https://github.com/lloydmeta/gol-rs

Conway's Game of Life in Rust + OpenGL
https://github.com/lloydmeta/gol-rs

game-of-life gfx gfx-rs opengl parallel-processing rayon rust

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Conway's Game of Life in Rust + OpenGL

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/lloydmeta/gol-rs
• Owner: lloydmeta
• License: mit
• Created: 2017-06-13T17:55:13.000Z (over 7 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2023-11-17T11:47:53.000Z (about 1 year ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-09-30T15:50:29.971Z (4 months ago)
• Topics: game-of-life, gfx, gfx-rs, opengl, parallel-processing, rayon, rust
• Language: Rust
• Size: 2.75 MB
• Stars: 5
• Watchers: 5
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.MD

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# Game of Life [![CI](https://github.com/lloydmeta/gol-rs/actions/workflows/ci.yml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/lloydmeta/gol-rs/actions/workflows/ci.yml)

Conway's Game of Life implemented in Rust and OpenGL via [`gfx-rs`](https://github.com/gfx-rs).

Done as an exercise to practise Rust and get my feet with with OpenGL.

Areas explored:

  * General rendering

  * Vertex, fragment shaders

  * [Pipeline state objects](https://gfx-rs.github.io/2016/01/22/pso.html)

  * [Rayon](https://github.com/nikomatsakis/rayon) for parallel processing

  * Building and deploying cross-platform binaries via GH Actions

![gol running](gol.gif)

## Usage

You can run the executable by downloading one of the binaries in [releases](https://github.com/lloydmeta/gol-rs/releases), or

via `cargo install gol`, then running `gol`, or if you've cloned the repo,`cargo run`.

```bash

OPTIONS:

    -h, --grid-height         Height of the grid [default: 80]

    -w, --grid-width           Width of the grid [default: 100]

    -u, --update-rate         Number of updates to the game board per second [default: 30]

        --window-height     Height of the window [default: 768]

        --window-width       Width of the window [default: 1024]

```

If running via `cargo`, options need to be passed by appending `--`, i.e. `cargo run -- -h 10 -w 10`.

## Todo

  * Optimise!