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The Desktop Information and Animation Center. Replace your Wallpaper with a Calendar, Websearch Tools or Browsers. Admire a stunning Earth Simulation, thousands of Webcams, Slideshows or unique combinations of all of this. Integrate a calendar into your desktop that can remind you of dates or appointments. Have online search tools always available. Display a webbrowser that can shuffle through a list of websites to show useful information from e.g. newssites, weathersites, your own local webpages, etc.
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earth browser
earth view
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EarthBrowser is an innovative earth simulation that combines an easy to navigate 3 dimensional globe with real-time weather conditions and 7 day forecasts for thousands of locations. Live earthquakes, webcams, volcanoes and current cloud formations are also featured. A screen saver option lets it take over your desktop with a gorgeous image when you are away from your computer. Great educational tool, a must have for avid weather watchers!
DeskoverX: http://www.deskoverx.com/downloads/deskoverx.exe
EarthBrowser: http://globe.earthbrowser.com/downloads/EarthBrowser.3.1.3.dmg.zip |
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A cellular automaton consists of:
(a) A structure of cells, such as the squares on a chess board.
(b) A set of values or "states" such that each cell is associated with a particular state.
(c) A set of rules describing how one state of the system (a particular configuration of cells in specific states) is to be transformed or converted to another state of the system.
This is software for exploring five cellular automata, as follows:
1. An extended version of Conway's Life, called q-state Life.
2. A simulation of the Belousov-Zhabotinsky chemical reaction in which, beginning from a random state of the system, spirals and curlicues "spontaneously" emerge.
3. A process called Togetherness in which cells with random states move so as to maximize the number of neighbors of each cell in the same state as that cell (or, thought of in another way, in which the cells rearrange themselves so as to form maximal clusters of cells all having the same state).
4. Viral Replication, a simulation of a population of dividing cells subject to viral infection.
5. Diffusion-Limited Aggregation, illustrating a process in which particles diffuse (moving randomly) and aggregate to form a fractal structure.
The documentation provides a complete description of the algorithms used.
Five Cellular Automata: http://www.hermetic.ch/pca/pca_setup.zip
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