gLife 0.1.1 "Brown Paper Bag" released

[Ali Abdin <aliabdin aucegypt edu>]

gLife
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gLife embodies the concepts found in Artificial Life. The main difference
though is that is is biased towards creating an Artificial Society. It's goal
is to provide a limited set of rules, and then watch some sort of "society"
emerge. Hopefully you will encounter trends that are found with animals
interacting with the terrain and with each other.


0.1.1 release:

A few minor improvements to the program. No new functionality, but if you disliked
the responsivness of the first release, experiences any bugs, or would like the new random movement algorithm - this is for you.

* Availability:

	- Webpage: http://glife.sourceforge.net
	- Download: http://www.sourceforge.net/project/?form_grp=748
		Check the releases section
* Bugfixes:

	- The GUI no longer blocks (much) while running

	- Only one preferences box is opened at a time (so now you can't crash when
	  you open multiple preferences box)

	- No longer get all those assertions/warnings when you try to change the
	  terrain color without starting the simulation

* Improvements:
	
	- Implemented the PROPER random movement algorithm

	- Movement doesn't always occur at 'once', you get to see the animals
	  moving

	- Should be a bit more efficient (thanks to gprof, I reduced the usage of
	  the most CPU intensive function)

	- Defaults changed to be a bit more "compassionate" to the CPU and memory

Requirements:

	- A recent gnome-libs (1.0.53 or above)

	- A recent libglade (versions prior to 0.11 have the potential to segfault)

Have fun,
Ali Abdin (aliabdin@aucegypt.edu)