QuFince
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QuFince is a search utility developed by Adam P. Goucher.
The input is provided via a two-state configuration RLE describing the search space. The utility uses the GPU to generate and test collisions belonging to a given Cartesian product space. Some optimisations are implemented to improve over a "naive" enumeration of collisions, including deduplication and invalid interaction elimination.
The input can be provided to perform CatForce-style searches instead of enumerating collisions (by letting the initial input pattern be an active pattern, and having different types and orientations of catalysts as reactants).
The name "QuFince" is inspired by CatForce, with the "F" letter inserted before the preantepenultimate letter in the Spanish word for 15 instead of the Spanish word for 14.
Links
- QuFince: a GPU-accelerated collision search program (discussion thread) at the ConwayLife.com forums