Nito

Sandbox cellular automata simulation

Building and running

The simulation server is written in rust and therefore is cross-platform. The graphical frontend is written in C++ and uses SFML, so it is also cross-platform.

Requires Rust and Cargo.

cargo build --release
cargo run

The client is written in C++ and uses SFML. It is unix-only because of utilization of Unix sockets.

Requires SFML and CMake.

cmake -S . -B build
cmake --build build
./build/nito

Features:

Technical

• Simulation is implemented on a Rust backend
• Graphical frontend is implemented in C++ using SFML
• Multithreaded frontend and backend
• Flexible frontend window dimensions
• Simulation can vary in size and speed

Elements

• Water: falls and spreads
• Sand: falls and piles up
• Wood: stays in place, burns into embers
• Fire: flickers and decay
• Smoke: rises and decays, generated from burning embers
• Embers: generates fire and smoke, decays, turns into charcoal upon contact with water
• Charcoal: stays in place, burns into embers

Authors

• Erwan Gonzales
• Clovis Rabot