The armchair universe : an exploration of computer worlds / A.K. Dewdney.
Publication details: New York : W.H. Freeman, c1988.Description: xiii, 330 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cmISBN:- 0716719398 (pbk.)
- 071671938X (hard)
- 005.26 19 DEW
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Contents;
World one: Infinite graphics
The Mandelbrot set
Wallpaper for the mind
World two: Mathemagadgets
Analog gadgets
Gadgets revisited
Golomb rulers
Hypercubes
World three: Artificial intelligence and artificial insanity
Conversations with RACTER
Facebender
Perception misperceptions
A checkers program than never loses?
Automated magic
World four: Life in Automa
One-dimensional computers
Three-dimensional life
Busy beavers
World five: Puzzles and wordplay
Bill's baffling Burr, Coffin's cornucopia, and Engel's enigma
The towers of Hanoi and the Chinese rings
Anagrams and pangrams
World six: Stimulation through simulation
Five easy pieces
A cosmic ballet
Sharks and fish on the planet Wa-Tor
The evolution of flibs
The extinction of trilobites and survival of Smiths
World seven: Core wars
Core war
Core war encore
The first core war tournament
Bibliography : p. 309-313 . _ Index : p. 323-330.
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