Crate rust_ca

CA library

This library gathers several tools to simulate and work with 2D CA grids.

For example to simulate a randomly initialized 2-states CA of size 512 with neighborhood size 1 for 10 steps:

use rust_ca::rule::Rule;
use rust_ca::automaton::{AutomatonImpl, Automaton};

// We build a random CA rule with 2 states and neighborhood size 1.
let rule = Rule::random(1, 2);
let mut automaton = Automaton::new(2, 128, rule);
automaton.random_init();
// Simulate the CA for 32 steps.
automaton.iter(32);

We now write 10 steps of the CA to a GIF animation.

use rust_ca::output;

output::write_to_gif_file(Some("test.gif"), &mut automaton, 1, 10, 1, 1, 0);

The scale parameters make the GIF larger by duplicating every pixel, and the skip argument will only write a step every skip steps.

output::write_to_gif_file(Some("test_bis.gif"), &mut automaton, 4, 100, 10, 1, 0);

Modules

automaton

The cellular automata related utilities.

output

The output utilities. Use to save the CA state to an output GIF.

rule

Functions and struct to create and manipulate CA rules.