>I haven't run Glenn's programs -- yet -- but I have studied nonlinear
>dynamics for a number of years. More recently I have used genetic
>algorithms to solve some design problems that occur in my work. The
>reproduction of genomes in a population can be modeled as a nonlinear
>dynamical process. Nonlinear dynamical systems tend to occupy well-defined
>regions of their phase spaces with voids between them, with each region's
>shape and size a function of the initial conditions and other parameters.
>The lack of transitions isn't even mildly surprising to a nonlinear
>dynamicist. (Glenn: will your Basic code run under Windows NT? I
>considered trying to convert it to Visual Basic, but that didn't seem worth
>the effort)
I have no idea (My computer is a boat anchor now, a 486/66 and Windows 3.1).
I have the code in pascal if you would want it. What I have in basic, is
the "basic" code that creates the screen critters. It is also in
Foundation,Fall and Flood.
glenn
Adam, Apes, and Anthropology: Finding the Soul of Fossil Man
and
Foundation, Fall and Flood
http://www.isource.net/~grmorton/dmd.htm