ErLife

File Release Notes and Changelog

Release Name: erlife-0.2.3

Notes:
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DESCRIPTION
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Erlife is the concurrent version of the Life-like cellular automaton
written in Erlang. Each cell is represented as a process and interacts
with its neighbours by some interface. So, the population is not
restricted to a pre-defined area and the board is almost infinite.

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FEATURES
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Engine Features:
   * Almost infinite board;
   * Evolution rate depends only of the cells population;
   * Color representation of cells;
   * Flexible rules (not Conway's only);

GUI Features:
   * Start/stop engine;
   * Settling cells with mouse;
   * Zooming board from cell-per-pixel to 20x20 cells; 
   * Moving board in all directions;
   * Changing growth/decay rate;
   * Setting rules from pre-defined list;

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REQUIREMENTS
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   * SDL >= 1.2.7 (www.libsdl.org)
   * Opengl 1.1 (www.mesa3d.org)
   * Erlang/OTP R9C-2 or higher (www.erlang.org)
   * ESDL >= 0.94 (esdl.sourceforge.net)

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COMPILING
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1. cd erlife-x.x.x
2. Change ERLINC and ERL_COMPILE_FLAGS values in Makefile like

   ERLINC = /usr/lib/erlang/lib/esdl-0.94.0615/include
   ERL_COMPILE_FLAGS = -pa /usr/lib/erlang/lib/esdl-0.94.0615/ebin
   
   So it should be the right paths to ESDL include & ebin dirs.

3. make

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RUNNING
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erl -pa ./ebin
1> erlife:start().

or

./go
1> erlife:start().

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CONTROLS
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Mouse:
   <left-click>	Settle cell

Keybindings:
   <space>   	Start/Stop
   <+>		Zoom In
   <->		Zoom Out
   <arrows>     Move board 
   <q> 		Quit



Changes:
2006-09-02:	Andrew Zamaraev	<andrey@sevcom.net>

	* release 0.2.3
	* src/gui.erl: moving board ability added.

2006-08-31:	Andrew Zamaraev	<andrey@sevcom.net>

	* src/sell.erl: alive cells incorrect calculation fixed.

2006-08-30:	Andrew Zamaraev	<andrey@sevcom.net>

	* release 0.2.2
	* src/gui.erl: GUI features: Growth/decay controls, zooming
	  allowed everytime.
	* src/envronment.erl: FPS incorrect calculation fixed.
	
2006-08-29:	Andrew Zamaraev	<andrey@sevcom.net>

	* release 0.2.1
	* src/*: GUI features: statistics, ability to start/stop engine,
	  quit, zoom, change rules, settle cells with mouse. Keybindings:
	  start/stop, quit, zoom. Zoom allowed only when engine
	  paused. 0.2.1 alpha version.

2006-08-26:	Andrew Zamaraev	<andrey@sevcom.net>

	* release 0.2.0
	* src/gui.erl: Starting to implement GUI.

2006-08-24:	Andrew Zamaraev	<andrey@sevcom.net>

	* release 0.1.x
	* src/*: First working version of engine. Command-line interface.