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<H1><CENTER>Modern CA AuthorXY</CENTER></H1>
This is a tool for authoring cellular automata web pages which compare cellular automata in tables.
It is also useful for
experimenting with cellular automata rules. <B>Click on the examples
at the bottom of the left frame to see the power of this software.</B> Its goal is to
generate HTML text which can be selected, copied, and pasted into a new
or existing HTML document file on the user's computer. If a copy of the
Modern Cellular Automata Java applet is placed in the same directory as
the HTML document file then the cellular automata should start running
as soon as the HTML document is opened.
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<a href="./author.html" target="_parent">Author</a> is a
companion tool used for authoring simple cellular automata web pages.
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The multiple entry x input field provides a mechanism for specifying column
dependent data, while the y input field specifies row dependent data.
Entries in the x and y input fields are seperated by semicolons. The resultant table of cellular
automata will have a number of columns corresponding to the number of x input field entries and a
number of rows corresponding to the number of y input field entries.
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The characters 'x' and 'y' can be thought of as variables. When they appear in
other text input fields, the corresponding x or y input field entry will be used in the result
table of cellular automata.
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The Modern Cellular Automata software distribution contains the Modern
Cellular Automata applet, which may be freely reproduced so long as it
is not modified, and all of the HTML and Javascript "source code" for
Modern CA Author and Modern CA AuthorXY (this web page). This code may be
freely reproduced
<B>and</B> modified. With the distribution you can experiment with a
copy of this web page local to your computer, without web access.
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The latest version of Modern Cellular Automata software may be downloaded
from
<a href="http://www.collidoscope.com/modernca/author.zip">www.collidoscope.com/modernca/author.zip</a>.
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