[GRASS-user] New wiki addons script: r.game_of_life

[Michael Barton]

Hamish,

This is way cool. Surprising how short the script is too.

Michael


On 8/24/07 5:41 AM, "Hamish" <hamish_nospam at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hi folks,
> 
> I just wrote a little script to demonstrate how easy it is to play with
> cellular automata in GRASS. It runs both classic and modified versions of
> the "Game of Life". In addition, the 3D demo mode demonstrates creating a
> raster 3D time-series block; NVIZ isosurfaces and cutting planes; the
> xganim map animator; and creating a MPEG-1 movie.
> 
> http://grass.gdf-hannover.de/wiki/GRASS_AddOns#Raster_add-ons
> 
> It's written to be compatible with 6.2.2, but I've only tested it in
> 6.3cvs.
> 
> My NVIZ crashes when I try to add a raster volume isosurface (6.2.{1,2}
> and 6.3cvs; same old vol= bug), so I don't have a fancy screenshot to
> post, but if that works for you I'd love to see one looking down into the
> blob version evolution using an isosurface somewhere between 0 and 1. (the
> "blob" version being mod6, which the 3D mode is hardcoded to use)
> 
> I came up with the mod4 and mod6 versions mostly by mistake, if anyone
> wants to contribute others, just send the rules over. (In particular
> something more blobby than mod6 which would make a nicer isosurface)
> 
> For those interested in this sort of thing, I see on the add-ons page
> that Peter Löwe has recently added a r.mandelbrot module as well, and
> also GRASS's wildfire modules (r.ros/r.spread/r.spreadpath) could use a
> maintainer from the community.
> 
> 
>  I am very happy to note that there are now many scripts listed on the
> wiki addons page. In fact, it's busting at the seams. To keep the page
> useful we should probably do a few things:
> 
> 1) Break the grass6 raster and vector sections up into subgroups.
> Any suggestions?? Currently they're just in a random order.
> 
> 2) As many of the scripts are hosted on authors' personal webspace, it
> is probably a highly prudent idea to back them up in case that webspace
> or the author disappear off the scene. Markus's SVN server already hosts
> some of the modules; I was thinking of some automated wget scraping
> script to make up a .tgz. (although some links go to personal web pages
> with the code down another layer, mmph may have to be done by hand
> periodically). If it helps, I am happy to move all my contributions into
> the addons SVN. Related:
> 
> 3) As suggested over on the DebianGIS mailing list (by Frankie??), it
> would be nice to package all the addons up into a single grass-addons
> .deb/.rpm container. (well all addons that pass the FOSS license tests
> anyway).
> 
> 
> enjoy,
> Hamish
> 
> 

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Michael Barton, Professor of Anthropology
Director of Graduate Studies
School of Human Evolution & Social Change
Center for Social Dynamics & Complexity
Arizona State University

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