A command line program implementing Game of Life.
This program takes a starting generation from the input and outputs PNG file images of each successive generations. These images can be used as frames of a video to show the progress of an initial state.
You need libpng for compiling
simply run make
it will compile into pngol
Make a directory for pictures:
mkdir output
cd output
Generate pictures here from random initial state with default width and height number of cells:
../pngol 0 100
This will make life_00000.png to life_00100.png.
To make an mp4 file from the pictures in current directory (uses ffmpeg):
../scripts/png_to_mp4.sh
or see png_to_gif.sh to make a gif.
See ffmpeg documentation for more.
A state file is an ascii text file containing height number of lines of width length made up of only 0 and 1 characters.
A 10x5 example:
0010000000
1010000000
0110000000
0000000000
0000000000
example:
mkdir output
cd output
../pngol 0 35 ../example_states/glider.txt
../scripts/png_to_gif.sh
Edit config.c. To change the default number of cells, change WIDTH and HEIGHT, set SCALE to desired width of each cell in pixels.
You can also change the RGB values of background (dead cells) and foreground (alive cells).
compile again for changes to take effect.