Ready
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| Ready | ||
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| Homepage | Click here | |
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| Purpose | Exploring continuous and discrete cellular automata, including reaction-diffusion systems | |
| Created by | Tim Hutton, Andrew Trevorrow, Robert Munafo, Tom Rokicki, Dan Wills | |
| Platform | Linux, Windows, macOS | |
Ready, first released in 2012, is an open-source, cross-platform program for exploring continuous cellular automata and reaction-diffusion systems. Ready, a sister project to Golly, supports 1D, 2D and 3D data, as well as polygonal and polyhedral meshes. In particular, it includes a continuous version of Life in which cells have floating-point values at discrete timestamps[1] and can simulate SmoothLife.
OpenCL is used as the computation engine, to take advantage of the many-core architectures on graphics cards and modern CPUs. OpenCL also allows rules to be written in a text format and compiled on the fly. Ready supports a compact XML-based file format so that images and rules can be shared easily.
References
- ↑ Tim Hutton (March 22, 2012). Explore Continuous CA with Ready (discussion thread) at the ConwayLife.com forums
External links
- Reaction-diffusion system at Wikipedia
- Reaction-diffusion Tim Hutton, September 6, 2010
- OpenCL at Wikipedia