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// Name:        samples.inc
// Purpose:     Sample configurations for Life!
// Author:      Guillermo Rodriguez Garcia, <guille@iies.es>
// Modified by:
// Created:     Jan/2000
// RCS-ID:      $Id$
// Copyright:   (c) 2000, Guillermo Rodriguez Garcia
// Licence:     wxWindows licence
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// sample configurations
// --------------------------------------------------------------------------

/* Format:
 *
 * Name,
 * Description,
 * Width,
 * Height,
 * Data ('*' = alive, '.' = dead)
 * 
 */

const LifeShape g_shapes[] =
{
    LifeShape( _("Glider"),
               _("The glider is the first of a series of life forms, known "
                 "as spaceships or fishes, which can travel along the game "
                 "field retaining their original shape."),
               3, 3,
               ".*."
               "..*"
               "***"),
    LifeShape( _("Heavyweight spaceship"),
               _("The glider is just the smaller of the spaceships; this "
                 "one, known as the heavyweight spaceship or 'big fish', "
                 "is the largest spaceship which can travel alone without "
                 "destroying itself. Larger ones can only travel safely "
                 "if they are supported by smaller spaceships."),
               7, 4,
               ".....*."
               "......*"
               "*.....*"
               ".******"),
    LifeShape( _("Eater"),
               _("An eater is any still life that can repair itself from "
                 "some attacks. This one (bottom right), also known as "
                 "'fishhook', eats gliders and fishes (spaceships) provided "
                 "that they approach in a certain angle."),
               10, 10,
               ".*........"
               "..*......."
               "***......."
               ".........."
               ".........."
               ".........."
               "......**.."
               "......*.*."
               "........*."
               "........**" ),
    LifeShape( _("Dice shaker"),
               _("Oscillators have been extensively explored in Life!. "
                 "The dice shaker turns around each seven tics; thus, it "
                 "is an oscillator with a period of fourteen."),
               7, 6,
               ".**.**."
               ".**.**."
               "..*.*.."
               "*.*.*.*"
               "*.*.*.*"
               "**...**" ),
    LifeShape( _("Hertz oscillator"),
               _("The Hertz oscillator is a good example of a set of life "
                 "patterns known as 'billiard tables'. A billiard table is "
                 "an oscillator which is built inside a stable border. In "
                 "particular, this one has a period of eight."),
               14, 11,
               ".....**......."
               ".....**......."
               ".............."
               "**...****...**"
               "*.*.*....*.*.*"
               "..*.**...*.*.."
               "*.*.*....*.*.*"
               "**...****...**"
               ".............."
               ".......**....."
               ".......**....." ),
    LifeShape( _("Phoenix"),
               _("A phoenix is a pattern whose cells all die in every "
                 "generation, and yet lives forever. For example, this is "
                 "a phoenix with period two."),
               8, 8,
               "....*..."
               "..*.*..."
               "......*."
               "**......"
               "......**"
               ".*......"
               "...*.*.."
               "...*...." ),
    LifeShape( _("R-pentomino"),
               _("The R-pentomino is a methuselah - a life form which "
                 "lives for hundreds of generations without stabilizing "
                 "or dying. In particular, the R-Pentomino requires more "
                 "than one thousand tics to reach a stable (periodic) "
                 "state."),
               3, 3,
               ".**"
               "**."
               ".*." ),
    LifeShape( _("Thunderbird"),
               _("The thunderbird is another popular methuselah, which "
                 "doesn't stabilize until the 243th generation. Note that "
                 "because the initial configuration is symmetrical with "
                 "respect to the vertical axis, all generations must be "
                 "symmetrical as well."),
               3, 5,
               "***"
               "..."
               ".*."
               ".*."
               ".*." ),
    LifeShape( _("Accorn"),
               _("Probably the most popular methuselah, the accorn lives "
                 "for 5206 (!) generations."),
               7, 3,
               ".*....."
               "...*..."
               "**..***" ),
    LifeShape( _("Galaxy"),
               _("One from my personal collection. It is really beautiful "
                 "to see this configuration expand and shrink periodically "
                 "for hundreds of tics before reaching a stable state."),
               13, 13,
               "...***......."
               "......*......"
               "......*......"
               "......*.....*"
               ".....***....*"
               "....*...*...*"
               ".****...****."
               "*...*...*...."
               "*....***....."
               "*.....*......"
               "......*......"
               "......*......"
               ".......***..." ),
    LifeShape( _("Glider gun"),
               _("A gun is a stationary pattern that emits spaceships "
                 "forever. The glider gun shown here was the first known "
                 "gun, and indeed the first known finite pattern with "
                 "unbounded growth. It was found by Bill Gosper in "
                 "November 1970. Many new guns have since been found."),
               36, 9,
               ".........................*.........."
               "......................****....*....."
               ".............*.......****.....*....."
               "............*.*......*..*.........**"
               "...........*...**....****.........**"
               "**.........*...**.....****.........."
               "**.........*...**........*.........."
               "............*.*....................."
