GameOfLife

Cellular Automata visualilzed using the OpenGL library

NEXT STEPS

• add mouse addition of cells
• add 3D rendering
• add multithreading

2d Dynamic arrays in thihs game

• using a block of allocated 1d array and indexing using the index function which takes in (x,y) value

OPENGL GAME ENGINE

• vertex shaders and buffers to store vertices to draw
• usage of simple animations such as color shaders
• ability to easily draw triangles and squares to the window.

understanding the drawings

• ELEMENTS? -> a collection of vertices to make a quad represented by 4 vertices
• VERTICES? - > a collection of xy coordinate represented by 2 floats
• layouts? -> how to read elements in specific order using the buffer. made up of type, count and a normalization bool.
• buffers? -> an array of data to store to call for drawing later
• array buffers? -> an array of buffers to choose which one to draw later. THE TWO METHODS OF ARRAY BUFFERS

USING ONE VERTEX ARRAY BUFFER WITH MULTIPLE LAYOUTS TO BIND

OR

USING MULTIPLE VERTEX ARRAY BUFFERS FOR EACH OBJECT.

Game break down

• make board from drawing quads on the screen.
• values in board correspond to grafix colour
• positions of the grid are divided by the size of the screen.
• pixels are simply two triangles that are pretty small
• BE CAREFUL OF DYNAMIC BUFFER ALLOCATIONS!!!!