Animation of Yves Lafont's Interaction Combinators

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.

This is not an official Google product.

How to install

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).