Crate rlifesrc_lib

Rust Life Search, or rlifesrc, is a Game of Life pattern searcher written in Rust.

The program is based on David Bell's lifesrc and Jason Summers's WinLifeSearch, using an algorithm invented by Dean Hickerson.

Compared to WinLifeSearch, rlifesrc is still slower, and lacks many important features. But it supports non-totalistic Life-like rules.

This is the library for rlifesrc. There is also a command-line tool with a TUI and a web app complied to WASM.

You can try the web app here.

Example

Finds the 25P3H1V0.1 spaceship.

use rlifesrc_lib::{Config, Status};

// Configures the world.
let config = Config::new(16, 5, 3).set_translate(0, 1);

// Creates the world.
let mut search = config.world().unwrap();

// Searches and displays the generation 0 of the result.
if let Status::Found = search.search(None) {
    println!("{}", search.rle_gen(0))
}

Search result:

x = 16, y = 5, rule = B3/S23
........o.......$
.oo.ooo.ooo.....$
.oo....o..oo.oo.$
o..o.oo...o..oo.$
............o..o!

Modules

rules

Cellular automata rules.

Structs

Config	World configuration.
State	Possible states of a known cell.
World	The world.

Enums

Error	All kinds of errors in this crate.
NewState	How to choose a state for an unknown cell.
SearchOrder	The order to find a new unknown cell.
Status	Search status.
Symmetry	Symmetries of the pattern.
Transform	Transformations (rotations and reflections) after the last generation in a period.

Constants

ALIVE
DEAD

Traits

Search

A trait for World.