I have a screen shot from my latest A-life project which features a tile based environment that grows, and some little snails that crawl (only in one direction currently).
The johnleach.co.uk site (and all the other sites I host) has moved to our new server hosted at the very cool and expensive InTechnology in Harrogate. See trantor.org.uk.
2D alife is fine, but add a whole new dimension, and you’re in a whole new dimension! I’m learning how to code some OpenGL (through the SDL libraries) so that I can make my bacteria and squiks dance on the Z too. The Radeon 9000 in this PowerBook is speeding the process up a good few tens of frames per second.
My Daewoo DVD player’s region protection was quickly foiled with a few magical keypresses on the remote control thanks to the information at regionfreedvd.net. Nice chaps. When I opened up the secret menu, I got a message saying “YOU SHOULD NOT BE HERE”, hehe.
I’m just testing the final changes to my patch to add elog (Firestorm NIDS) support for the open source protocol analyser Ethereal, after which I’ll release it. Hopefully it will get added to Ethereal.
I’ll be making some of my old little Life programs available here soon, plus some recent tinkering I’ve been doing with a more advanced idea of evolution modelling. They are all in C and use the SDL libraries for the graphics.
