ciarancoady98/elementary-cellular-automaton-visualisation

A Visualisation of Elementary (1D) Cellular Automaton using Pygame for fun

Elementary-Cellular-Automaton-Visualisation

A small Python3 program that visualises Elementary Cellular Automaton

Dependencies

Python3
Pygame

Note

Please ensure you are using python3 as this program will not run using python2.

Deployment

After cloning the repo navigate into the directory cd Elementary-Cellular-Automaton-Visualisation.

The run the command python Elementary-Cellular-Automaton-Visualisation.py

You will be then greeted with a command line interface to setup the visualisation.

The program will ask for the ruleset that is to be used when creating the next generation of cells. A ruleset is an 8-bit binary value e.g. 01111110.

After this a pygame window will open displaying the simulated Automaton.

To exit the program simply press escape key when the simulation is complete.

Modifications to program

By default the program will calculate 64 generations but this can be changed by altering the GENERATIONCOUNT variable.

If the pygame window is too big or too small it can be scaled by changing the RESOLUTIONSCALE variable.