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  1. /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
  2. // Name:        samples.inc
  3. // Purpose:     Sample configurations for Life!
  4. // Author:      Guillermo Rodriguez Garcia, <guille@iies.es>
  5. // Modified by:
  6. // Created:     Jan/2000
  7. // RCS-ID:      $Id: samples.inc,v 1.5 2000/07/15 19:49:47 cvsuser Exp $
  8. // Copyright:   (c) 2000, Guillermo Rodriguez Garcia
  9. // Licence:     wxWindows licence
  10. /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
  11.  
  12. // --------------------------------------------------------------------------
  13. // sample configurations
  14. // --------------------------------------------------------------------------
  15.  
  16. /* Format:
  17.  *
  18.  * Name,
  19.  * Description,
  20.  * Width,
  21.  * Height,
  22.  * Data ('*' = alive, '.' = dead)
  23.  * 
  24.  */
  25.  
  26. const LifePattern g_patterns[] =
  27. {
  28.     LifePattern(
  29.                _("Glider"),
  30.                _("The glider is the first of a series of life forms, known "
  31.                  "as spaceships or fishes, which can travel along the game "
  32.                  "field retaining their original shape."),
  33.                3, 3,
  34.                ".*."
  35.                "..*"
  36.                "***"),
  37.     LifePattern(
  38.                _("Heavyweight spaceship"),
  39.                _("The glider is just the smaller of the spaceships; this "
  40.                  "one, known as the heavyweight spaceship or 'big fish', "
  41.                  "is the largest spaceship which can travel alone without "
  42.                  "destroying itself. Larger ones can only travel safely "
  43.                  "if they are supported by smaller spaceships."),
  44.                7, 4,
  45.                ".....*."
  46.                "......*"
  47.                "*.....*"
  48.                ".******"),
  49.     LifePattern(
  50.                _("Eater"),
  51.                _("An eater is any still life that can repair itself from "
  52.                  "some attacks. This one (bottom right), also known as "
  53.                  "'fishhook', eats gliders and fishes (spaceships) provided "
  54.                  "that they approach in a certain angle."),
  55.                10, 10,
  56.                ".*........"
  57.                "..*......."
  58.                "***......."
  59.                ".........."
  60.                ".........."
  61.                ".........."
  62.                "......**.."
  63.                "......*.*."
  64.                "........*."
  65.                "........**" ),
  66.     LifePattern(
  67.                _("Dice shaker"),
  68.                _("Oscillators have been extensively explored in Life!. "
  69.                  "The dice shaker turns around each seven tics; thus, it "
  70.                  "is an oscillator with a period of fourteen."),
  71.                7, 6,
  72.                ".**.**."
  73.                ".**.**."
  74.                "..*.*.."
  75.                "*.*.*.*"
  76.                "*.*.*.*"
  77.                "**...**" ),
  78.     LifePattern(
  79.                _("Hertz oscillator"),
  80.                _("The Hertz oscillator is a good example of a set of life "
  81.                  "patterns known as 'billiard tables'. A billiard table is "
  82.                  "an oscillator which is built inside a stable border. In "
  83.                  "particular, this one has a period of eight."),
  84.                14, 11,
  85.                ".....**......."
  86.                ".....**......."
  87.                ".............."
  88.                "**...****...**"
  89.                "*.*.*....*.*.*"
  90.                "..*.**...*.*.."
  91.                "*.*.*....*.*.*"
  92.                "**...****...**"
  93.                ".............."
  94.                ".......**....."
  95.                ".......**....." ),
  96.     LifePattern(
  97.                _("Phoenix"),
  98.                _("A phoenix is a pattern whose cells all die in every "
  99.                  "generation, and yet lives forever. For example, this is "
  100.                  "a phoenix with period two."),
  101.                8, 8,
  102.                "....*..."
  103.                "..*.*..."
  104.                "......*."
  105.                "**......"
  106.                "......**"
  107.                ".*......"
  108.                "...*.*.."
  109.                "...*...." ),
  110.     LifePattern(
  111.                _("R-pentomino"),
  112.                _("The R-pentomino is a methuselah - a life form which "
  113.                  "lives for hundreds of generations without stabilizing "
  114.                  "or dying. In particular, the R-Pentomino requires more "
  115.                  "than one thousand tics to reach a stable (periodic) "
  116.                  "state."),
  117.                3, 3,
  118.                ".**"
  119.                "**."
  120.                ".*." ),
  121.     LifePattern(
  122.                _("Thunderbird"),
  123.                _("The thunderbird is another popular methuselah, which "
  124.                  "doesn't stabilize until the 243th generation. Note that "
  125.                  "because the initial configuration is symmetrical with "
  126.                  "respect to the vertical axis, all generations must be "
  127.                  "symmetrical as well."),
  128.                3, 5,
  129.                "***"
  130.                "..."
  131.                ".*."
  132.                ".*."
  133.                ".*." ),
  134.     LifePattern(
  135.                _("Accorn"),
  136.                _("Probably the most popular methuselah, the accorn lives "
  137.                  "for 5206 (!) generations."),
  138.                7, 3,
  139.                ".*....."
