Application which brings Conway's game of life and other cellular automata to your terminal!
- pause and draw cells
- predefined cell setups
- cell setups from files, supports plain text files from the life wiki
- initial delay, so you can see the inital setup for some time
- configurable frames per second
- configurable cellular automata rules
- 24 bit colors
- customizable live and dead cell color
- fading dead cells
- screensaver mode, which resets the cell setup after a given number of frames
- rainbow colors
See termgol -h for all options a arguments.
cell setups from stdin- no raw mode after EOF:(- customizable live and dead cell character
- toroidal or sheet world
- hash life
In order to build and use this project you need the compiler for the rust programming language and a terminal emulator which knows how to handle 24 bit colors (e.g. iTerm2, Windows Terminal, xfce-terminal, alacritty, ...).
Clone, build with
git clone https://github.com/golmman/termgol.git
cd termgol
cargo build --release
You can then find the executable at ./target/release/termgol.
If you just want to try it out use cargo run --release.
Use
cargo install --path .
to install the application to the rust/cargo bin directory ($HOME/.cargo/bin)
which should be in you PATH after you installed rust.
Display the help page with termgol -h for all options and command
line arguments.
Some examples:
termgol -F 255 -c termgol --rainbow -r B0/S01234567
termgol -c examples/gliders.cells --rainbow
termgol -c acorn -r B2/S
termgol -c termgol -r B3/S012345678
termgol -c termgol -r B36/S125
termgol -F 1 -f 40 -r 'B357/S245' -c termgol
termgol -F 10 -c examples/konze.cells -r B345/S46
If you just want to try it out replace termgol with cargo run --release -- in the root directory, e.g.
cargo run --release -- -F 255 -c termgol --rainbow -r B0/S01234567
echo hello | figlet -f banner > examples/hello.cells
cargo run --release -- -c examples/hello.cells