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Cloud Cultivator v1.12
======================
!CloudCult - The main application.
Textures - Contains a number of text descriptions of clouds.
These may be dragged into the application's main window.
Longer description
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Cloud Cultivator generates cloud images using a range of techniques
including inverse two dimensional fast-fourier-transforms of filtered
noise. Genetic methods are used to seed them enabling breeding, selective
mutation, cultural transmission of colour and sexual recombination to be
implemented. The program supports seamless tesselation, twenty-four bit
colour and full control over cloud animation.
Getting started
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Run the application and drag a few text files from inside the "Textures"
directory into its main window.
The program supports interactive help. After loading the program onto
the icon bar, and viewing its main window, the first thing to do is to
load some clouds. The program should normally have been supplied with a
range of clouds in the "Textures" directory. These are files which may
be dragged into the program's main window. When one has been dragged
in, an hourglass will appear for a moment, and then the cloud is
displayed.
Notes
~~~~~
Cloud Cultivator works on all major Acorn RISC systems except RISC-OS 2.
It should be able to operate from a read-only medium, though you will be
unable to save your preferences or store any palettes you generate.
It is a stripped down application with minimal documentation designed
specifically for distribution in Acorn User's *Info section.
The images it generates will always tile seamlessly, meaning that
they can be tesselated for use as backgrounds.
The front end supports images up to 1024x1024 pixels.
The program can generate static images of clouds which may be saved, and
mutated offspring may be generated. Different species of clouds may also
be sexually combined to generate new images.
It can also be used to generate animations, which may be saved as
directories of sprites, multiple image sprite files, or animated GIFs,
using the InterGIF interface.
Control is largely via the mouse, with F1-F10 performing various
functions.
Many mouse clicks may have their function modified by pressing SHIFT,
CTRL or ALT.
If you want to convert all the highly compressed bytecode clouds to a
more readable format, this may be done by loading Cloud Cultivator and
dragging the 'Clouds' directory to its icon bar icon.
Enjoy.
� Tim Tyler 1996-1997.
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|im |yler The Mandala Centre - tt@cryogen.com - http://www.mandala.co.uk
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0a 66 75 |rming various.fu| 000008b0 6e 63 74 69 6f 6e 73 2e 0a 0a 4d 61 6e 79 20 6d |nctions...Many m| 000008c0 6f 75 73 65 20 63 6c 69 63 6b 73 20 6d 61 79 20 |ouse clicks may | 000008d0 68 61 76 65 20 74 68 65 69 72 20 66 75 6e 63 74 |have their funct| 000008e0 69 6f 6e 20 6d 6f 64 69 66 69 65 64 20 62 79 20 |ion modified by | 000008f0 70 72 65 73 73 69 6e 67 20 53 48 49 46 54 2c 0a |pressing SHIFT,.| 00000900 43 54 52 4c 20 6f 72 20 41 4c 54 2e 0a 0a 49 66 |CTRL or ALT...If| 00000910 20 79 6f 75 20 77 61 6e 74 20 74 6f 20 63 6f 6e | you want to con| 00000920 76 65 72 74 20 61 6c 6c 20 74 68 65 20 68 69 67 |vert all the hig| 00000930 68 6c 79 20 63 6f 6d 70 72 65 73 73 65 64 20 62 |hly compressed b| 00000940 79 74 65 63 6f 64 65 20 63 6c 6f 75 64 73 20 74 |ytecode clouds t| 00000950 6f 20 61 0a 6d 6f 72 65 20 72 65 61 64 61 62 6c |o a.more readabl| 00000960 65 20 66 6f 72 6d 61 74 2c 20 74 68 69 73 20 6d |e format, this m| 00000970 61 79 20 62 65 20 64 6f 6e 65 20 62 79 20 6c 6f |ay be done by lo| 00000980 61 64 69 6e 67 20 43 6c 6f 75 64 20 43 75 6c 74 |ading Cloud Cult| 00000990 69 76 61 74 6f 72 20 61 6e 64 0a 64 72 61 67 67 |ivator and.dragg| 000009a0 69 6e 67 20 74 68 65 20 27 43 6c 6f 75 64 73 27 |ing the 'Clouds'| 000009b0 20 64 69 72 65 63 74 6f 72 79 20 74 6f 20 69 74 | directory to it| 000009c0 73 20 69 63 6f 6e 20 62 61 72 20 69 63 6f 6e 2e |s icon bar icon.| 000009d0 0a 0a 45 6e 6a 6f 79 2e 0a 0a a9 20 54 69 6d 20 |..Enjoy.... Tim | 000009e0 54 79 6c 65 72 20 31 39 39 36 2d 31 39 39 37 2e |Tyler 1996-1997.| 000009f0 0a 5f 5f 5f 5f 5f 5f 5f 5f 5f 5f 0a 20 7c 69 6d |.__________. |im| 00000a00 20 7c 79 6c 65 72 20 20 54 68 65 20 4d 61 6e 64 | |yler The Mand| 00000a10 61 6c 61 20 43 65 6e 74 72 65 20 2d 20 74 74 40 |ala Centre - tt@| 00000a20 63 72 79 6f 67 65 6e 2e 63 6f 6d 20 2d 20 68 74 |cryogen.com - ht| 00000a30 74 70 3a 2f 2f 77 77 77 2e 6d 61 6e 64 61 6c 61 |tp://www.mandala| 00000a40 2e 63 6f 2e 75 6b 0a |.co.uk.| 00000a47
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