Modern Cellular Automata by George Maydwell

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Modern Cellular Automata by George Maydwell

Post by Orangery » October 24th, 2016, 10:10 am

Does anyone know what has happened to the 'Collodoscope.com's Modern CA - Animation Wonderland site?

I used to visit his link quite often... http://www.collidoscope.com/modernca/ but it now seems to be discontinued. I can still find links to the applet but no images whatsoever.

Thanks - Dave.

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Re: Modern Cellular Automata by George Maydwell

Post by dvgrn » October 24th, 2016, 3:22 pm

Orangery wrote:Does anyone know what has happened to the 'Collodoscope.com's Modern CA - Animation Wonderland site?

I used to visit his link quite often... http://www.collidoscope.com/modernca/ but it now seems to be discontinued. I can still find links to the applet but no images whatsoever.
CGOLVE's author, George Maydwell, was active here on the forums briefly in 2011. Since then, I think it's just gotten very difficult to find a browser that doesn't think collidoscope.com's brand of Java applet is an unacceptable security risk. I had trouble getting the Visual Exhibition to run a year or two ago, even with my browser deliberately set to "dangerously low security, not recommended" (or whatever the setting was.)

There's bound to be a way to get that code running again somehow, but until you do, I can see why you wouldn't see any (Java-generated) images.

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