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0.2.0 Sep 15, 2018

#394 in Graphics APIs

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Foundry

A GPU-accelerated cellular automata library using Vulkan.

It is a library that aims at manipulating life cellular automata grids. For now it supports:

  • toroidal and resizable grids
  • loading and saving files containing grid data
  • stepping forward the generations of a grid (if it is a resizable grid, it will make sure the pattern is always at the center of the grid)

What this library aims at

  • Support for distributed and parallel computation of grids' operations (GPUs and networking).
  • Usage of machine learning for pattern analysis.

About the file formats used

For now, Foundry uses two internal file formats: Resizable Life and Toroidal Life.

Resizable Life

This file format is close to the Life 1.06 format:

  • The "#Resizable Life" is followed by optional description lines, which begin with "#D". Leading and trailing spaces are ignored.
  • Next comes an optional rule specification. The patterns in the collection here enforce "Normal" Conway rules using the "#N" specifier. Alternate rules use "#R" ("#N" is exactly the same as "#R 23/3"). Rules are encoded as Survival/Birth, each list being a string of digits representing neighbor counts. Since there are exactly eight possible neighbors in a Conway-like rule, there is no need to separate the digits, and "9" is prohibited in both lists.
  • And finally comes a list of (x y) coordinates with live cells.

Toroidal Life

This file format is close to the Life 1.06 format:

  • The "#Toroidal Life" is followed by optional description lines, which begin with "#D". Leading and trailing spaces are ignored.
  • Next comes an optional rule specification. The patterns in the collection here enforce "Normal" Conway rules using the "#N" specifier. Alternate rules use "#R" ("#N" is exactly the same as "#R 23/3"). Rules are encoded as Survival/Birth, each list being a string of digits representing neighbor counts. Since there are exactly eight possible neighbors in a Conway-like rule, there is no need to separate the digits, and "9" is prohibited in both lists.
  • Next there is a line like this "#S " which define the size of the grid.
  • And finally comes a list of (x y) coordinates with live cells.

Dependencies

~18–27MB
~372K SLoC