Clastic

This is not yet a finished, user-friendly "production" application, but a collection of tools for people who want to experiment. It contains more than 300 functions, but everything is documented rather superficially. You will be able to produce pictures like these:

   

   

or perhaps:

   

but you will have to write some programs. Clastic offers you a simplistic graphical interface just for your tests.

Clastic works (tested) under Windows NT/2000 under Clean 1.3.3. The conversion to Clean 2.0 is in progress. It may work on other platforms as well, its functional layer is platform-independent, but all visualization uses the Windows Object IO (don't blame me...), so on other platforms it will be able just to generate bitmap files. Currently the only format accepted is the full-colour (24 bits) BMP.

• Load all Clastic modules as a .zipped file

• Load a tutorial which is for the moment the only documentation available (but quite voluminous anyway, 70 pages, with plenty of pictures...)

• Uncompress the zipped stuff in a folder called (for example) Clastic, inside your Clean directory. Declare this directory in the search path defaults for the compiler. It contains two sub-directories: Examples, and Extras. They should also belong to the compiler collection of searched paths.

• The folder Extras contains the file osbitmap.dcl. Replace the standard one, within the Windows subdirectory of the IO library, by this one. This is "mostly harmless" (well, it should be...), since the only modification consists in making visible the structure of the Bitmap object.

• Read the tutorial. Compile and execute some examples.

• Tell me what do you think, warn me about bugs, or perhaps just say what would you like to have here.

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