A highly-interactional Conway's Game of Life written in C for the X11 window system

Works on most Linux distributions!

mkdir gull

cd gull

git clone https://github.com/mllegoman/C-Cgol

To start you will have two directories - bin and src. In bin/ you will find the precompiled binary, and in src/ you will find w.x.c (the source code).

To run, go to your terminal and type:

cd bin

./cgol

If you wish to install this system-wide you can always throw the binary in /usr/local/bin:

cp cgol /usr/local/bin/cgol

Or wherever you feel comfortable putting your binaries.

mkdir gull

cd gull

git clone https://github.com/mllegoman/C-Cgol

cd C-Cgol/src

gcc -xc w.x.c -o cgol -lX11 -lpthread

When starting cgol you will first be prompted with "edit mode". Here you can set the domain of the grid (size), as well as other key elements such as:

pressing the "r" key will yield you the ability to summon random chunks on demand!

pressing the "p" key will give you the power to summon any pattern you like!

(press anywhere on the window OR select the "q" key to escape the pattern draw; select "c" to paste from buffer)

press the "y" key to start the simulation

While the simulation is running, some other operations that you have access to are:

Pressing the "h" key will enable you to change the alive cell color to a hex value of your choosing

(press "y" to save hexcolor; any other key to escape the hex change) (i.e. 00ffff for aqua or 00ff00 for green; must be lowercase)

press "q" while in edit mode or while running the simulation to quit

Set window background color to solid black on creation

Reimplement in Wayland

Add support for macOS and maybe Windows