This project contains different implementations of several cellular automaton like Conway's game of life or Lenia.
It all started as a pedagogical project to learn rust and web assembly with the rust/web assembly book.
The different simulations are running in an angular SPA and are rendered on a canvas.
The installation steps presume that the next software are installed on your machine:
- Node 20 and npm
- Rust and cargo
After cloning the repository and moving at the root of the folder, you can:
- Install dependencies with
npm i. - Build the project with
npx nx build life_game(nx will take care of the build dependency graph!). - Run the angular app with
npx nx serve pwa. - Go to
http://localhost:4200
- Generalize the Lenia implementation to many kernels and channels (see extended lenia here)
- The current Lenia implementation was made as a pedagogical project, without libraries optimized for mathematics. Therefore, it is pretty slow. It could be updated and use optimized libraries like ndarray and rustfft
- Add better simulation visualization and controls
- Have a look on Flow lenia that seems to be amazing!
All credits go to the next awesome references:
- rust/web assembly book
- Lenia
- Science Étonnante youtube channel [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-W0NX97DB0] and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlzV4aJ7iMI]
- Flow lenia