Conway's Game of Life in Rust with SDL2.
After cloning this repository, use cargo build to build a binary or cargo run to run
the application. Note that this application requires the SDL2 native library to
build.
We offer pre-built binaries for x86-64 Linux here.
Draw the pattern on the grid by clicking in the cells. Each click flips the state of the cell; i.e. a nonactive cell, when clicked, becomes active, and vice versa.
To begin the simulation, click the play button at the bottom of the grid. To pause it, click the pause button that will be located once the simulation has started playing. Note also that the grid size on screen may change as you resize the window, but the back-end simulation runs on a fixed 60x60 grid that wraps around on borders.
You may also adjust the speed of the simulation (or more accurately, the interval between updates of the simulation) through the slider on the bottom left. The number indicates the approximate number of milliseconds between each update of the grid.
The simulation by default is in the "VOID" type. This means that cells, once they reach the boundary of the grid, will "disappear" into a void. We have also implemented a "WRAP" type, which wraps the cells back around into the grid. You can toggle between these types using the button that displays either "VOID" or "WRAP" on the lower right corner.
You can zoom in and out of the grid, showing more cells or less cells as you like, by use of the mouse wheel or trackpad scroll.