SFML Conway's Game Of Life

Description

Implementation of Conway's Game Of Life using C++, SFML and Sparse Encoding.

Based on Game Of Life Implementation by Javidx9.

Example

Controls

• WASD - ZQSD - Arrows: Move Camera
• P: Toggle Pause
• R: Cleanup Scene
• O: Toggle Optimization
• LMB: Spawn one cell
• RMB: Spawn multiple cells
• Mouse Wheel: Zoom
• ESC: Close window

Table of contents

• SFML Conway's Game Of Life
• Description
• Example
• Controls
• Table of Contents
• Installation
  • Prerequisites
  • Clone the repository
  • Build the project
  • Run the program
• Libraries
• License

Installation

Prerequisites

• C++ compiler (gcc, g++, cl, clang)
• CMake 3.28 or newer
• OpenMP

For Linux/Ubuntu, you also need to install the following dependencies:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y libx11-dev \
                        libxcursor-dev \
                        libxi-dev \
                        libxrandr-dev \
                        libudev-dev \
                        libgl1-mesa-dev \
                        libfreetype6-dev \
                        libjpeg-dev \
                        libopenal-dev \
                        libflac-dev \
                        libvorbis-dev \
                        libxcb1-dev \
                        libxcb-image0-dev \
                        libxcb-randr0-dev \
                        libxcb-xtest0-dev

Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/Corentin-Mzr/GameOfLife-SFML.git

Build the project

From the root folder, execute the following commands:

cmake -B build
cmake --build build

Run the program

To run the program, launch it from the build/bin folder:

cd build/bin
./SFML-Conway.exe

Libraries

The following libraries have been used for this program:

• SFML 3.0
• ImGui

License

This program is under the MIT License