Re: Looking for Game of Life program...

[Ilmari Karonen]

[Crossposted and followups set to comp.theory.cell-automata.]

On 2011-05-06, Hauke Reddmann <fc3...@uni-hamburg.de> wrote:
> ...yes, I can google myself and there is no shortage :-)
> But I'd like to have a special feature:
> if your "seed" consists of a rather large black-and-white
> bitmap image, how can I use this as input for a Life
> simulation without having to type in each cell by hand?
> ".lif" (MCell et al) sounds like a very, eh, un-plain
> format.

Actually, most of the ".lif" formats (there are actually several that
use that suffix) are pretty simple text files. For example, a glider
in the Life 1.05 format is simply:

#Life 1.05
***
*..
.*.

However, if you'd prefer to use bitmap images, it seems that Golly, at
least, supports loading those. I would recommend it in any case: it's
one of the latest and fastest general purpose CA simulators out there.

Links:

http://golly.sourceforge.net/
http://golly.sourceforge.net/Help/file.html
http://psoup.math.wisc.edu/mcell/ca_files_formats.html

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Ilmari Karonen
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