Hamish, This is way cool. Surprising how short the script is too.
Michael On 8/24/07 5:41 AM, "Hamish" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi folks, > > I just wrote a little script to demonstrate how easy it is to play with > cellular automata in GRASS. It runs both classic and modified versions of > the "Game of Life". In addition, the 3D demo mode demonstrates creating a > raster 3D time-series block; NVIZ isosurfaces and cutting planes; the > xganim map animator; and creating a MPEG-1 movie. > > http://grass.gdf-hannover.de/wiki/GRASS_AddOns#Raster_add-ons > > It's written to be compatible with 6.2.2, but I've only tested it in > 6.3cvs. > > My NVIZ crashes when I try to add a raster volume isosurface (6.2.{1,2} > and 6.3cvs; same old vol= bug), so I don't have a fancy screenshot to > post, but if that works for you I'd love to see one looking down into the > blob version evolution using an isosurface somewhere between 0 and 1. (the > "blob" version being mod6, which the 3D mode is hardcoded to use) > > I came up with the mod4 and mod6 versions mostly by mistake, if anyone > wants to contribute others, just send the rules over. (In particular > something more blobby than mod6 which would make a nicer isosurface) > > For those interested in this sort of thing, I see on the add-ons page > that Peter Löwe has recently added a r.mandelbrot module as well, and > also GRASS's wildfire modules (r.ros/r.spread/r.spreadpath) could use a > maintainer from the community. > > > I am very happy to note that there are now many scripts listed on the > wiki addons page. In fact, it's busting at the seams. To keep the page > useful we should probably do a few things: > > 1) Break the grass6 raster and vector sections up into subgroups. > Any suggestions?? Currently they're just in a random order. > > 2) As many of the scripts are hosted on authors' personal webspace, it > is probably a highly prudent idea to back them up in case that webspace > or the author disappear off the scene. Markus's SVN server already hosts > some of the modules; I was thinking of some automated wget scraping > script to make up a .tgz. (although some links go to personal web pages > with the code down another layer, mmph may have to be done by hand > periodically). If it helps, I am happy to move all my contributions into > the addons SVN. Related: > > 3) As suggested over on the DebianGIS mailing list (by Frankie??), it > would be nice to package all the addons up into a single grass-addons > .deb/.rpm container. (well all addons that pass the FOSS license tests > anyway). > > > enjoy, > Hamish > > __________________________________________ Michael Barton, Professor of Anthropology Director of Graduate Studies School of Human Evolution & Social Change Center for Social Dynamics & Complexity Arizona State University phone: 480-965-6213 fax: 480-965-7671 www: http://www.public.asu.edu/~cmbarton _______________________________________________ grassuser mailing list [email protected] http://grass.itc.it/mailman/listinfo/grassuser
