Cellular Automata |
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A cellular automata experiment, following the 4 rules of Conway's Game of Life. [More] |
To download this game for your Linux/Mac installation, enter this on your command line:
DreamDownload byond://Duelmaster409.CellularAutomata##version=2 Emulator users, in the BYOND pager go to File | Open Location and enter this URL:byond://Duelmaster409.CellularAutomata##version=2 |
Only Windows users can play this game. If you have an emulator, you can join the waiting list to be informed when a new server is ready to play. This is a small port of Conway's Game of Life to BYOND. In this demonstration, you can directly modify the numbers of the rules (but not the actual behaviors!) or keep the default Conway rules. The demonstration may suck up quite a bit of CPU or memory, so be warned. You may use the comments section to discuss or report curious behavior the program exhibits.
If you don't know what Conway's game of life is; it's a very interesting Cellular Automata in which many, MANY different patterns take place if certain conditions are met. These patterns may or may not include visually-perceived living creatures, pumping hearts, moving spaceships, glider guns, (perceived) inappropriate shapes, and some still life. This demonstration's area of play is limited to 120x120, so many of the patterns that require a spacious area will probably not happen at all or for very long. Wikiepedia article. To toggle a cell's status (alive/dead), you may simply click a square. To quickly explode the vicinity with a random amount of life, right click. To absolutely populate an entire section of the map, perform a shift+click. Movement can be performed with the arrow keys. The verbs in the demonstration are hopefully self explanitory! Version 1.2 (January 24, 2011) - - A new "virus" feature that introduces a virus onto a random location in the map that has a static set of rules. It behaves just like a real virus: it reproduces by infecting other cells, and can be destroyed by starvation or an "immune" system (ie live cells overwhelming virus cells) - The "popular patterns" verb has been implemented. You may now view some popular patterns by clicking the names. If there is a specified original inventor or discoverer of the pattern, their last name is displayed in parentheses to give credit. - Some other minor tweaks. |
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