MINI-EXPLOR
Ken Knowlton · ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics · 1975
The EXPLOR language, which generates designs from Explicit 2-D Patterns, Local Operations, and Randomness, has been useful not only in providing the computer novice with graphic output; it has also been a vehicle for introducing many other basic computational notions: algorithms, nested loops, sorting, heuristics and search, cellular automata, Monte Carlo calculations, finite state machines.This paper described a simplified version of the system, coded in only 430 lines of FORTRAN, which can run on most 16-bit word (or larger) machines having 8K to 16K of core storage. Such an implementation, by means of line printer or teletype output, can now produce almost as rich a variety of results as previously-reported much larger versions.