https://github.com/jelni/game-of-life

Conway's Game of Life Rust implementation using a point quadtree data structure.
https://github.com/jelni/game-of-life

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Conway's Game of Life Rust implementation using a point quadtree data structure.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/jelni/game-of-life
• Owner: jelni
• Created: 2023-05-28T00:57:34.000Z (over 1 year ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2024-10-20T17:19:18.000Z (3 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-12-24T05:04:05.867Z (18 days ago)
• Topics: conways-game-of-life, game-of-life
• Language: Rust
• Homepage: https://game-of-life.jel.gay/
• Size: 43 KB
• Stars: 0
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md

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# Conway's Game of Life

I haven't programmed a Game of Life before, so here's my attempt:

[Conway's Game of Life](https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_Game_of_Life) Rust

implementation using a

[point quadtree](https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadtree#Point_quadtree) data

structure.

The use of a quadtree allows the board to be infinite.

![Screenshot of the program showing a Gosper's glider gun](https://github.com/jelni/game-of-life/assets/25802745/b2b9f12f-f097-4e7e-a405-3e230640680c)

## Interactions

-   Right mouse button – add cells

-   Left mouse button – remove cells

-   Middle mouse button – pan

-   Mouse wheel – zoom in and out

-   Space – pause or resume

-   N – go forward one step

-   Ctrl+Z – go back to the last resume state

## Thoughts on the [`macroquad`](https://github.com/not-fl3/macroquad) crate

This crate is easy to use and renders the screen using a GPU shader, but I don't

like how there's an implicit global window instance and that every value (window

size, mouse position, scroll distance) is a float. It also doesn't support arrow

keys. I didn't find a crate I liked more.