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Architecture: 68k
Life Maker
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Download LifeMaker.sit
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For System 6.x - Mac OS 9
For System 6.x - Mac OS 9
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Life Maker is a cellular automata program for color Macs. Cellular automata (CA) can be thought of as mini-universes. The universe starts at some initial state and evolves according to a simple local rule. Conway's Game of Life is by far the best known CA. Lifemaker includes Conway's Life along with sixteen other rules. Unlike most Life programs LifeMaker uses color, allows you to change the size of the "universe", and lets you create your own rules.
Basics of CA
A cellular automata consists of a bunch of cells and a rule determining the evolution of the system. The cells typically exist in one or two dimensions. Each cell has an associated state. The number of possible states is finite and usually quite small. In LifeMaker the cells are arranged in two dimensions and there are a maximum of four states with each state having its own color.
The rule uses the state of a cell and it's neighbors to find the cells new state. The rule is applied to each cell simultaneously so that the cells change all at once. The neighborhood of a cell can be any finite collection of nearby cells. For 2D CA the most command neighborhoods are the Moore (the eight immediately adjacent cells) and the Von Neumann (the four cells to the north, south, east and west)
For more information check out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellular_automaton
CompatibilityArchitecture: 68k
Requires 32 Bit QuickDraw and runs fastest with the monitor set to 256 colors.