https://github.com/dakizu/conway

A simple ANSI C implementation of Conway's Game of Life
https://github.com/dakizu/conway

ansi-c c89 console conway conways-game-of-life sdl2

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A simple ANSI C implementation of Conway's Game of Life

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/dakizu/conway
• Owner: dakizu
• License: mit
• Created: 2021-09-09T17:14:23.000Z (over 3 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2021-09-14T04:03:46.000Z (over 3 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-25T22:31:02.969Z (2 months ago)
• Topics: ansi-c, c89, console, conway, conways-game-of-life, sdl2
• Language: C
• Homepage:
• Size: 9.77 KB
• Stars: 1
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 2
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# Conway's Game of Life

This is a simple implementation of Conway's Game of Life written in C89 (ANSI C).

### Build

The makefile has two targets: **console** and **pixel**.

To build one of the targets, simply run `make console` or `make pixel`.

The **console** target simply defines CONWAY_CONSOLE and compiles conway.c.

This option requires no dependencies and displays the output of the program through printf().

Press the enter key to progress the simulation, and press Ctrl+C to exit.

The **pixel** target defines CONWAY_PIXEL and compiles conway.c as well as pixel.c.

This option requires SDL2 as a dependency and displays the output of the program through a graphical window.

Press any key on your keyboard to progress the simulation and click on the screen to set any cell at runtime.

### Files

Aside from the Makefile, README.md, and LICENSE files, this repository contains three source files: `conway.c`, `pixel.h`, and `pixel.c`.

`conway.c` contains the entire implementation of Conway's Game of Life as well as the abstracted rendering code for both of

the targets (hidden behind **CONWAY_CONSOLE** and **CONWAY_PIXEL** ifdefs respectively).

`pixel.h` contains the API for the pixel renderer used in the **pixel** target. This api is completely decoupled from SDL2 as I might

go back and implement more backends later as a learning exercise.

`pixel.c` contains the SDL2 implementation of the pixel renderer.