cjhoward@watnot.UUCP (11/19/86)
Being a great fan of A.K. Dewdney, and having just heard him
give a talk on campus here, I wonder if anyone has source or
executable of some of the programs that he has described in
"Computer Recreations" in Scientific American.
Specifically, I'm looking for a "Star clusters" program
and a "Core Wars" arbitrator and parser. He mentioned the
topic of the February/87 CR to be a "3D Life" game. Life
4555 and Life 5766 were the ones he mentioned (4555 and 5766
being the parameters for survival lower bound, survival upper
bound, fertility lower bound, and fertility upper bound, All
bounds being on the number of neighbours.). Anyone want a
crack on it for the Amiga? It apparently exists for the mac
with full perspective and colour (cells are cubes rather than
pixels) at 2 generations/sec. I'd like to see that as well.
Actually, I'd like any good mathematically representative
programs.
Many deep and sincere thanks in advance.
Caleb J. Howard (cjhoward!watnot!watmath)