CELLULAR AUTOMATA LABORATORY

Freeware Release Notes for Version 2.

February 26, 1996

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CELLAB2.ZIP includes the CELLAB.EXE program  by
John Walker, which is a Windows port of a the CA.EXE program which
was formerly sold by Autodesk as CA LAB.  This file also includes the
the RC.EXE program by Rudy Rucker.  In addition there are a number of
new JC rules which were not in the CA LAB release.

The CELLAB and RC software and its support files are being 
distributed as public domain freeware and may be used for any purpose
without obtaining permission from Walker and/or Rucker.

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A copy of the CELLULAR AUTOMATA LABORATORY manual is
available as a set of HTML files from our site

http://mathcs.sjsu.edu./faculty/rucker/cellab.htm

as CELDOC2.ZIP.  This should be decompressed using WinZip32 or
the 32-bit PKUNZIP so as to preserve the *.HTML extensions.

The manual text is distributed as shareware which remains under the
copyright (C) 1997 Rudy Rucker and John Walker, and which cannot
be used for any commercial purpose without written permission from
Rucker and Walker.

The CELLULAR AUTOMATA LABORATORY is somewhat out of
date, and does not include documentation on some of CELLAB's new
features.  In particular, this manual was written when CELLAB was a
DOS program.  An updated version of the manual may be supplied by
Rucker and Walker at a later time.

NOTE: When you run the RC.EXE program under Windows95, you must
press the comma key [,] numerous times in order to slow the simulation
down enough so that each frame is shown.  You need to do this
at the start of of each RC.EXE session.

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Users can build their own *.JC rules and *.JCO owncode evaluators
as discussed in the CELLULAR AUTOMATA LABORATORY.  To 
this end, you need to use the JCRULE.H and JCMAKER.OBJ files with a
rule file such as GRIFF.C to build a JC rule.  The MAKERULE.BAT
file will build the rule with Visual C++, and the BCRULE.BAT will build
the rule for the Borland compilers.  MAKEOWNC.BAT will build
a *.JCO file from a *.ASM file with the Turbo assembler TASM.

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The new demos are based on some new "owncode" rules, particularly
SWAP.JCO.  For partial documentation on these rather revolutionary
owncodes, we provide the *.ASM files.

Here is a list of the new (since CA LAB) demos with some comments.

BOIL.JC
	Pretty.  Load AUTOCAD.JCC color palette.
CLOWNEAT.JC
	Random eat applied as an image processor.
DEMON.JC
	Based on Kee Dewdney column eat rule, uses Von Neumann neighborhood.
GAS.JC
	Uses GAS.CAO.
GENE.JC 
	Uses SWAP.JCO. I think.  Pretty.
GRIFF??.JC
	Griffeath's eat rules with varying numbers of states.  If nothing happens, load the EARTH.JCP pattern file.  AUTOCAD.JCC color palette looks good.
GRIFFGAS JC
	Eat rule in which the eaters move around.
IBRAIN.JC
IEAT8.JCa
IECO.JCa
IFADE.JC
IFADER5.JC
IGAS.JC 
	The I rules are all 'image processing' rules.  Try them by loading the rule, then loading WOMAN.JCP pattern and WOMAN.JCC color.
MITE.JC
	An ecology by Dan Drake.  See MITE.DOC.
RUGBOIL.JCa
	Pretty.  Press the arrow keys while it runs.
VANTE3.JC
VANTE4.JCa
	Two ant demos. UsesTURMITE.JCO.  See TURMITE.DOC
for info.
WATOR.JC
	Three species Dewdney "wator".  Uses SWAP.JCO.  See TURMITE.
DOC for more info.
