Conway's Game of Life in Rust

Features

• Terminal graphics
• Specify custom amount of columns and rows (-c <number>, -r <number>)
• Color cells by age
• Configurable speed in milliseconds (-t <number>)
• Multiple initialization modes (--init [random|empty|gauss])
• Terminal high resolution mode (-x)
• Mark patterns with red color (-m <filepath>)
• Insert patterns into canvas (-i <filepath>)
• Load .rle files
• Load .cells files
• Custom rules (--rule <rule>)

Build

cargo build --release

Run

cd target/release
./cgol

High Resolution Mode

Make the font size of your terminal very small (e.g. via Ctrl +/-). Then:

./cgol -x

This works best with fast terminal emulators (e.g. Alacritty).

Load Patterns

./cgol -i ../../patterns/glidergun.rle --init empty

Mark Patterns in Random Output

./cgol -m ../../patterns/block.cells

Custom Rules

Try some well-known life-like cellular automata!

./cgol --rule B0/S8