conway

An implementation of Conway's Game of Life, written in C++ with SDL2 and OpenCL

Table of Contents

• Getting Started
  • Dependencies
  • Building
• Usage
• Future Plans

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Getting Started

Dependencies

In order to run the game of life simulation, you must have the following packages installed on your system:

• SDL 2.0
• OpenCL 2.2.0 (with C++ wrapper).
• CMake
• A build system of your choice (e.g. Ninja, GNU Make, etc.)

Building

This program is built using CMake. To generate Ninja build files for the project, use the following command:

$ git clone https://github.com/bdreece/conway && cd conway
$ mkdir -p build && cd build
$ cmake -G Ninja ..
$ ninja

After compilation has finished, you should find an executable at build/src/conway!

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Usage

conway expects a number of command line arguments, as described below:

./conway WIN_SIZE CELL_SIZE SEED DELAY

The WIN_SIZE parameter refers to the width/height of the window. Windows will be square. This must be an unsigned integer greater than 1.

The CELL_SIZE parameter refers to the width/height of each cell. Cells will be square. This must be an unsigned integer greater than 0 and less than WIN_SIZE.

The SEED parameter refers to the RNG seed used for generating initial conditions. This can be any valid unsigned integer.

The DELAY parameter refers to the delay (in milliseconds) between frames. This can be any valid unsigned long integer.

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Future Plans

I plan to flesh out the CLI for this program a little bit in the coming weeks, and I'll work on other issues as they arise.