README.md

Rucomato

Description

An implementation of different cellular automata in Rust.

Requirements

• Rust
• libsdl2

  sudo apt install libsdl2-dev libsdl2-gfx-dev libsdl2-image-dev libsdl2-mixer-dev libsdl2-net-dev libsdl2-ttf-dev

Basic functionality

• Press "p" to pause the simulation.
• Press "ESC" to quit the simulation.

Implemented automata

Rule 30

On console:

cargo run -- rule30 console

In SDL2 window:

cargo run -- rule30 sdl2

Rule 90

On console:

cargo run -- rule90 console

In SDL2 window:

cargo run -- rule90 sdl2

Rule 110

On console:

cargo run -- rule110 console

In SDL2 window:

cargo run -- rule110 sdl2

Rule 184

On console:

cargo run -- rule184 console

In SDL2 window:

cargo run -- rule184 sdl2

Conway's Game of Life

On console:

cargo run -- gol console

In SDL2 window:

cargo run -- gol sdl2

Seeds

On console:

cargo run -- seeds console

In SDL2 window:

cargo run -- seeds sdl2

Langton's ant

On console:

cargo run -- lant console

In SDL2 window:

cargo run -- lant sdl2

Brian's Brain

On console:

cargo run -- bb console

In SDL2 window:

cargo run -- bb sdl2

Wireworld

On console:

cargo run -- wireworld console

In SDL2 window:

cargo run -- wireworld sdl2

TODO:

General

• Mouse interaction for SDL2 to place/influence cells
• Move into the third dimension
• Sound synthesis
• Custom actions to control the automata (probably useful in Ising model for temperature control)

Possible additional automata

Possible other interesting automata to implement in no particular order:

• Ising model
• Lattice gas automaton
• Von Neumann cellular automaton
• Codd's cellular automaton
• CoDi
• Langton's loops
• Nobili cellular automata