Rust implementation of Conway's Game of Life. Supports both random life generation as well as seeding with standard RLE life files, or my own JSON format.
game-of-life
An implementation of Conway's Game of Life.
USAGE:
gameoflife [OPTIONS]
FLAGS:
-h, --help Prints help information
-V, --version Prints version information
OPTIONS:
-c <COLS> Number of columns in the grid
-f, --config-filepath <config-filepath> Board configuration file. Supports custom JSON or standard RLE. See
http://www.conwaylife.com/wiki/Run_Length_Encoded for more info.
-p <rand-density> Probability that a spot is alive at the beginning - [0,1]
--rate <rate> Speed of the refresh cycles in miliseconds
-r <ROWS> Number of rows in the grid
./gameoflife -f ./simple_glider.rle -r 10 -c 40
Board size: rows: 10, cols: 40
┌────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ ● │
│ ● │
│●●● │
│ │
│ │
│ │
│ │
│ │
│ │
│ │
└────────────────────────────────────────┘
where ./simple_glider.rle is:
#C This is a glider.
x = 3, y = 3, rule = B3/S23
bo$2bo$3o!