Cellular Automata Engine of sorts

Built using Emilk's eframe, templite repo. Eframe is a framework for writing apps using egui.

References and Sources Used:

Rest in peace John Walker his project "CellLab" has proved immensely helpful in my research, He passed on February 2, 2024. Less than a week before I started working on this project

Wikipedia:

• Cellular Automata
• Von Neumann Neighborhood
• Moore Neighborhood
• Elementary Cellular Automaton
• Lattice Gas Automaton
• Multi agent systems

Research Papers and Books

(note, I may or may not have read these papers, but am including all of the ones I found interesting, or ones that seemed like they could be helpful to look at later here)

• Two Dimensional Cellular Automata-Norman Packard and Stephen Wolfram
• Stephen Wolframs 'A new Kind of Science'
• Preston and Duff's "Modern Cellular Automata"
• Particle-Based Fluid Simulation for Interactive Applications - Matthias Müller, David Charypar and Markus Gross
• Particle-based Viscoelastic Fluid Simulation

Other Open source projects

• Riley Shaw's Terra.js (link to repo)
• Fourmilab's Cellular Automata Laboratory
• George Mason University's MASON

Rules to look into (for me)

• Brian's Brain
• Seeds
• List of Rules
• Lenia repo

Misc stuff to check out

• SandBox
• PowderToy
• Particle Life
• FluidSim
• Automato

Related Videos I Watched

• How to code a falling sand simulation (like noita) with cellular automata - MARF - Happened to be in my Recommended, and was an interesting watch
• Cellular Automata: Multi-State world (rock, paper, scissor, lizard, spock)-Efrans
• Complex Behaviour from Simple Rules: 3 Simulations - Sebastian Lague
• Coding Adventure: Simulating Fluids-Sebastian Lague
• Living Machines in TypeScript (Autocell Ep.02)- TsodingDaily
• Cellular Automata: Complexity From Simplicity- AceRolla

Instructions from the original E-Frame Template

Running localy

Make sure you are using the latest version of stable rust by running rustup update.

cargo run --release

Web Locally

You can compile your app to WASM and publish it as a web page.

We use Trunk to build for web target.

1. Install the required target with rustup target add wasm32-unknown-unknown.
2. Install Trunk with cargo install --locked trunk.
3. Run trunk serve to build and serve on http://127.0.0.1:8080. Trunk will rebuild automatically if you edit the project.
4. Open http://127.0.0.1:8080/index.html#dev in a browser. See the warning below.

assets/sw.js script will try to cache our app, and loads the cached version when it cannot connect to server allowing your app to work offline (like PWA). appending #dev to index.html will skip this caching, allowing us to load the latest builds during development.

Web Deploy

1. Just run trunk build --release.
2. It will generate a dist directory as a "static html" website