From kragen@dnaco.net Tue Sep  1 13:55:29 1998
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1998 13:55:28 -0400 (EDT)
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Don't read this if WireWorld bores you.

The cellular automata list (which is a newsgroup now,
comp.theory.cell-automata, I think) had a number of posts about
WireWorld in 1990 and 1991.  Included were rules, implementations,
and some sample configurations.

(Several of these articles read better in Lynx than in Netscape.)

<URL:http://alife.santafe.edu/alife/topics/cas/archives/90/0035.html>
	(has rules)
<URL:http://alife.santafe.edu/alife/topics/cas/archives/91/0347.html>
<URL:http://alife.santafe.edu/alife/topics/cas/archives/91/0349.html>
	(has patterns)
<URL:http://alife.santafe.edu/alife/topics/cas/archives/91/0351.html>
	(has implementation for LifeMaker)
<URL:http://alife.santafe.edu/alife/topics/cas/archives/90/0039.html>
	(has more patterns)
<URL:http://alife.santafe.edu/alife/topics/cas/archives/90/0038.html>
	(has implementation for Unix)
<URL:http://alife.santafe.edu/alife/topics/cas/archives/92/0541.html>
	(talks about wireworld and some other stuff)
<URL:http://alife.santafe.edu/alife/topics/cas/archives/90/0071.html>
	(more implementations for CA programs, and comments on running
	 it on a Connection Machine)
<URL:http://alife.santafe.edu/alife/topics/cas/archives/90/0070.html>
	(more about CA implementations of logic)
<URL:http://alife.santafe.edu/alife/topics/cas/archives/90/0069.html>
	(more patterns)
<URL:http://alife.santafe.edu/alife/topics/cas/archives/90/0064.html>
	(more patterns)
<URL:http://alife.santafe.edu/alife/topics/cas/archives/90/0066.html>
	(more patterns)
<URL:http://alife.santafe.edu/alife/topics/cas/archives/90/0067.html>
	(some interesting variations on WireWorld)
<URL:http://alife.santafe.edu/alife/topics/cas/archives/90/0081.html>
	(more patterns)
<URL:http://alife.santafe.edu/alife/topics/cas/archives/90/0088.html>
	(various bistable circuits)
<URL:http://alife.santafe.edu/alife/topics/cas/archives/90/0084.html>
	(more bistable circuits)
<URL:http://alife.santafe.edu/alife/topics/cas/archives/92/0544.html>
	(information about availability and CAMEX, etc)
<URL:http://alife.santafe.edu/alife/topics/cas/archives/92/0544.html>
	(wire-crossing patterns)
<URL:http://alife.santafe.edu/alife/topics/cas/archives/90/0059.html>
	(patterns and definitions of terms)
<URL:http://alife.santafe.edu/alife/topics/cas/archives/90/0037.html>
	(another implementation in C)

There are also other pages on the Web about WireWorld:
<URL:http://www.cs.cinvestav.mx/mcintosh/camex/node150.html>
	(LaTeX2html output including definition, patterns, etc.)
<URL:http://www.cs.runet.edu/~dana/ca/examples/wirewrld/>
	(implementation, MPEG, etc.)
<URL:http://www.sunysb.edu/philosophy/faculty/pgrim/SPATIALP.HTM>
	(using WireWorld to prove undecidability results for spatialized
	 prisoner's dilemma stuff)
<URL:http://ginevra.usr.dsi.unimi.it/hca.html>
	(I can't figure out what this is)
<URL:http://ginevra.usr.dsi.unimi.it/wirewrld.html>
	(another implementation)

Apparently WireWorld was invented by Brian Silverman of Logo Computer
Systems in 1987.



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