I am working for a games company in Derby, UK, doing 3D face modelling work as a follow-on from my phd.
News:
- New: The [Rule Table Repository] continues to grow. We need to think carefully about the rule table format, to avoid hitting problems later.
- New: Golly is an amazing program. I've managed to implement Codd's fabled self-replicating machine (last known estimate: 100 million cells) and get it to work. Files here: [Codd-self-rep.zip] (1MB)
- I've put a bit of work into a demonstration implementation of lattice gas automata, for fluid simulations in a CA. See the [Lattice Gas Explorer], and here's an image:
- von Neumann's self-reproducing machines have become a reality, thanks to the Golly people porting them to the hashlife algorithm. I've put a new page here: [1].
- My alife work is concerned with implementing evolution. Somebody just announced a $100K prize for doing just that - but is it all that it seems? Here I have an open email discussion about it with the prize sponsor: EPrizeDiscussion.
Coding:
Here are some open-source projects I've started or contributed to:
| [Lattice Gas Explorer] | A cross-platform simulator for lattice gases, with an emphasis on being a tutorial for learning about them, and about their implementation. |
| [Slinker] | A cross-platform Slitherlink puzzle generator and analysis engine. I haven't touched this for a while. I get my slitherlink fix from [Kwon-Tom Loop]. |
| [Organic Builder] | A fun applet that lets you explore the rules of artificial chemistries, and challenges your skills at organic programming. On the back burner at the moment. |
| [Organic Builder in Flash] | A port of OB to flash applets. I really should work on this. |
| [Golly] | Cellular automata. Astonishingly quick in some cases because it uses the hashlife algorithm. I'm currently trying to port lots of old CA to it. |
| [VTK] | The visualisation toolkit is a cross-platform cross-language library for 3d rendering and visualisation and mesh processing. Has some interesting algorithms. |
Other content:
| Papers | Here you can download my papers, and any source code that goes with them. |
| [Evolution] | My work on evolution and artificial chemistries is here. |
| [blog] | I seem to be blogging. |
| [Google profile] | Buzz posts |
| [photos] | This is where my photos live. It's all a bit random, I'm afraid. |
| [CV] | My CV is here (out of date, of course) |
| [PowerCrust] | My VTK port of the powercrust algorithm is here |
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Tim