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Cellexp - Cellular Automaton Explorer 1d

A cellular automaton (CA) explorer to understand and unveil properties of CAs in 1D.

Cellexp preview

Alternatives

  • ECAX - Zoom, Navigation, Compute-on-demand
  • ECA Canvas - Size, Border, Random
  • ECA EmergentMind - Zoom, Board of 256 rules
  • Celldemo - Autoscrolling, Impuse, Random proportion,
  • WolframAlpha - Description (symetries, properties, classes), Differential propagation examples

Documentation

The following ressources are available to learn about Cellexp:

Study and roadmap

Find the french presentation of the projet in doc-projet-fr.

Feature list

Planned features

(including some optional features)

The number preceding the feature name is the number of the release it's expected to be shipped in. A feature when it has been shipped in a release.

  • (1) Fca-compute
  • (1) Fca-show
  • (1) Fca-size
  • (1) Fca-theme
  • (1) Fconfig-hot
  • (1) Fconfig-size
  • (1) Fconfig-speed
  • (1) Fconfig-theme
  • (1) Fedit-bases
  • (1) Fnav-speed
  • (2) Fconfig-pause
  • (2) Fconfig-pos-t
  • (2) Fconfig-pos-x
  • (2) Fconfig-step-by-step
  • (2) Fconfig-zoom
  • (2) Fnav-custom-resize
  • (2) Fnav-jump
  • (2) Fnav-pan-horiz
  • (2) Fnav-pan-vert
  • (2) Fnav-pause
  • (2) Fnav-step
  • (3) Fca-border
  • (3) Fconfig-border
  • (3) Fconfig-pattern-grid
  • (3) Fconfig-pattern-horiz
  • (3) Fpattern-grid
  • (3) Fpattern-horiz
  • (3) Fpattern-select
  • (4) Finfo-condensed
  • (4) Finfo-ignore
  • (4) Finfo-linear
  • (4) Finfo-totalistic
  • (4) Fload-symmetry
  • (5) Fnav-zoom
  • (5) Fpattern-110

Unplanned optional features

  • Fca-custom-redimension
  • Fconfig-custom-redimension
  • Fconfig-custom-resize
  • Fconfig-reason
  • Fnav-resize
  • Fscripting

Release calendar

The releases are planned for the following dates:

  1. (2019-01-05)
  2. (2019-01-19)
  3. (2019-02-02)
  4. (2019-02-16)
  5. (2019-03-01)

Prototypes

CAE1D Flasher

Find it in git with tag rm-flasher.

This prototype resided in prototype/image-data. It served to prove that there was way to make JS rendering fast enough that we could rely solely on JS for the rendering.

N.B: This uses the ctx.putImageData API.

The prototype has been deployed to cae1d-flasher.now.sh. It may or may not still be online today.

GLSL Sandbox

Find it in git with tag rm-glslsandbox.

This prototype served to prove that the bare minimum communication between JS and WebGL was possible and efficient enough to be used in the project.

The WebGL prototype was written on glslsandbox.com. It should be available as specimen #58247.4.

N.B: move your mouse around or nothing will be happen.

Babylon

This prototype proved Babylon way too slow to be used as a rendering engine for the project.

Find it in git with tag rm-babylon. (It's really boring though.)

Other tags for deleted sources

The tag rm-measure was set before the removal of the measure/ folder. That folder contained some .putImageData related speed measures. It's not very interesting.