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New Haven 0.92 -- First public BETA release
A toolkit to create and operate complex stimuli environments for simulations
The operative part provides interactive and simultaneous management of
several independant high bandwidth input systems running on a network of
computers; an input system being here a combination of two dimensional
surfaces which can generate dynamic data patterns and are chosen from a
range of available topologies.
The creative part of New Haven is made of an Objective-C library that helps
design these input generators and that describes the interaction protocols
between input system, simulation system and the management application.
This library also provides specialized support for designing cellular automata,
which can then be used as stimuli generators in this environmnent.
New Haven has grown out of difficulties to stay in control of my neural net
simulations. A (non-exhaustive) list of these include:
- make concurrent processes work together
- ... over computer boundaries
- interactive manipulation of system parameters
- running several simulations simultaneously
- long execution times and persistance
- interactive recombination of system components.
- keep track of system evolution
New Haven is an attempt to throw all this into a graphical user interface that
avoids the mostly negative stress involved with dealing with these problems,
and thus brings more fun and creativity into experimentation through
managability. You can graphically set up and assist simulation systems with
complex input paths without becoming involved in the unromantic work of
writing the code that makes these components interact. You can focus the
attention to the actual input component functionality and are provided with
construction material for dynamic and spatially distributed stimuli structures.
You have a standard means of interaction for all applications that conform to
New Haven, as well as a graphical event driven interface application that
organizes this interaction and offers a set of management features which can
be used by these applications..
The package contains several example applications and their sources, Intel
binaries for the management application, and Intel binaries plus documentation
for the library. New Haven is shareware, and information about source code
licenses for the library and the management application is available upon
registration. Registration also remains valid for future releases.
The package.needs Installer.app to install. The installation procedure will
then open a RTF file with further explanations. The software has been
developed under Nextstep 3.2 and should require at least 3.0 to run. It is
still in BETA testing. Therefore it runs at present only on Intel CPUs. You
are invited to play with it and post me your reactions (and/or bug reports ;-)
Serge Thill -- Email: serge.thill@coctel.lu --- 29 march 1997.
New Haven 0.92 can be obtained from:
ftp://ftp.crpht.lu/pub/sources/next/newhaven/NewHaven.0.92.README
ftp://ftp.crpht.lu/pub/sources/next/newhaven/NewHaven.0.92.I.pkg.tar.gz
It has also been submitted to the peanuts archive and will hopefully soon be
available under:
ftp://ftp.leo.org/pub/comp/platforms/next/Science/misc/NewHaven.0.92.README
ftp://ftp.leo.org/pub/comp/platforms/next/Science/misc/NewHaven.0.92.I.pkg.tar.gz
These are the contents of the former NiCE NeXT User Group NeXTSTEP/OpenStep software archive, currently hosted by Netfuture.ch.