Smooth Life Implementation in Go

Smooth Life (according to paper);

is the generic generalization of Conway's "Game of Life" to a continuous domain. 

Quick Start

$ make build
$ ./bin/smoothlife

Arguments

Argument	Description	Default Value
rand	Enable/Disable randomness1	false
ra	Paper's outer circle radius	11.0
dt	Infinitesimal time to give ability to obtain arbitrary small time steps	0.05
b1	Paper's b1 param	0.278
b2	Paper's b2 param	0.365
d1	Paper's d1 param	0.267
d2	Paper's d2 param	0.445
alpha-n	Paper's alpha(n) param	0.028
alpha-m	Paper's alpha(m) param	0.147
interval	Duration between each step	300ms
step	Execution step count	200
with-paper-diff	Switch between diff algorithms2	true

Argument notes

• [1] rand is disabled by default for experimenting purposes
• [2] with-paper-diff command line argument is used to switch between paper's diff proposal and tsoding's diff implementation. true means use paper's diff proposal

Todos

• enhance terminal rendering
• tweak automaton parameters to explore new life forms :)
• check anti-aliasing method for neighbour value selection which described in paper (page:3, paragrah:2)

References

• Game of Life
• Paper
• tsoding:
  • Source in C:
  • YT Video: Simulating Life on my Computer like a Scientist
  • YT Video: My GPU Almost Died Doing This Life Simulation