README file for sbart2.2b

Created (October 27, 1993), Revised (August 16, 1994), Revised (July 10, 1996), Revised (September 6, 1996), Revised (December 23, 1996)

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This program named sbart is a design support system to create an interesting 2-D CG image based on artificial selection, which was originally proposed as Artificial Evolution by Mr. Karl Sims at Thinking Machines Co.

Please refer to following papers.

Karl Sims, Artificial Evolution for Computer Graphics, Computer Graphics, Vol.25, No.4, pp.319-328 (July 1991)
Tatsuo Unemi, Simulated Breeding and its Applications, Textbook for the Seminar "Exploring new extension on Genetic Algorithms, Neural Nets and Fuzzy," Institute for System, Control and Information Engineers, pp.101-110 (September and October 1993) (in Japanese)
Tatsuo Unemi, The World of Arts that Artificial Life Creates, in T. Shibata and T. Fukuda (eds), Near Future of Artificial Life, Jiji-tsuushin-sha, 69-86, 1994 (in Japanese)

Copyright

This is a freeware that you can freely copy and modify in any manner you want except for commercial purposes. If you'd like to use this program for any commercial purpose, please contact the following person.

Tatsuo UNEMI (Prof.)
Department of Information Systems Science, Soka University
1-236 Tangi-cho, Hachioji, 192 Tokyo, Japan.
Tel: +81-426-91-9429/9400, Fax: +81-426-91-9325
Email: [email protected]

The copyright of the picture by this program belongs who operates this system to breed it.

Facility requirements

UNIX workstation with X Window System, Motif library and color display. I certified that sbart works well on the following machines, so far.

HP Apollo 9000 HP-UX 9.05, X11R5, Motif 1.2
SunSPARCStation Soralis 2.5, X11R6, Motif 1.2
JCC JP4 PReP BSD 4.4+, X11R5, Motif 1.2
PC i586 Linux 2.0, XFree86 (X11R6), Moo-TIFF (Motif 2.0)

Both the eight bits pseudo-color and the 8, 16, and 24 bits true color displays are supported, but more than eight bits true color is strongly recommended. Whole source codes are written in C language referring to Xlib and Motif library, so your system has to include C, Xlib and Motif development kits for installation from the source code. This software is based in part on the work of the Independent JPEG Group, that is, it also links JPEG6 library, if exists, to support saving image into JPEG file.

How to install

Extract source files from the archive.
```
	% zcat sbart2.2b.tar.gz | tar xf -
```
Compile and Link to make the executable module with a suitable description file for your system. Edit "Compile.csh" if your JPEG6 header files and library are not located under /usr/local/include/jpeg6 and /usr/local/lib/jpeg6, befor invoke Compile.csh. The function to save an image into JPEG file is omitted if the library could not be found.
```
	% cd sbarttc
	% Compile.csh
```

Move the executable module, manual page and help file to a suitable directory if you want to do so.

	% mv sbart /usr/local/bin/sbart
	% mv sbart.man /usr/local/man/man1/sbart.1
	% mkdir -p /usr/local/lib/sbart
	% mv sbart.cat /usr/local/lib/sbart

Remove the working directory if you want to do so.
```
	% cd ..; rm -rf sbarttc
```

How to use

Enter the following command to see a sample images.

	% sbart Album

See manual page included in sbart.man for detail. The Help button also helps you to see the manual page.