Turmites

Turmites is a small Go program that runs one more more turmites through a mound.

Mound library located here

Every turmite is a 2d turing machine, one of the most famous turmites being Langton's Ant (a four state turing machine).

How do I get set up?

• Linux/Unix-like OS required
• bash, rm, ffmpeg required for func mound.BatchImages(...)

Things to consider

• Currently every frame is encoded into png files into a temporary directory. This takes a long time!
• mound.BatchImages(...) currently handles a max of 999,999 frames
• Want to convert .mp4 to .gif? Consider this Stack Overflow post
• API is not stable and subject to change

TODO

• Modify mound.BatchImages(...) to start generating pngs at a specific step (currently steps from frame 1 -> frame 999,999)
• Create function to merge various .mp4s
• Allow skipping of frames
• Allow user to choose output type (currently only allows .mp4)
• Consider pushing png encoding to different cores (currently the bottleneck)

Who do I talk to?

• Contact Sean @ github.com/sdwalsh or bitbucket.org/sdwalsh

Contributing

Feel free to fork this repository and send pull requests!

License

Copyright 2017 Sean Walsh

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

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