[colorforth] Enhancement: Game of Life

[Dirk Harms-Merbitz <dirk@xxxxxxxxx>]

Wolfram's A New Kind of Science has lots of thoughts on cellular automata.

On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 09:46:25PM -0700, Bob Shafer wrote:
> If you insert "gen" as the first green word of the "s" definition in block
> 100 of the game of life posting, then "s" becomes "step" instead of
> "stop"; it allows you to single-step the generations of the cells. I
> almost added this as a separate keystroke, but I wanted to call it "s" and
> I already had an "s" keystroke. I almost went ahead anyway (colorForth
> wouldn't care), but then I realized the code for "s" could itself do the
> job with that simple addition of "gen", and nicely, too.
> 
> So, instead of 
>   
>    : s show ... ;
> 
> try
> 
>    : s gen show ... ;
> 
> ...
> 
> I'll try to stop sending email on this subject now. :-)
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