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@@ -5,16 +5,16 @@ [[https://youtu.be/N_aUWYNqpeY][A Video Example]] -There are multiple implementations in this project. Each one uses the same code, just modified slightly. Each directory contains a Makefile which will build that implementation. For most, a simple ~cd~ into each directory and ~make~ will do (see build instructions). +There are multiple implementations in this project. Each directory contains a Makefile which will build that implementation. For most, a simple ~cd~ and ~make~ will do. -Every ~make~ will finish with a ~gol~ binary. However, each implementation takes a different number of arguments. The Cuda implementation needs to be run in a slightly different fashion. +Every ~make~ will builds a ~gol~ binary. However, each implementation takes a different number of arguments, as documented below. The Cuda implementation needs to be run in a slightly different fashion. ** Compiling binary output to a video -Every implementation produces file I/O exactly the same. When logging is turned on, each iteration in the output directory is labelled ~iteration-XXXXXXX.bin~ where iteration number is padded by 7 zeros. +Every implementation produces file I/O exactly the same. When logging is turned on, each iteration in the output directory is labelled ~iteration-XXXXXXX.bin~ where iteration number is padded by 7 to make life easy. -There is a script in ~graphics~ that converts a raw ~unsigned char~ binary dump into a .bmp (with some help from [[https://stackoverflow.com/a/47785639/15819675][this Stack Overflow post]]). ~make-movie.sh~ converts a directory of ordered binary dumps to a video file with the arguments that are described in ~make-movie.sh~ (just provide none and a usage string will be ~echo~ed). +There is a script in ~graphics~ that converts a raw binary dump into a .bmp (with some help from [[https://stackoverflow.com/a/47785639/15819675][this Stack Overflow post]]). ~make-movie.sh~ converts a directory of ordered binary dumps to a video file with the arguments that are described in ~make-movie.sh~ (just provide none and a usage string will be ~echo~ed). -For example to make a movie of the outputs generated in ~cuda-global/output~ where each binary file is a grid of size 1920x1080 (at 8fps to a file named output-1920.mp4): +For instance, to make a movie of the outputs generated in ~cuda-global/output~ where each binary file is a grid of size 1920x1080 (at 8fps to a file named output-1920.mp4): ~cd graphics~ |