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From: rick@hanauma.stanford.edu (Richard Ottolini)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: 3D Life
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Date: 22 Mar 91 01:43:34 GMT
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A few years Computer Recreations column of Scientific American published
some interesting rules and objects for 3-D life.  The rules could be parameterized
by a four-digit number two digits bounding the neighbor count for birth and
two digits bounding the count for death.  I took an evening an encoded
a nifty 3-D display on the Ardent in Dore (similar to PHIGS).
I allow arbitrary rules.  I didn't write an interactive graphics based method
of specifying the initial state,  That would be useful.  Also the Dore
implementation was not fast.  I just applied a translation matrix to a cube.
Using lots of transformation matrices is inefficient in Dore.