Ready is a program for exploring continuous and discrete cellular automata, including reaction-diffusion systems, on grids and arbitrary meshes. OpenCL is used as the computation engine, to take advantage of the many-core architectures on graphics cards and modern CPUs. OpenCL also allows rules to be written in a text format and compiled on the fly. Ready supports a compact XML-based file format so that images and rules can be shared easily.
Ready supports 1D, 2D and 3D data, as well as polygonal and polyhedral meshes.
Download Ready 0.6 from the releases tab. Ready works on Windows (XP, Vista, 7, 8), Mac OS (10.6+) and Linux.
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Press coverage:
- New Scientist, August 2012: "First gliders navigate ever-changing Penrose universe"
Citations:
- Kaier Wang, Moira L. Steyn-Ross, D. Alistair Steyn-Ross, Marcus T. Wilson, Jamie W. Sleigh, Yoichi Shiraishi "Simulations of pattern dynamics for reaction-diffusion systems via SIMULINK" BMC Systems Biology 8(14), 2014.
- Aubert, Nathanaël, Clément Mosca, Teruo Fujii, Masami Hagiya, and Yannick Rondelez. "Computer-assisted design for scaling up systems based on DNA reaction networks" Journal of The Royal Society Interface 11, no. 93, 2014.
- Millán, Emmanuel N., Paula Martínez, Graciela Verónica Gil Costa, María Fabiana Piccoli, Alicia Marcela Printista, Carlos Bederian, Carlos García Garino, and Eduardo M. Bringa. "Parallel implementation of a cellular automata in a hybrid CPU/GPU environment" In XVIII Congreso Argentino de Ciencias de la Computación. 2013.
- Adam P. Goucher "Gliders in cellular automata on Penrose tilings", Journal of Cellular Automata, Volume 7, Number 5-6, p. 385-392, 2012.
Please cite Ready as:
Tim Hutton, Robert Munafo, Andrew Trevorrow, Tom Rokicki, Dan Wills.
"Ready, a cross-platform implementation of various reaction-diffusion systems."
https://github.com/GollyGang/ready
Blog coverage:
- Tim's blog, December 2012: "Ready 0.5"
- GPU Science, September 2012: "Reaction-Diffusion by the Gray-Scott Model with OpenCL"
- Complex Projective 4-Space, August 2012: "Are you Ready?"
- Mikael Hvidtfeldt Christensen, August 2012: "Reaction-Diffusion Systems"
- Hacker News, July 2012: "First glider discovered in a cellular automata on an aperiodic tiling"
- Aperiodical.com, July 2012: "Ready: reaction-diffusion simulator" [2]
- Tim's blog, September 2010: "reaction-diffusion"
Other packages:
- TexRD (closed source)
- Visions of Chaos (closed source)
- CAPOW
Wanted rules: (help needed)
- K. Maginu, "Reaction-diffusion equation describing morphogenesis I. waveform stability of stationary wave solutions in a one dimensional model", Math. Biosci. 27:1/2 (1975), 17–98 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0025-5564(75)90026-7
- L.Decker 2003, derived from Maginu's (from TexRD)
- L.Decker 2002, derived from Ginzburg-Landau (from TexRD)
- L.Decker 1998, derived from Brusselator (from TexRD)
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