ekitai.hs is a terminal fluid simulator written in haskell. it is a submission to RUHacks 2021. the simulation algorithm is quite simple, it's a similar particle based one that games like 'the sandbox' and 'terraria' use.
ekitai reads a text file with the desired simulation. samples can be found in the samples/ directory of this repo or at /usr/share/ekitai/samples. valid characters for the simulation are as follows
#: wall block~: water@: pump, spawns water below itO: drain, removes water around it
you can also consult the man page with man ekitai.
you can get the deb file from my site, the installation process is as follows
wget https://files.danieliu.xyz/repos/debian/ekitai.hs/ekitai.hs_1.0-1.deb
sudo dpkg -i ekitai.hs_1.0-1.deb
sudo apt-get install -f
simply get the pkgbuild from my site
mkdir ekitai.hs-git
cd ekitai.hs-git
wget https://files.danieliu.xyz/repos/arch/ekitai.hs/PKGBUILD
makepkg -si
as this project does not use stack or cabal or anything, haskell dependencies will have to be installed separately. this is a bit difficult to document since the packages varies by distro, for arch at least, the following are required
- ghc
- ghc-libs
- haskell-vector
- haskell-brick
and then simply run sudo make install.
why ekitai?
ekitai is fluid in japanese. since naming your projects in a different language is apparently cool.
why not in c?
c would have probably been one of the best choices to do this project in, but i wanted to add a bit of challenge by using a language that i didn't know.