vife

vi-like editing of life-like cellular automata, but with a terrible name

I won't pretend this is anything special. I don't know anything about GoL. I only made this to learn Nim basics

And now that I think about it, it has nothing to do with vi either. It is fun to play with though

Installation

You will need Nim installed. Then simply:

git clone https://codeberg.org/rdsq/vife
cd vife
nimble install

And it should appear at ~/.nimble/bin/vife

Controls

Use hjkl or wasd to move the cursor (the // thing), hold shift and press those same keys to flip the cells under the cursor. Also press alt to jump and move faster! You can press enter to flip the cell that's under the cursor, but I don't know what's the point of it if you can move while doing it

Use the spacebar or n to advance to the next generation or 1-9 keys to jump this number of generations. Or N to jump to the boring part when it all settles in a loop, though this code I wrote is inefficient, so it will take a sec

You can fill an area by pressing f. Pressing and holding it is not recommended for obvious reasons

Another not very useful one is F with shift, which inverts the entire game grid

Options

You can add --wraparound to make the grid wrap around the edges

You can also use --scale to increase the scale of the playing field, though I am not sure why

Licence

Licensed under the EUPL