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Created by Kirill Rodriguez on 07/2018.

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The purpose of this project is to animate automata in order to provide intuition for understanding complexity, and is to evolve into a more efficient framework for investigating algorithms and topologies in the languages of various automata.

Demonstration

This is a random Day and night simulation:

Tools

c++20, clang++
opengl 3/4, libepoxy, glfw
Nuklear

Special features

GPU-powered updates
Ising model
Multi-state automata

Implementation

Renderer
- GLSL compute shaders (only B/S/C automata, when compute shaders are supported)
- OpenMP-powered updates on CPU otherwise
Storage mode
- Textures (B/S/C automata)
- CPU memory
  - Single buffer on CPU for automata where individual cells are updated (e.g. Ising model)
  - Double-buffer on CPU for update-all cellular automata
  - Extra buffer for case when buffer is larger than screen (for averaging)
Access mode
- Bounded
- Toroid (looped)
Topology
- Grid

Compiling

mkdir build
cd build
cmake .. -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER=clang++
cd ..
make -C build
# running
./build/automaton

Potential roadmap

Loading specific patterns
More kinds of initializations
Triangular/Hexagonal topologies
More kinds of rules
More stochastic automata
Continuous automata
Training a model to learn evolution of a stable CA

Name		Name	Last commit message	Last commit date
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images		images
include		include
resources		resources
shaders		shaders
tools		tools
.gitignore		.gitignore
Automaton.hpp		Automaton.hpp
AutomatonApp.hpp		AutomatonApp.hpp
CMakeLists.txt		CMakeLists.txt
Cellular.hpp		Cellular.hpp
Debug.hpp		Debug.hpp
File.hpp		File.hpp
Filestream.hpp		Filestream.hpp
InterfaceApp.hpp		InterfaceApp.hpp
Life106Decoder.hpp		Life106Decoder.hpp
Linear.hpp		Linear.hpp
Logger.hpp		Logger.hpp
PlainDecoder.hpp		PlainDecoder.hpp
Probabilistic.hpp		Probabilistic.hpp
README.md		README.md
RLEDecoder.hpp		RLEDecoder.hpp
Renderer.hpp		Renderer.hpp
Shader.hpp		Shader.hpp
ShaderAttrib.hpp		ShaderAttrib.hpp
ShaderProgram.hpp		ShaderProgram.hpp
ShaderUniform.hpp		ShaderUniform.hpp
String.hpp		String.hpp
Texture.hpp		Texture.hpp
Tuple.hpp		Tuple.hpp
VertexArray.hpp		VertexArray.hpp
VertexBuffer.hpp		VertexBuffer.hpp
Window.hpp		Window.hpp
incgraphics.h		incgraphics.h
main.cpp		main.cpp

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