Contents

• LCAU program set
• CAMEX main menu
  • General layout
  • Copyright notice
  • Main keyboard menu
    • Run the CAM
    • Return to DOS
    • Bitplanes
    • Shifting
    • Permuting
  • Function keys
  • Editing tables and planes
• CAMEX function keys
  • The automaton menu
  • The REC menu
  • The parameter menu
• Future developments
  • Manual
  • VGA controller
  • Mouse
  • Sample rules and bitplanes
  • Margolus neighborhood
  • Intel 8086 CPU
  • Bitplane editing
• The (16,0) automata
  • Shannon forms
  • Permutations
  • Boolean combinations
  • Counters
  • Half-CAM s
  • Video display
  • Margolus neighborhoods
• The (4,1) automata
  • Shifting planes
  • Shearing planes
  • Rotation by shearing
  • Cross shifting
  • Symmetries of a square
  • General (4,1) automata
• The (4,1/2) automata
  • Screen display
  • Option menu
    • The full menu
    • Defining the table
    • Arranging bitplanes
    • Special rules
    • General rules
    • Reversible rules
    • Product rules
    • Evolution
    • The de Bruijn diagram
  • The automaton itself
    • Cartesian product
    • Reversible automata
    • Universal emulation
• The (2,1) automata
  • Generalities
  • Moore (2,1) automata
    • Totalistic rules
    • Semitotalistic rules
    • Even-odd-center rules
    • Symmetric rules
    • General rules
  • Hexagonal (2,1) automata
  • Moore (2,1/2) automata
• One dimension
  • Generalities
  • Programming niceties
  • The collection LCAU
    • Evolution
    • Probability
    • De Bruijn diagrams
    • Ancestors
    • Designing rules
  • (2,1) automata
  • (3,1) automata
    • Options
    • The option menu
    • Sample rules of evolution
  • Totalistic (3,1) rules
  • (4,1) automata
  • Prospects
• Three dimensions
  • Logical arrangement
  • The module CAMETD
  • Menu options
    • Thick
    • Thin
  • Function keys
  • Experiments
  • Variations
• The Margolus neighborhood
  • The neighborhood
  • Rule of evolution
  • Four tables for four parities
• REC programming
  • The language
  • Defining programs
  • Operators and predicates
• Edit a Moore plane
  • Outline
  • Keyboard options
    • Alphabetical listing
    • CAM/PC evolution
    • Console panel evolution
    • Console panel symmetry
    • Data exchange
    • Rule table
  • Mouse movements
    • CAMEX mouse
    • With or without a mouse
    • The mouse menu
  • Function keys
    • Full list
    • Load bitplanes
    • REC program
    • Patch movement
    • Color, plane
• Conway's Life
  • Description of Life
  • Life artifacts
    • Small objects
    • Gliders
    • Volatile objects
    • Oscillators
    • Glider guns
    • Puffer trains
    • Other constructions
  • Life experiments
  • Loading a Life plane
• Zhabotinsky reactions
  • Theory
  • General framework
    • Spread of epidemics
    • Neural conduction
    • Chemical reactions
    • Computer simulation
  • Zhabotinsky submenu
    • Keyboard options
    • Function keys
  • Suggestions
    • State 0
    • Degree of contagion
    • Initial density
    • Length of dormancy
    • Speed of evolution
    • REC demonstrations
• ``Eater'' rules
• WireWorld
  • Definition
  • Digital logic
    • Barriers
    • Diodes
    • OR gate
    • EXCLUSIVE OR gate
    • ONE-AND-NOT-THE-OTHER gate
    • AND gate
    • Clocks
    • An inverter
    • A crossover
  • Digital circuits
    • Bistable element
    • Flip flop
  • Advanced projects
    • Binary counter
    • Incrementer
    • Automaton
  • Editing WireWorld
• De Bruijn diagrams
  • Neighborhood dominoes
  • De Bruijn matrix
  • Second level diagrams
  • Third level diagrams
  • The de Bruijn option
    • Shifts
    • Periodic strips
    • Isolated strips
    • Sample
    • To run the sample
    • Disk output
    • Matrix power
    • General survey
  • Typical operation
  • External data bases
• CAM hardware
• Modifications and extensions
  • Hardware origin
  • Radius 1/2 Moore neighborhood
• Acknowledgements
• References
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