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- From: esr@snark.thyrsus.com (Eric S. Raymond)
- Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
- Subject: Xlife -- the plot thickens again...
- Message-ID: <1jtPWV#2DJK7d9X3mS46pqDWy4h8gqW=esr@snark.thyrsus.com>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 07:03:53 GMT
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- The good news is, my Xlife (which will be released as Xlife 4.0) now has
- multi-state support. You can run any cellular automaton with up to
- 8 states and the Von Neumann 4-cell neighborhood, using a transition table
- specified by an editable file. I have reorganized the internals in such
- a way that adding code to handle more general case should be easy.
-
- The bad news is, I never did figure out the reason for the XFillRectangles()
- screwage in my 2.0bis code --- the problem simply went away when I merged my
- changes into 3.0. Spooky.
- --
- Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com>
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