Terminal automaton is cellular automaton in your terminal, specifically Conway’s game of life. it is based in c++ and uses ftxui for rendering the game to the terminal.
Uses copilot inline suggestions.
I built Conway’s Game of life in the terminal using ftxui to render it. In the beginning everything was hard since I don’t know a lot of c++ but then it got easier as I learnt more. I am most proud of my dead row / column skipping which skips any inactive rows leading to a massive performance boost,
I implemented a few more optimizations. I now check both rows and columns for activity and skip over any empty ones to increase performance, I also added some better UI and a readme. This has been very fun to make and I’m probably going to add some user settings later, but right now it is getting close to the deadline and I need to get the optimization sidequest done.
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I just got done making the actual game of life in the terminal. I used ftxui for rendering and bitboards for keeping track of the cells at a low memory cost, roughly 8 times less memory then a array of bools. for every iteration I go through all spaces on the board and apply the rules to Conway’s game of life.
The video shows the Gosper glider gun being simulated in my terminal.
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