Conway's Game of Life TUI in Rust

Installation

• there are pre-built binaries for mainstream platforms: releases

having the Rust toolchain installed

• cargo install cgol-tui
• cargo install --locked --git "https://github.com/JeromeSchmied/cgol-tui-rs"
• clone the repo (git clone https://github.com/jeromeschmied/cgol-tui-rs) and run cargo install --locked --path .

Usage

cgol-tui --help

eg.:

• cgol-tui run the app with builtin patterns
• curl https://conwaylife.com/patterns/fx153.cells | cgol-tui - the - stands for stdin, run the app with the builtin patterns and the fx153 fetched with curl
• cgol-tui my_own_pattern.cells fx153.cells run defaults and two more, own patterns

Script

there is a fish script provided under scripts for viewing patterns from conwaylife.com

see fish scripts/pattern.fish --help

needed tools

• fish: shell
• curl: download

Sample

Todos

• initial tui support
• renaming on gh
• error handling
• publishing on crates.io
• changing to Canvas for rendering viewer block
• the ability to parse .cells files, from conwaylife.com
• display the names of patterns

Acknowledgements

• The core of this app is adapted from the Rust-Wasm tutorial.
• main dependencies:
  • ratatui: ui
  • crossterm: ratatui backend

License

Licensed under either of

• Apache License, Version 2.0, (LICENSE-APACHE or http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)
• MIT license (LICENSE-MIT or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)

at your option.

Contribution

Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in the work by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.