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From: coy@ssc-vax.UUCP (Stephen B Coy)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Hodgepodge (Computer Recreations 8/88)
Message-ID: <2251@ssc-vax.UUCP>
Date: 26 Sep 88 19:14:58 GMT
References: <12032@dhw68k.cts.com>
Organization: Boeing Aerospace Corp., Seattle WA
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In article <12032@dhw68k.cts.com>, thecloud@dhw68k.cts.com (Ken McLeod) writes:
> 
>  I've been getting some unexpected results, which I think may be
> due to my workaround of a hazard in the formula for "infected
> cells." The formula is [S/A] + g. When A = 0, obviously you need
> to assume something else for the new cell state value! But what?

When calculating infected cells include the cell itself in the
totals.  This insures that A>0.  The most puzzling part of the
article to me was what values of g to use.  The terms "small" and
"larger" don't convey a whole lot of insight.  What I've found is
that with n=128 interesting values of g are around 45.  Does anyone
else have nay insight into this?  FYI I'm running this on my Amiga
doing 160x100 cells and getting about 1 generation every 6-7
seconds.  Oh, I'm also using an 8-connected neighborhood.  With just
4 neighbors I couldn't get anything that looked interesting.

> -ken
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Stephen Coy
uw-beaver!ssc-vax!coy