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Bubble Pond
Copyright (C) 2009 Scott Davis
http://bubblepond.sourceforge.net

Bubble Pond is a simple artificial life program that
simulates bubble organisms that bounce around on
the surface of a pond, eating and digesting different 
types of food, and reproducing both sexually and
asexually.

Bubble Pond if a Java application and can be run on
any computer with a Java Virtual Machine (JVM) of
version 1.5 or later.

A free JVM can be downloaded from Sun here:
http://java.com/en/download/index.jsp

For most operating systems you can simply double 
click on the BubblePond-1.0.2.jar file since it is an 
executable jar.

If that doesn't work, you can run it from the command
line in the directory containing the jar file:

java -jar BubblePond-1.1.0.jar

Details about how the simulation works can be found on 
the Bubble Pond website:

http://bubblepond.sourceforge.net

If you have any questions about this program, please
email me at:

scud1@users.sourceforge.net

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** License **

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
 
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but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
 
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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