zcelltermSiphonay/zcellterm
Zig CLI implementation of the Wolfram Elementary Cellular Automaton
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zcellterm
CLI toy, Zig implementation of the Wolfram Elementary Cellular Automaton, with various customization features Inspired by the Coding Train video on the subject.
Demo
Features
- Call any of the 256 rules of the Elementary Cellular Automaton
- Automatic terminal size detection, manual size setting, infinite mode
- Pre-computation of a specified number of generations before display
- Per-line display delay
- Start with only one active cell in the middle of the automaton, or specify a custom or random starting condition
Supported platforms for automatic terminal size detection
Tested
- Linux
- macOS
- Windows
- FreeBSD
- OpenBSD
- NetBSD
Untested, works in theory if you can build for those platforms (might be non-trivial)
- Haiku
- Solaris
Know how to implement size detection for a platform not listed here? Feel free to contribute!
Build
zig build
Release 1.0.2 tested with zig 0.13.0 and zig-clap 0.9.0 releases. Feel free to use optimization flags.
Thanks
I’m using the zig-clap library to parse arguments.
Thank you @AliceDiNunno for testing out macOS compatibility, as well as all the nice people on the Zig Programming Language Discord server who gave me their help and feedback.
I was able to improve the terminal size detection for Windows by taking example on softprops’ implementation.