tnicolas42 / carnifex

Conway's Game of Life automaton

Carnifex

What's Carnifex

Carnifex is a Conway's game of Life automaton, made in Common Lisp, in the context of a 48hours rush at 42 Paris, to learn more about the subject, see Carnifex.pdf

Made by @Ashbury, @willfree108, @iomonad, @tnicolas42, @UgoNic and me

Installation

Requirements

• SDL
• sbcl or any other lisp interpreter
• quicklisp

You can download and install the SDL Library here

sbcl is available on many package managers for linux users, for Mac users or if you need to compile it from source, a full tutorial is available here

Once SDL and your favority lisp interpreter are installed, clone this repository

git clone https://github.com/jjaniec/Carnifex

and download the quicklisp library manager in the cloned directory

cd Carnifex
curl https://beta.quicklisp.org/quicklisp.lisp > quicklisp.lisp

Run sbcl and type in the following:

(load "/path/to/quicklisp.lisp")
(quicklisp-quickstart:install)

Usage

sbcl --load ./main.lisp [-h --help -i --invert -t --traces] <width:int> <height:int>

Options

-i / --invert: Invert colors
-t / --traces: Enable dying cells traces

Commands

Controlling cells lives

You can use mouse clicks to change cells lives

Left click on board: Vitalize pointed cell
Right click on board: Kill pointed cell

Keybindings

The following keybindings are available to control the display

'e' / keypad '+': Increase zoom
'q' / keypad '-': Decrease zoom
',' / '<': Decrease cycles/second
'.' / '>': Increase cycles/second
'w' 'a' 's' 'd' / arrows / shift + mouse left click: Move camera
'r': Reset board
'esc': Exit
'p' / 'space': Play / Pause 

Contributions

This project will not be maintained, but pull requests are welcome.

For major changes, please open an issue first to discuss what you would like to change.