M-Cell

System Requirements

Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP

File Size : 3.6 MB

Mireks Cellebration (MCell) is a 32-bit Windows program whose main purpose is exploring existing and creating new rules and patterns of 1-D and 2-D Cellular Automata. It supports 14 different Cellular Automata families: Life, Generations, Weighted Life, Vote for Life, Rules tables, Cyclic CA, 1-D totalistic CA, 1-D binary CA, General binary, Neumann binary, Larger than Life, Margolus, User DLLs, and Special rules. MCell supports different neighborhoods (Moore 8 and 9, von Neumann 4 and 5, Margolus, Hexagonal, neighborhood ranges, properties). Each family contains many built-in rules, for example well-known Conways Life, HighLife, Day & Night, Long life, Diamoeba, Fredkin, Vote 4/5, Brians Brain, Star Wars, RainZha, Swirl, HGlass, Midges, Sticks, Career, Venus, WireWorld, and many more. Many rules are unique. All rules are illustrated with carefully designed patterns. MCell handles all popular formats - (Life 1.05, Life 1.06, RLE, dbLife, ProLife, XLife, MCLife, MCell, both from UNIX and DOS formats, and most collections of Cellular Automata patterns available on the Internet. It installs the full library of CA patterns, CA families nd rules. It handles 1D and 2D rules in von Neumann, Moore, extended Neumann, extended Moore, Hexagonal and Margolus neighborhoods. Its also externally programmable - users can write their own rules or plug-ins using virtually any 32-bit Windows compiler.