Interaction combinators are a universal model of distributed computation devised by Yves Lafont in 1997. They are a particular instance of Interaction nets. Interaction nets are a graphical model of computation also devised by Yves Lafont in 1990.
This project renders the computation of interaction combinators in a simplified physical 3D world where agents are spheres and edges are invisible.
To run with the slowest speed and without edges:
cargo run --release
To run faster, use -n with an iteration count (every nth step is displayed):
cargo run --release -- -n2
To run with edges, use -v (can be combined with -n):
cargo run --release -- -v
You can install the latest version released on https://crates.io/crates/lafont with:
cargo install lafont
Or you can install the latest commit from https://github.com/ia0/lafont with:
cargo install --git=https://github.com/ia0/lafont.git lafont
The binary will be installed as ~/.cargo/bin/lafont by default.
If you don't have cargo (the Rust package manager), install it through
https://rustup.rs/ or through your package manager (e.g. apt install cargo on
Debian-like machines).
This is not an official Google product.