This project is an iteration of the famous cellular automation game with a twist! I have added some extra features to make the lives of these cells a bit more fun. The most challlanging part of this project was the optimisation of checking the cells in each frame. I hope you have fun with the program!
You can now customise the weights of any random event! This is most likely the last feature before ship but it has been fun to make!
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Events now span multiple seasons to prevent death from happening too fast. Added a mode seletc between the classic mode and the events mode.
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For out next event we have BOMBS! Each time a cell tries to spawn on a bomb, it and all it’s immediate neighbours will die! Here is a screenshot of the moment before disaster.
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I have now created 2 rare special events that affect the spawn/death condtions of the next generation to add some randomness to the deterministic game! Love and Famine.
Generations with the Love effect will be able to populate an empty cell with only 2 alive neighbours rather than 3.
Generations with the Famine effect will die with more than 2 neighbours and empty cells need 4 alive neighbours to populate.
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You might notice the Bombs remaining. That is a a feature which will be implemented tommorow.
I have now added colours a bit more properly! Each square in the grid is assigned a colour (even if it is currently inactive) at grid generation. Whenever a cell is born it is represented as the colour of the square. A majority of squares are white however each other colour has a 2% chance of spawning.
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I have given up on trying to optimise this shit. Instead I will get onto the special events of this version to make it more unique! First feature colour. It does not actually represent anything right now but it exists.
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For reference most of this 2 hours was on failed optimisations
I have now made the fundamental functioning version of Conway’s Game of Life. I fixed a major bug with how each generation is processed so now it accutately reflects the game. The next stage is to redo the backend to make it more efficient (hopefully)!
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I have now implemented the birth/death logic and have a way of reflecting the grid updates. However, you may be able to notice that I have not allowed the edges to be updated which is a bug I will fix next! Also say hello to Bongo Cat!
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I have made a randomly generated inital grid (generation 0) right now. Next step is to do cell checking for the next generation.
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This project is as the name suggests a Video Player in the terminal. It can play any downloaded video by converting each frame into an ASCII image and printing that frame. The player can both render videos live to remove wait times or prerender videos to be able to watch better quality videos at higher resolutions.
The project was my first dive into computer graphics and my first performance critical project and was a great experience to develop. I hope you try it out and enjoy using it!
Hello again! This is the final devlog before shipping. For this update I have done a lot but definitely not 12 hours worth of work. Anyways here is a full list of all the changes. The attatched video is live rendered.
I am quite content with where this project is and it is my first project that I am truly proud of. Thank you to whoever has followed this project!
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Sorry for the shit video quality had to compress so I could upload.
Now where did that 12 hours come from? Mostly failed attempts at performance enhancments and testing slight adjustments to the code where testing once can take like 2 miniutes. I also ended up heavily restructuring the code and did a fair amount of documentation in the code as I wanted it to be somewhat decent. One such attempt was to decode the video via the GPU which theoretically was just importing the gpu portion of decord and passing it as an argument. Unfortunately, CUDA does not come precompiled so for like 1 and a half hours I was attempting to compile it with my decord installation and failing so I just gave up on it.
That’s sick! I even tried it out myself.
I’m genuinely impressed. Something like that definitely is something I could try attempt make myself.
I have added a few improvements to the code such as
The main rendering opimisation needed is ASCIIfing the frames.
The main playback problem is the flickering which happens if the user does not scroll their terminal window up as well as at higher video resolutions.
I also need to add a low resolution mode as otherwise the edges don’t look as sharp.
I probably won’t be able to get too much more done but I will try to add some more usablility features so it is ready to ship and if I can find the time I will try add colour and/or a live rendering feature so you don’t have to wait for it to be pre rendered but no promises.
See you guys next time!
Also sorry for really bad video quality as I had to get it under 50 MB
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dammmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
broo , its too cool
u can also add colors!!
bro talk me in discord pleaseeee
discord server link ->https://discord.gg/PC8NWDr2Mv
This is V0.1 of the program! It is functional but has a lot of bugs, optimisations and features to be made which should hopefully come out soon. This was quite fun to put together and I’m glad I found the time to make some version of this. As you can see the flickering is quite a big problem as it works by wiping the screen after each frame and pasting the new frame. Another big issue is the huge amount of time spent rendering the video at higher frame rates. From the video you can also see that things like speed are issues which is hopefully a quick fix!
See you guys next time!
Also I promise I am not trying to farm time with the fact that it took 4 hours to do this. I genuinely just suck balls at programming.
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For reference this video was rendered at 60fps but i think the original was 30 which is what caused the speedup.
dang this was in python???
