Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ccicpg!felix!dhw68k!thecloud From: thecloud@dhw68k.cts.com (Ken McLeod) Newsgroups: comp.graphics Subject: Hodgepodge (Computer Recreations 8/88) Message-ID: <12032@dhw68k.cts.com> Date: 23 Sep 88 08:42:15 GMT Reply-To: thecloud@dhw68k.cts.com (Ken McLeod) Organization: Wolfskill residence; Anaheim, CA (USA) Lines: 27 Has anyone else on the net tried to implement the Hodgepodge algorithm described in the August issue of Scientific American (A. K. Dewdney's column)...? 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? The only thing that yields somewhat interesting results is simply setting the cell state to 0, rather than evaluating the formula. However, only types 1 and 2 behavior appear, and these are "backwards" (the "waves" of infection travel *toward* the center, not away from it.) I noticed a version of Hodgepodge has been posted to comp.binaries.mac, but the author of the program (Douglas Wood) doesn't have a net address. If anyone has implemented the program and/or can send/post the algorithm to me (preferably in C) it would be *greatly* appreciated! -ken -- ========== ....... =========================================== Ken McLeod :. .: uucp: {spsd, zardoz, felix}!dhw68k!thecloud ========== :::.. ..::: InterNet: thecloud@dhw68k.cts.com //// ===========================================