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CA Creator

Download here (29K) - Note: you will need MFC42.DLL to run this.

This program is intended to act as a simple 1-dimensional CA generator. It allows you to alter the 8 governing rules and see their affects on a relatvely small world. For more advanced CA explorers, see programs like MCell.

CAs can produce some cool looking results when generated from an initial line of cells, or from a single point. To take this into consideration, there is an option to toggle this behaviour. Tick the "Start from line" to get the program to generate a line of random cells to start the CA.

Version 2.0

The program generates the world off-screen and saves it to a bitmap, that it then blits to the screen when necessary. You can also copy this bitmap to the clipboard to paste into any graphics package. The program also saves the last pattern and line settings. I also optimized the rules greatly.

Last Updated: 03/10/2000

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