Game of life but Formula 1 version 🏁

Overview

Game of life is a zero-player game - the grid evolves from given initial state according to the Conway's algorithm.

Initial configuration

In order to start the game there is provided a file with initial configuration - config.txt, which syntax is as follows:

fist line configures whether to use console or QT version of game: [CONSOLE | QT]

second line consists of 2 numbers - number of pixels respectively widthways and lengthways of the grid: WIDTH LENGTH

third line consists of the name of file with initial state - as default there is a initial state provided in common\initial_state.txt

fourth line consists of period of rendering new state given in milliseconds

Syntax of the file which initial state

all lines are the list of live cells on digit in format X Y, X in [0,1,2,...,WIDTH-1], Y in [0,1,2,...,LENGTH-1]

How it looks like with QT mode

How to run application

1. Make sure You have QT 6 installed on your PC
2. Go to the the directory where you have cloned the project cd <some_path>/GameOfLife
3. Set a path to your qt cmake
   • cmake DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH="path/to/Qt/lib/cmake" on windows
   • cmake DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=/usr/include/{host}/qt{version}/ on Ubuntu
4. mkdir -p cmake-build && cd cmake-build
5. cmake .. -G"Unix Makefiles"
6. make