This project loads a PNG image, converts it to a binary form and plays Conway's Game of Life on it.
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| Load PNG image - Use libpng | Turn it to binary form |
This program implements two version os Game of Life (GoL)
Conway's Game of Life with some patterns colored for better visibility.
Custom algorithm adds concept of stars which can explode. This brings more activity to the standard algorithm.
When star explores, it turns its surrounding to a random state.
There are two types of stars
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Small Star
- Visualised in orange 🟠
- One line consists of 3 cells
- Star explodes randomly
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Big star
- Visualised in red 🔴
- Consists of 3 separate lines
- Star explodes randomly
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| Custom GoL - Image shows small star (orange) in the middle of the screen exploding and turning into a big star (red) which later explodes too. | Standard GoL - Small and Big stars remains stable |
2724 steps has been generated from the same starting image shown above.
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| Standard Game of Life | Custom Game of Life |
Usage: img2gol INPUT_IMAGE PATTERNS_DIR OUTPUT_DIR NUM_STEPS SOLVER
Program that loads a PNG image, converts it to a binary form and runs Game of Life on it.
Arguments:
INPUT_IMAGE - PNG file to be loaded. Can be RGB or RGBA
PATTERNS_DIR - Directory where are stored pattern files provided with the software
OUTPUT_DIR - Directory where will be stored files of each step of Game of Life
NUM_STEPS - How many steps program should run Game of Life
SOLVER - 0 for standard Conway's Game of Life. 1 for Custom Game of Life algorithm
Custom Game of Life algorithm :
Custom Game of Life algorithm runs standard Conway's Game of Life with new concept of stars.
Star is a repeating pattern in shape of a star. There are two types of stars in my algorithm.
Star can explode at any time. When star explodes it changes its surrounding to a random state.
make runvalgrind
valgrind --leak-check=full ./pavelkral ./examples/test_image_forrest_crop.png ./assets/patterns/ ./examples/out 2 0
==1549== Memcheck, a memory error detector
==1549== Copyright (C) 2002-2017, and GNU GPL'd, by Julian Seward et al.
==1549== Using Valgrind-3.14.0 and LibVEX; rerun with -h for copyright info
==1549== Command: ./pavelkral ./examples/test_image_forrest_crop.png ./assets/patterns/ ./examples/out 2 0
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Input file - ./examples/test_image_forrest_crop.png
Pattern directory - ./assets/patterns/
Output directory - ./examples/out
Number of steps - 2
Solver type - 0
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Initializing standard Game of Life
Image saved to ./examples/out/0.png
Step : 0
Image saved to ./examples/out/1.png
Processing time 43.884953 s
Step : 1
Image saved to ./examples/out/2.png
Processing time 44.763950 s
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==1549== HEAP SUMMARY:
==1549== in use at exit: 0 bytes in 0 blocks
==1549== total heap usage: 6,210 allocs, 6,210 frees, 8,419,511 bytes allocated
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==1549== All heap blocks were freed -- no leaks are possible
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==1549== For counts of detected and suppressed errors, rerun with: -v
==1549== ERROR SUMMARY: 0 errors from 0 contexts (suppressed: 0 from 0)