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Geek Culture / Life Simulator thingy

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Fallout
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Posted: 20th Dec 2004 07:00 Edited at: 20th Dec 2004 07:05
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Just watched some proggy about life and are we really here and all that jazz. They showed a scientist who had made that little life simulator thing. I just thought I'd give it a go in db and it's quite interesting.

Here's the source and image files if you'd like to take a peak. Press/hold space to spawn some new life cells. You can tweak the variables in the initialisevariables sub aswell.

Worth a look!

http://www.invisiblechainsaw.com/programs/Life.zip

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The rules are:
- If an empty cell is adjacent to exactly 3 full cells, a new cell is born.
- If a full cell is adjacent to more than 3 cells, it dies of overcrowding.
- If a full cell is adjacent to less than 2 cells, it dies of isolation
- If a full cell remains unchanged for 6 generations, it dies of age.

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Neofish
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Posted: 20th Dec 2004 07:06
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Fallout
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Posted: 20th Dec 2004 07:09
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Whats wrong with your eyes?

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Nicholas Thompson
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Posted: 20th Dec 2004 08:41
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Thats actually a REALLY cool screensaver type program! I love it!

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Osiris
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Posted: 20th Dec 2004 10:23
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mine has a dim error in it does it need DBP

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Fallout
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Posted: 20th Dec 2004 18:00
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Yeah, appologese, it's a DBPro proggy.

The idea is that giving a few cells a set of a few basic rules, they'll go off and perform complex operations. By just giving it a few rules, you can watch it spawn walking creatures (on a very simplistic level) that I didn't code, and explode in a kinda supernova way as a civilisation of many die out (which I didn't code either).

So far I've seen:
-Mini walkers
-Death explosions
-A spider that keeps spawning mini walkers (only seen that once)
-A hive type mass of cells that crept round in a circle.

It's not a game. Just a curiousity.

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Benjamin
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Posted: 20th Dec 2004 23:24
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Very cool, but..mine walked off the screen

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Osiris
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Posted: 21st Dec 2004 00:44 Edited at: 21st Dec 2004 00:44
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ok i dl the DBP trial and now it cant find a file could someone send me the program by email please

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BatVink
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Posted: 21st Dec 2004 01:08 Edited at: 21st Dec 2004 01:08
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Osiris, it's in a few places on the net. Here's one, it doesn't have death from being unchanged, but I've never heard of that rule before...

Game of Life

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Fallout
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Posted: 21st Dec 2004 01:09
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Mate, it's not worth going to the trouble of getting DBP just to look at this. It's a really simple 15 minute proggy! If you're gonna get the trial anyway, go for it, but don't get it just for this. It's not worth the effort!

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Van B
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Posted: 21st Dec 2004 01:40
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Nice .

I remember an old Atari Lynx game that had a level that used a life algo as a wall, you'd shoot bit's off it and end up making matters worse .


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