add notices to those who wish for a greater challenge
We add the following level-3 header to help people identify text they may wish to skip if they wish for a greater challenge: ``` ``` After that notice we add: ``` **If you want a greater challenge, don't read any further**: just try to understand the program via the source. If you get stuck, come back and read below for additional hints and information. ``` And sometimes follow with: ``` ``` Or sometimes follow with: ``` ``` Where the alt code impacts a "greater challenge", we add instead: ``` **If you want a greater challenge, don't read any further**: just try to understand the program without looking at the Alternate code. If you get stuck, come back and look at the Alternate code. ``` And where a given command impacts a "greater challenge", we add instead: ``` **If you want a greater challenge, don't read any further**: just try to understand the program without running the command below. If you get stuck, come back and run the following command: ``` Perform `make www` to perform the above and test under macOS.
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@@ -225,20 +225,6 @@ character juxtaposed against a very ancient one, not to mention the program
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includes some famous name dropping and documents itself as usual.
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### Further spoilers, engineering, and obfuscation galore:
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Those wait for you, curious and intrepid reader, in the attached
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[apholife.c](%%REPO_URL%%/2019/dogon/apholife.c) file, which is a partially obfuscated version of the
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program I wrote with a lot of helpful annotations and comments for myself and
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posterity, revealing some of the magic under the hood. This program is also a
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somewhat improved version which uses `ldexp()`s in the draw routine and has
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bigger constants, so it can zoom up to level 1024 if memory allows, and it tries
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its best to avoid dumping core on the poor user when its memory runs out, rather
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it enters freeze mode where you can still travel in calculated frozen
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space-time. Well, it's not nice and tame, it even has an escape key, usage
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message, and to top it all it even avoids `gets(3)`!
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### Special thanks:
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To Tom Rockiki, the original co-writer of Golly, a personal friend and hashlife
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@@ -258,6 +244,28 @@ most obfuscated way of calculating the GOL function on a 64 bits `8*8` leaf:
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This uses only 19 bitwise operations and six shifts to calculate the inner 6x6
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next generation bits of the input 8x8 !
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### NOTICE to those who wish for a greater challenge
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**If you want a greater challenge, don't read any further**:
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just try to understand the program via the source.
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If you get stuck, come back and read below for additional hints and information.
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### Further information, engineering, and obfuscation galore:
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Those wait for you, curious and intrepid reader, in the attached
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[apholife.c](%%REPO_URL%%/2019/dogon/apholife.c) file, which is a partially obfuscated version of the
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program I wrote with a lot of helpful annotations and comments for myself and
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posterity, revealing some of the magic under the hood. This program is also a
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somewhat improved version which uses `ldexp()`s in the draw routine and has
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bigger constants, so it can zoom up to level 1024 if memory allows, and it tries
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its best to avoid dumping core on the poor user when its memory runs out, rather
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it enters freeze mode where you can still travel in calculated frozen
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space-time. Well, it's not nice and tame, it even has an escape key, usage
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message, and to top it all it even avoids `gets(3)`!
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