Game of Life 3D

A 3D version of the well-known Conway's Game of Life, written in Rust.

Status

• The game take place in a cube
• Each cube represents a cell
• The cell color represents its age
• The user can turn around the cube
• The user can select the game speed
• The user can select the game size

Future goals

I will probably use this project to try some libraries or to improve my skills on some feature of the Rust programming language, so it might become overbloat and over-engineered, but nobody should care about it since it does nothing useful anyway.

However, while doing so, the goal is to maintain decent performances or to improve them.

A few ideas:

• A way to reconfigure the game in real-time
  • from a Lua shell
  • from a REST API
  • from a GraphQL API
• Add a way to customize colorscheme
• Automatically move the camera
• Run clippy and rustfmt on the code
• Compile to WebAssembly to render in a browser
• Add a client/server architecture
• Optionnally compile some features with flags in Cargo.toml
• Change light and cells colors accordings to the sound card output
• Add some visual effects/edit some GLSL
• Use rayon in some ways (probably to optimize the maximum size of the game board an average computer can compute)
• Use tokio in some ways (why not?)
• Use OpenCL?
• Use SIMD?