explorata/src/js/automata.js

// handles negative index and index bigger than its array length
function guard(index, array) {
  if (index > (array.length - 1)) return 0;
  if (index < 0) return (array.length - 1);
  return index;
}

// get the next evolution of a 1D CA initial state
function evolve(state, rules) {
  function getCell(index) {
    const safeIndex = guard(index, state);
    return state[safeIndex];
  }
  const newState = state.map((_, x) => {
    const cells = [
      getCell(x - 1),
      getCell(x),
      getCell(x + 1)];
    return rules[cells.join('')];
  });

  return newState.map(Number);
}

// create a 2D board from a 1D CA initial state
function createBoard(state, rules, height) {
  function createBoardAcc(s, h, acc) {
    if (h === 0) return acc;
    const newState = evolve(s, rules);
    const newAcc = acc.concat([s]);
    return createBoardAcc(newState, h - 1, newAcc);
  }
  return createBoardAcc(state, height, []);
}

// Find the neighbor of a given cell in a 2D CA board
function getCellNeighbors(board, cellCoordinates) {
  const [x, y] = cellCoordinates;
  const rowLength = board[0].length; // caca?

  // handles board edges where the cell is missing neighbors
  function getCell(xx, yy) {
    const safeX = guard(xx, board);
    const safeY = guard(yy, rowLength);
    return board[safeX][safeY];
  }

  // the current cell is not included in the result
  return [
    getCell(x - 1, y - 1), getCell(x, y - 1),
    getCell(x + 1, y - 1), getCell(x - 1, y),
    getCell(x + 1, y), getCell(x - 1, y + 1),
    getCell(x, y + 1), getCell(x + 1, y - 1),
  ];
}

// Sums the value of a cell's neighbors
function getNeighborsSum(cells) {
  return cells.reduce((cell, acc) => cell + acc, 0);
}

// Get the next evolution of a cell according to
// Conway's game of life rules
function conwayRules(cell, neighbors) {
  // loneliness rule
  if (cell === 1 && neighbors < 2) return 0;
  // overpopulation rule
  if (cell === 1 && neighbors > 3) return 0;
  // born when three live neighbors rule
  if (cell === 0 && neighbors === 3) return 1;
  // the cell remains the same if none apply
  return cell;
}

// get the next evolution of a 2D CA initial state
function evolve2d(board, rulesFn) {
  return board.map((row, x) => row.map((cell, y) => {
    const neighbors = getCellNeighbors(board, [x, y]);
    const sum = getNeighborsSum(neighbors);
    return rulesFn(cell, sum);
  }));
}

function getDrawingValues(state, acc, cell) {
  const d = cell.dimension;
  return Object.keys(state).map(
    (key) => {
      const fillStyle = (() => {
        if (state[key] === '1') return cell.liveColor;
        return cell.deadColor;
      })();

      return {
        move: [key * d, acc * d],
        fill: [key * d, acc * d, d, d],
        fillStyle,
      };
    },
  );
}

// Populates the first state of a 1D CA with cells returned
// by initFn
function initialState1d(width, initFn, args) {
  return [...Array(width)].map(
    () => initFn(...args),
  );
}

// Populates the first state of a 2D CA with cells returned
// by initFn
function initialState2d(width, height, initFn, args) {
  return [...Array(height)].map(
    () => [...Array(width)].map(
      () => initFn(...args),
    ),
  );
}

export {
  getDrawingValues, initialState1d, initialState2d, evolve, evolve2d, conwayRules, createBoard,
};