QL Hacker’s Journal 4

Date: July 1991
Issue: 4
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Articles

TitleDescriptionComputers
Cellular AutomataBack in college, I was short 1/2 a unit from graduating. To make up the unit, I enrolled in a 1 unit Independent Study course. With hours left before the enrollment deadline, I picked what I thought was a weak but interesting subject, Cellular Automata (CA).Sinclair QL, Type-in program
Editor's ForumThis issue is another one that took some time to come together. I have spent part of the last two months beating my head against a single program. I have been working on a C version of my Cellular Automata program.Sinclair QL
Iterated Function SystemsIFS is what Michael Barnsley calls his Iterated Function Systems, and IFS is another part of fractals (remember those Mandelbrot all-nighters ?). Barnsley did IFS a few years ago and has gone on to bigger and better stuff now.Sinclair QL, Type-in program
Rand_cIn translating one of my pet programs from SuperBasic (first it started in Pascal), I needed a number of random numbers. Not finding a random number generator in Small-C, I decided to write the program in Lattice C. But, Lattice C does not really have any QL graphic functions.Sinclair QL, Type-in program