Awesome

CLI Of Life

Play Conway's Game of Life in your terminal!

Installation

Docker

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A Docker image is available at ghcr.io/gabe565/cli-of-life

sudo docker run --rm -it ghcr.io/gabe565/cli-of-life

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Homebrew (macOS, Linux)

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Install cli-of-life from gabe565/homebrew-tap:

brew install gabe565/tap/cli-of-life

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APT (Ubuntu, Debian)

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If you don't have it already, install the ca-certificates package
```
sudo apt install ca-certificates
```

Add gabe565 apt repository

echo 'deb [trusted=yes] https://apt.gabe565.com /' | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/gabe565.list

Update apt repositories
```
sudo apt update
```
Install cli-of-life
```
sudo apt install cli-of-life
```

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RPM (CentOS, RHEL)

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If you don't have it already, install the ca-certificates package
```
sudo dnf install ca-certificates
```

Add gabe565 rpm repository to /etc/yum.repos.d/gabe565.repo

[gabe565]
name=gabe565
baseurl=https://rpm.gabe565.com
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0

Install cli-of-life
```
sudo dnf install cli-of-life
```

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AUR (Arch Linux)

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Install cli-of-life-bin with your AUR helper of choice.

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Manual Installation

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Download and run the latest release binary for your system and architecture.

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Usage

Run cli-of-life in a terminal to play.

By default, the grid will be empty, but rle/plaintext files can be loaded with cli-of-life FILE.rle or cli-of-life https://...

For full command-line reference, see docs.

Examples

$ cli-of-life https://conwaylife.com/wiki/Gosper_glider_gun
$ cli-of-life https://conwaylife.com/wiki/Twin_bees_shuttle
$ cli-of-life https://conwaylife.com/wiki/Breeder_1
$ cli-of-life https://conwaylife.com/wiki/Replicator

See the LifeWiki for pattern files.

Keybinds

Key	Description
mouse	Place cells
`space`	Play/pause
`m`	Toggle between modes: smart, place, erase
`wasd`	Move the game board
`-`/`+`	Zoom
`<`/`>`	Change playback speed
`esc`	Toggle menu
`t`	Tick
`ctrl+c`	Quit

References

LifeWiki
An Algorithm for Compressing Space and Time by Tomas G. Rokicki (GitHub Mirror)
Conway's Game of Life Blog Series by Eric Lippert
noctilu/quadtree
HashLife by ninguem
An implementation of Hashlife in Python by John H Williamson
rowett/lifeviewer