Fun with cellular automatons, BoulderDash and the Watchdog!

Fun with cellular automatons, BoulderDash and the Watchdog!

Siegfried Steiner
Siegfried Steiner
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The CELL-O-MAT artifact is some demo application featuring show-cases on cellular automatons being built with the REFCODES.ORG artifacts. It accompanies my talk at the JVM-Con 2018, where I speak about With swarm intelligence on Burglar Hunt.

The funcodes.club provides some show-cases on cellular automatons with its source codes hosted at Bitbucket, including the CELL-O-MAT artifact. To try it out, download the cellomat.sh binary script and invoke it by calling ./cellomat.sh or java -jar cellomat.sh. It will start with a random cellular automaton and a random board (you will need at least a Java 9 installed).

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“… Die Zellen eines zellulären Automaten, die auf ihre jeweilige Umgebung reagieren, verhalten sich Mainzer1 zufolge wie eine Schwarmintelligenz …”2 (“… According to Mainzer, the cells of a cellular automaton that react to their respective environment behave like a swarming intelligence …”)3

Getting started

To get up and running, clone the funcodes-cellomat repository from bitbucket’s git repository.

How do I get set up?

Using SSH, go as follows to get the Maven CELL-O-MAT project:

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git clone git@bitbucket.org:funcodez/funcodes-cellomat.git

Using HTTPS, go accordingly as follows to get the Maven CELL-O-MAT project:

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git clone https://bitbucket.org/funcodez/funcodes-cellomat.git

Then you can build a fat-jar and launch the application:

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cd funcodes-cellomat
mvn clean install
java -jar target/funcodes-cellomat-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar

Big fat executable bash script (optional)

This step is optional, though when running your application under Linux, the following will be your friend:

To build a big fat single executable bash script, take a look at the shell-exec.sh script and the build.sh script respectively:

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./shell-exec.sh
./target/cellomat.sh

The resulting cellomat.sh file is a big fat single executable bash script being launched via ./target/cellomat.sh.

Building and creating an executable bash script is done by calling ./build.sh!

Starting Cellomat

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./cellomat.sh --help                     # Show a help message
./cellomat.sh                            # Start with a random cellular automaton and a random board
./cellomat.sh -b                         # Start with the BoulderDash cellular automaton and a random board
./cellomat.sh -b --console               # As above, in addition also print the current state to the console
./cellomat.sh -b --board CAVE_99_TESTRUN # Start with the BoulderDash cellular automaton and the 'CAVE_99_TESTRUN' board
./cellomat.sh -b --boards                # List all available BoulderDash boards
./cellomat.sh -w                         # Start with the Watchdog cellular automaton and a random board
./cellomat.sh -w --console               # As above, in addition also print the current state to the console
./cellomat.sh -w --board lecture         # Start with the Watchdog cellular automaton and the 'lecture' board
./cellomat.sh -w --boards                # List all available Watchdog boards

Have fun playing around with the various CELL-O-MAT settings!

  1. See Klaus Mainzer at Wikipedia (de), 2019 ↩

  2. See Zelluläre Automaten und Maschine 4.0 by Achim Szepanski, 2018 ↩

  3. See Die Berechnung der Welt. Von der Weltformel zu Big Data (page 161) by Klaus Mainzer, 2014 ↩

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