s a c e s :: Full Release

This is a full release of Friday, December 23, 2005 17:18 (CET)

There are:

• saces.jar, the Java executable bundle,
• saces.exe for Windows,
• the diploma document (read chapter 4 before you start the software),
• the complete Java sources of the software in a zip file,
• the document sources (LaTeX) and

s a c e s :: What's this?

'saces' is a simple tool written in Java which visualizes chemical processes using 3D animation of molecules. It is intended as both an application in artificial chemistry and as an educational tool for students and teachers in chemistry. 'saces' simulates ideal gases in a rectangular reaction vessel. The molecules are hard, colored spheres.

An artificial chemistry is a man-made system that is similar to a real chemical system. There is a population of molecules, a set of reaction rules and an algorithm which executes the reactions. With artificial chemistry many applications are possible: artificial life, chemistry modeling, massively parallel execution of finite automata, and modeling how to solve NP-complete problems.

See page 97 in the graduates' book 2006 of the Berne Univsersity of Applied Sciences and our diploma (almost 2MB).

Further material available here

• A repository of sample experiments,
• An installer of Java 5.0 Update 6 for Windows,
• The JOGL 1.1 Java library jogl.jar,
• the native JOGL library for Windows: jogl.dll,
• the native JOGL library for Linux: libjogl.so,
• the native JOGL library for Mac OS X: libjogl.jnilib and
• the old documents from the summer pre-evaluation phase of the diploma.