Other math programs

This page lists some other math programs that is too crowded to be listed on the main page. Be sure to the out the main page: Great Math Programs

Other cellular automata softwares

2002-06: Stephen Wolfram published a new book for Cellular Automata (CA) fans, so called A New Kind of Science (2002). The book is is widely advertised, and is filled with narcissistic personality disorder writing style. However, the book has solid content on Cellular Automata and related concepts, worth the $45 price. Along with the book, he has spawned off from Mathematica a program that does CA as discussed in his book. It is so-called A New Kind of Science Explorer. OSXMacWinLinux

Professor W Edwin Clark has collected reviews of the book so-captioned A New kind of science. http://www.math.usf.edu/~eclark/ANKOS_reviews.html

see also _Rule 110 as it Relates to the Presence of Gliders_ (1999) by Harold V. Mcintosh, at http://delta.cs.cinvestav.mx/~mcintosh/comun/RULE110W/RULE110.html.

Other plane tiling programs

Tess is a symmetry-drawing program made by Pedagoguery Software Inc. Available for Mac and Windows. http://www.peda.com/tess/Welcome.htmlMacWin

PlaneTiling is a Mathematica package for tiling and symmetry illustrations. Author is Xah Lee (me). Requires Mathematica to run. http://xahlee.org/MathGraphicsGallery_dir/PlaneTilingPackageDemo_dir/planeTilingPackageDemo.html For more programs that does symmetry or tiling related topic, see http://xahlee.org/Wallpaper_dir/c6_RelatedWebSites.html

RepTiles v.2.0.1 (screenshot) is a plane tiling shareware written by two mathematicians Daniel H. Huson and Olaf Delgado Friedrichs↗. The program is capable of generating all possible periodic tiling of the plane. By the words of the authors: “... for interactively designing and systematically generating periodic 2-dimensional tilings and patterns, study symmetry and 2-dimensional geometry, if you are a mathematician, enumerate possible 2-dimensional crystal-structures, if you are a crystallographer or chemist, design complex and interesting patterns, if you are a designer, or explore a whole new world of fascinating periodic structures, if you are, well, just interested.” This program is a bit mathematical, but can be fun for layperson. It is a rare tool for crystallographer and mathematicans. URL: ftp://ftp.uni-bielefeld.de/pub/math/tiling/reptiles/. (Note: This program is from 1995 era. The software downloaded from the ftp site is missing data files, making the software not usable. I don't have a copy of it.) Mac

Some other programs for polytopes

HyperDimension (1999) Ishihama Yoshiaki has written several interesting programs. Many of them are related to high dimensions, including a 4 and 5 dimensional Rubic cube simulators. His programs are small and original, but the interface is very crude. Check out his webpage for more http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~hq8y-ishm/hyper.html. Ishihama Yoshiaki's software are usually raw and unpolished. (2002-07) MacJava

HyperSpace 2.0 (1990) is another higher-dimentional polytope viewer, by Paul Bruke. It does not let you drag and spin, but offers both multiple slice view and projection view on about 4 regular polyhedrons. Paul Bruke's software page is at: http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/~pbourke/geometry/hyperspace/index.html. Ask Paul to update this software. (2002) Mac

Tesseract (1998/05) Charlie Dickman wrote a elaborate 4 dimensional Rubic cube simulator. The interface is elaborate, but badly designed. It comes with a fairly large documentation. The documentation includes explaination of 4-dimensional Rubic cube. Get it from David Bagley's webpage at http://wauug.erols.com/~bagleyd/ (the site used to contain a mac version, but now (2000/09) only unix.). Linux

Stewart Coffin's The Puzzling World of Polyhedral Dissections, now online free at: http://johnrausch.com/PuzzlingWorld/default.htm This book specify in detail a whole type of puzzles that is made of interlocking blocks of various shapes that assemble into regular polyhedrons or beautiful objects of such symmetry.