New Spore Prototype & Email Tool
E-Card Website, an online application that will allow users to email
customized content from the Spore Creature Creator as well as Spore, the
upcoming life simulation. They also announce
their Spore Protoypes page
now offers BIOME, another prototype testing one of the in-game systems. Word is:
BIOME is a programmable cellular automata simulator that allows users to
develop simple "SimCity-like" grid simulations.
The grid-simulations in SimCity were inspired by Conway's "Life" program, which
produces amazingly intricate patterns from simple rules
BIOME uses a language based on chemical stoichiometry, the notation system used
to describe chemical reactions. Cells in a BIOME simulation change state the
same way that chemicals change when exposed to other chemicals
Systems such as this can be used to simulate phenomena such as forest fires,
disease epidemics, animal migration patterns and crystallization
BIOME supports both rectangular and spiral cellular automata configurations. The
spiral configuration was used to study stochastic, self-propagating star
formation (the process whereby the ignition of a star promotes the creation of
more stars) on the galactic scale.
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