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This is a combined demo of C++ and Rational Rose. It is a variation on the classic Life cellular automata program. "Improvements" include using three different species, with sexes. Live cells must still have only 3, 4, or 5 neighbors to survive, but in order to generate a new lifeform, there must be a female next to the blank space, with a male of the same species somewhere next to her (not necessarily in the same direction). Searches for both the female and the male proceed as on a telephone number pad, as does the process of "time" in general (i.e., which cells get to "go").

The files are as follows:

• wildlife.cpp, the main program

• world.cpp and world.h, the class that holds the primary parameters

• cell.h, the class that provides proximity services, generation of new life forms in empty spaces, etc.

• life.h, the base class of all life forms

• animal.cpp and animal.h, the animal life forms (eventually to be split up further, into herbivore and carnivore)

• plant.cpp and plant.h, the plant life forms (possibly eventually to be split up further)

• lffctory.cpp and lffctory.h, the class that creates a new life form, either randomly chosen or to duplicate an existing one

• wildlife.ide, the Borland project file

• wildlife.exe, the executable

• wildlife.mdl, the Rational Rose model