net; overrides input file
-m, --mod_file=<str> path to rules modification file
-M, --mod_input=<str> rules modification string
Options: --input, --generation_number and --photos_number are required to run program.
Sample input files are included in the sample directory.
Input net file contains:
- Grid dimensions (2D)
- Coordinates of living cells
Rules file is made of:
- Numbers of living neighbors on which living cell remain alive
- Slash (
/) - Numbers of living neighbors on which dead cell becomes alive
So the standard rules in that format are 23/3.
- C standard library
- C POSIX library
- libpng
- argparse (included)
Feel free to use, ask, fork, star, report bugs, fix them, suggest enhancements and point out any mistakes.
Developed and maintained by Paweł Adamczak.
Released under MIT License.