  140.                "...*..."
  141.                "**..***" ),
  142.     LifePattern(
  143.                _("Galaxy"),
  144.                _("One from my personal collection. It is really beautiful "
  145.                  "to see this configuration expand and shrink periodically "
  146.                  "for hundreds of tics before reaching a stable state."),
  147.                13, 13,
  148.                "...***......."
  149.                "......*......"
  150.                "......*......"
  151.                "......*.....*"
  152.                ".....***....*"
  153.                "....*...*...*"
  154.                ".****...****."
  155.                "*...*...*...."
  156.                "*....***....."
  157.                "*.....*......"
  158.                "......*......"
  159.                "......*......"
  160.                ".......***..." ),
  161.     LifePattern(
  162.                _("Glider gun"),
  163.                _("A gun is a stationary pattern that emits spaceships "
  164.                  "forever. The glider gun shown here was the first known "
  165.                  "gun, and indeed the first known finite pattern with "
  166.                  "unbounded growth. It was found by Bill Gosper in "
  167.                  "November 1970. Many new guns have since been found."),
  168.                36, 9,
  169.                ".........................*.........."
  170.                "......................****.........."
  171.                ".............*.......****..........."
  172.                "............*.*......*..*.........**"
  173.                "...........*...**....****.........**"
  174.                "**.........*...**.....****.........."
  175.                "**.........*...**........*.........."
  176.                "............*.*....................."
  177.                ".............*......................" ),
  178.     LifePattern(
  179.                _("Puffer train"),
  180.                _("A puffer is an object that moves like a spaceship, except "
  181.                  "that it leaves a trail of debris behind. The puffer train "
  182.                  "is one of the best-known puffers. Originally found by "
  183.                  "Bill Gosper, this is a very dirty puffer; the tail does "
  184.                  "not stabilize until generation 5533. It consists of a "
  185.                  "B-heptomino (the middle pattern) escorted by two light "
  186.                  "weight space ships."),
  187.                5, 18,
  188.                "...*."
  189.                "....*"
  190.                "*...*"
  191.                ".****"
  192.                "....."
  193.                "....."
  194.                "....."
  195.                "*...."
  196.                ".**.."
  197.                "..*.."
  198.                "..*.."
  199.                ".*..."
  200.                "....."
  201.                "....."
  202.                "...*."
  203.                "....*"
  204.                "*...*"
  205.                ".****" ),
  206.     LifePattern(
  207.                _("Max"),
  208.                _("Max is the fastest-growing known pattern in Conway's Game "
  209.                  "of Life (possibly the fastest possible). It fills space to "
  210.                  "a density of 1/2, conjectured to be the maximum density, "
  211.                  "and does it at a speed of c/2 in each of the 4 directions, "
  212.                  "which has been proven to be the maximum possible speed.\n"
  213.                  "\n"
  214.                  "Population growth is:\n"
  215.                  "[(t+19)^2+463]/4 for t divisible by 4;\n"
  216.                  "[(t+19)^2+487]/4 for t even, not div. by 4;\n"
  217.                  "[(t+18)^2+639]/4 for t odd.\n"
  218.                  "\n"
  219.                  "Original construction, top/bottom stretchers by Hartmut "
  220.                  "Holzwart; Size optimization, left/right stretchers by David "
  221.                  "Bell; Original idea, middle part, left/right stretcher "
  222.                  "connection by Al Hensel.\n"
  223.                  "\n"
  224.                  "This spacefiller by David Bell, September 1993."),
  225.                29, 43,
  226.                ".....*.*....................."
  227.                "....*..*....................."
  228.                "...**........................"
  229.                "..*.........................."
  230.                ".****........................"
  231.                "*....*......................."
  232.                "*..*........................."
  233.                "*..*........................."
  234.                ".*.........***...***........."
  235.                "..****.*..*..*...*..*........"
  236.                "...*...*.....*...*..........."
  237.                "....*........*...*..........."
  238.                "....*.*......*...*..........."
  239.                "............................."
  240.                "...***.....***...***........."
  241.                "...**.......*.....*.........."
  242.                "...***......*******.........."
  243.                "...........*.......*........."
  244.                "....*.*...***********........"
  245.                "...*..*..*............**....."
  246.                "...*.....************...*...."
  247.                "...*...*.............*...*..."
  248.                "....*...************.....*..."
  249.                ".....**............*..*..*..."
  250.                "........***********...*.*...."
  251.                ".........*.......*..........."
  252.                "..........*******......***..."
  253.                "..........*.....*.......**..."
  254.                ".........***...***.....***..."
  255.                "............................."
  256.                "...........*...*......*.*...."
  257.                "...........*...*........*...."
  258.                "...........*...*.....*...*..."
  259.                "........*..*...*..*..*.****.."
  260.                ".........***...***.........*."
  261.                ".........................*..*"
  262.                ".........................*..*"
  263.                ".......................*....*"
  264.                "........................****."
  265.                "..........................*.."
  266.                "........................**..."
  267.                ".....................*..*...."
  268.                ".....................*.*....." )
  269. };
  270.