This page updated: September, 2006

F3DLife Frequently Asked Questions

• Question: Is the source code available?
• Source code is included as a zip file.

• Question: Where is Fractal 3D going?
• into Life or dissolve into demos
• L-systems are to be moved into Life as 3D Tree generation
• Preview form : Mandelbrot-Julia and Phoenix-Egg into GR32 demo
• Math Graphics are to be GLS Demos ~ 3D Boids
• XYZ 3D artificial DEMs are imported-created, tiled, and displayed as GLS Demos ~ 3D Boids

• Question:
• Answer...

F3DLife To Do:

• maybe do attributes
• figure out the user interface...

• F3DLife to do
• currently is not much of a program... and may never be

• Fix

• Fractal 3D Life is something of its own...
  • Fractal 3D™ Fractal Landscape Composition (FLC): Generate Fractals, iterated functions, strange attractors, math graphics, fractal..random..DEM landscapes, and compose the generated shapes in a 2D assembly area. Meanwhile back at the ranch... Stone Soup Group is cooking Fractint © . For that Russian 3D flavor fractal try Sirotinsky Arthur and Olga Fedorenko's Fractal Explorer © . Cook it yourself from Borland's Contest entries : Allen- Julia, Ongun- fractal.frm and LSystem.ls, Hord- Particles, Williams- landscape, and many others.
  • Life™: is an adaption of "the game of Life" (not to be confused with the board game) by Conway wherein cells live {remain}, multiply {appear} and die {disappear} according to rules. Life has evolved into 2D Cellular Automata having attributes and on into 3D characters... Life..Logo turtle graphics.. alife..AI..CA..GA..NN is investigated by Dr. Eckart, G.W. Flake, and the Primordial Soup Kitchen. Life32© by Johan Bontes is an amazing (virtually spatially unlimited) implemetation of Life patterns (by Hensel , Silver et. al.) while Mirek’s Cellebration© of Life performs many (all) CA rules in an organized fashion. Rudy Rucker has gnarly chaotic Life, Jason Rampe has Visions Of Chaos, and Craig W. Reynolds Boids Boids Boids in a PI have set off a Swarm© of autonomous characters. And so it seems LEGO has with MINDSTORMS. L systems were pioneered by Dr. Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz in his (papers) to display the growth of plant life. On the other side of life: Tom Ray's Tierra simulates a virtual computer and its operating system which results in the production of synthetic organisms.