Lexicon

A convenient interface to get patterns from the Lexicon and use them in your implementation of Conway’s Game of Life.

Usage

let lexicon = lexicon::Lexicon::get();
assert_eq!(lexicon.terms.len() > 0, true);

let glider = lexicon.get_term("glider".to_string()).unwrap();
assert_eq!(glider.width, 3);
assert_eq!(glider.height, 3);
assert_eq!(glider.cells, vec![
  lexicon::Cell { x: 0, y: 0 },
  lexicon::Cell { x: 1, y: 0 },
  lexicon::Cell { x: 2, y: 0 },
  lexicon::Cell { x: 0, y: 1 },
  lexicon::Cell { x: 1, y: 2 }
]);

Regenerate a bin file after an update of the text version

cargo run will read the file res/lexicon.txt, parse it and serialize the result into res/lexicon.bin, which will be used by the library then.