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- CELLULAR AUTOMATONS v0.1 (8/31/88)
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- This application calculates and displays the evolution of an array
- of cellular automatons and was inspired by the August 1988 Computer
- Recreations article by A.K. Dewdney in Scientific American. These
- automatons function like the automatons of the "game" of life, but
- instead of being dead or alive, each has a degree of "infection."
- The array of cells with various states of health is displayed as
- a color coded image. Because it uses Color Quickdraw, *this program
- will only run on a Mac II* (or the rumored color SE!). It can run
- in the background under MultiFinder and so a postage stamp size
- window can sit on your desktop displaying the current state of the
- automaton world while you work in other applications. If you choose
- to calculate large arrays, adjust the memory allocation using Get Info
- in the Finder. If the about box does not look right, open the Control
- Panel CDEV Monitors and reset the system color table. (I'm working
- on fixing this bug, any suggestions?)
- The program was written with Lightspeed C v3.0, an excellent, easy to
- use development system as evidenced by the fact that I only took up C
- last month!
- I hope you enjoy Automatons and hope that you give me some feedback--
- it would be much appreciated. Look for future versions which fix
- known, non-fatal bugs, and include new features and improvements.
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- Douglas Wood DELPHI: DWOOD
- Mail Stop 42 COMPUSERVE: 72727,2512
- Center for Astrophysics SPAN: CFARG1::DWOOD
- 60 Garden Street
- Cambridge, MA 02138
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