cgl%cardinal@lanl.gov (Chris Langton) (12/01/88)
Cellsim 1.0 - a cellular automaton simulator for Sun workstations - is now available and can be obtained free of charge via anonymous ftp from 128.165.96.120. It resides in the "pub" directory as "cellsim_1.0.tar". It will run on **COLOR** Sun-3 and Sun-4 workstations. This is a window-based tool for experimenting with 1-D or 2-D cellular automata, allowing interactive editing of both the cellular arrays and the transition functions, and supports real-time analysis of data generated during CA runs via a socket connection. Version 1.0 is quite a substantial improvement over the beta version that we distributed for testing early in the summer, and incorportates many of the suggestions made by those who obtained and ran the beta version. Thanks to everybody who sent suggestions - I am sure you will find the 1.0 version a vast improvement over the beta version. For those of you unfamiliar with anonymous ftp, send me a message and I'll send you a sample script file for obtaining the simulator. After you have obtained the tar file and extracted the files, read the cell.doc file for instructions on how to use the simulator. We are including the source code with this release. This is in the hope that others will add on features that they find useful. Please address all comments, suggestions, or queries to me at the address below. Chris Langton Center for Nonlinear Studies Phone: 505-665-0059 MS B258 Email: cgl@LANL.GOV Los Alamos National Laboratory Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545