Cellular Automata Laboratory by Rudy Rucker and John Walker

Table of Contents

• Getting Started
  • What Are Cellular Automata?
  • Overview of the Programs
  • Installing and Running
  • Demo of RC
  • Demo of JC
  • Why Cellular Automata? Rudy's Answer
  • Why Cellular Automata? John's Answer
  • A Sampler of CA Applications
    • Image Processing and Image Generation
    • Biology
    • Chemistry
    • Physics
    • Computer Science

• The RC Program
  • Mode Selection
  • Character Selection
  • The Keyboard Controls
  • The Control Panel
  • RC Rulestyles
    • RUG
    • BRAIN (And LIFE)
    • RANDOM
    • VOTE
    • ASCII
  • The 3D Disk and Other Extras
    • LIFE3D
    • PARITY
    • LANGTON
    • SOUNDCA

• The JC Program
  • How It Books
    • Cast: Rule Selection.
    • Scenery: Pattern Selection.
    • Lighting: Colorpalette Selection.
  • Controls
    • The Main Menu
    • File Output: The Ctrl Menu
    • Configurations: The Alt Menu Screen
    • Pattern Editor Menu
    • Command Line Arguments
  • Defining Rules
    • Defining Rules in Turbo Pascal
      • StartUp
      • Background
      • Topology
    • Defining Rules in C
    • Defining Rules in BASIC
    • Defining Own Code Evaluators in Assembly Language
  • Pattern Design
    • Predefined Patterns
    • Converting AutoCAD Images to CelLab Patterns
    • Converting AutoSketch Images to CelLab Patterns
    • Converting CelLab Patterns to PostScript
  • The JC Rules
    • AURORA
    • AXONS
    • BALLOONS
    • BOB
    • BORDER
    • BRAILIFE
    • BRAIN
    • DENDRITE and DENTIM
    • ECOLIBRA
    • FADERS
    • FLICK
    • FRACTAL
    • FREDMEM
    • GYRE
    • HEAT and HEATWAVE
    • HGLASS
    • HODGE
    • LANGTON
    • LIFE
    • PARKS
    • PERFUMET and PERFUMEX
    • POND
    • RAINZHA
    • RANCH
    • REVECOLI
    • RUG, RUGF, and RUGLAP
    • SHORTPI
    • SOOT
    • SOUNDCA
    • SUBLIME
    • TIMETUN
    • VENUS
    • VOTE
    • VOTEDNA
    • XTC
    • ZHABO, ZHABOF, and ZHABOFF

• Cellular Automata Theory
  • Neighbors
  • Vote and Other Totalistic Rules
  • Life
  • Brain
  • Semitotalistic Rules
  • Ranch
  • Rug and ASCII
  • Lattice Gas

• Origins of CelLab
  • Classical Era: Von Neumann to Gosper
  • Cellular Automata, 1985
  • CelLab

• Bibliography

• About this Edition