               ".............*......................" ),
    LifeShape( _("Puffer train"),
               _("A puffer is an object that moves like a spaceship, except "
                 "that it leaves a trail of debris behind. The puffer train "
                 "is one of the best-known puffers. Originally found by "
                 "Bill Gosper, this is a very dirty puffer; the tail does "
                 "not stabilize until generation 5533. It consists of a "
                 "B-heptomino (the middle pattern) escorted by two light "
                 "weight space ships."),
               5, 18,
               "...*."
               "....*"
               "*...*"
               ".****"
               "....."
               "....."
               "....."
               "*...."
               ".**.."
               "..*.."
               "..*.."
               ".*..."
               "....."
               "....."
               "...*."
               "....*"
               "*...*"
               ".****" ),
    LifeShape( _("Max"),
               _("Max is the fastest-growing known pattern in Conway's Game "
                 "of Life (possibly the fastest possible). It fills space to "
                 "a density of 1/2, conjectured to be the maximum density, "
                 "and does it at a speed of c/2 in each of the 4 directions, "
                 "which has been proven to be the maximum possible speed.\n"
                 "\n"
                 "Population growth is:\n"
                 "[(t+19)^2+463]/4 for t divisible by 4;\n"
                 "[(t+19)^2+487]/4 for t even, not div. by 4;\n"
                 "[(t+18)^2+639]/4 for t odd.\n"
                 "\n"
                 "Original construction, top/bottom stretchers by Hartmut "
                 "Holzwart; Size optimization, left/right stretchers by David "
                 "Bell; Original idea, middle part, left/right stretcher "
                 "connection by Al Hensel.\n"
                 "\n"
                 "This spacefiller by David Bell, September 1993."),
               29, 43,
               ".....*.*....................."
               "....*..*....................."
               "...**........................"
               "..*.........................."
               ".****........................"
               "*....*......................."
               "*..*........................."
               "*..*........................."
               ".*.........***...***........."
               "..****.*..*..*...*..*........"
               "...*...*.....*...*..........."
               "....*........*...*..........."
               "....*.*......*...*..........."
               "............................."
               "...***.....***...***........."
               "...**.......*.....*.........."
               "...***......*******.........."
               "...........*.......*........."
               "....*.*...***********........"
               "...*..*..*............**....."
               "...*.....************...*...."
               "...*...*.............*...*..."
               "....*...************.....*..."
               ".....**............*..*..*..."
               "........***********...*.*...."
               ".........*.......*..........."
               "..........*******......***..."
               "..........*.....*.......**..."
               ".........***...***.....***..."
               "............................."
               "...........*...*......*.*...."
               "...........*...*........*...."
               "...........*...*.....*...*..."
               "........*..*...*..*..*.****.."
               ".........***...***.........*."
               ".........................*..*"
               ".........................*..*"
               ".......................*....*"
               "........................****."
               "..........................*.."
               "........................**..."
               ".....................*..*...."
               ".....................*.*....." )
};
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087e4f4a GRG	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: $Id$
	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,
e0a40292 GRG	20	* Width,
	21	* Height,
	22	* Data ('*' = alive, '.' = dead)
087e4f4a GRG	23	*
	24	*/
	25
e0a40292	26	const LifeShape g_shapes[] =
087e4f4a GRG	27	{
	28	LifeShape( _("Glider"),
	29	_("The glider is the first of a series of life forms, known "
	30	"as spaceships or fishes, which can travel along the game "
	31	"field retaining their original shape."),
	32	3, 3,
	33	".*."
	34	"..*"
	35	"***"),
	36	LifeShape( _("Heavyweight spaceship"),
	37	_("The glider is just the smaller of the spaceships; this "
	38	"one, known as the heavyweight spaceship or 'big fish', "
	39	"is the largest spaceship which can travel alone without "
	40	"destroying itself. Larger ones can only travel safely "
	41	"if they are supported by smaller spaceships."),
	42	7, 4,
	43	".....*."
	44	"......*"
	45	"....."
	46	".******"),
	47	LifeShape( _("Eater"),
	48	_("An eater is any still life that can repair itself from "
	49	"some attacks. This one (bottom right), also known as "
	50	"'fishhook', eats gliders and fishes (spaceships) provided "
	51	"that they approach in a certain angle."),
	52	10, 10,
	53	".*........"
	54	"..*......."
	55	"***......."
	56	".........."
	57	".........."
	58	".........."
	59	"......**.."
	60	"........"
	61	"........*."
	62	"........**" ),
	63	LifeShape( _("Dice shaker"),
	64	_("Oscillators have been extensively explored in Life!. "
	65	"The dice shaker turns around each seven tics; thus, it "
	66	"is an oscillator with a period of fourteen."),
	67	7, 6,
	68	"..."
	69	"..."
	70	"....."
	71	"..."
	72	"..."
	73	"..." ),
	74	LifeShape( _("Hertz oscillator"),
	75	_("The Hertz oscillator is a good example of a set of life "
	76	"patterns known as 'billiard tables'. A billiard table is "
	77	"an oscillator which is built inside a stable border. In "
	78	"particular, this one has a period of eight."),
	79	14, 11,
	80	".....**......."
	81	".....**......."
	82	".............."
	83	"......"
	84	"........"
	85	".......*.."
	86	"........"
	87	"......"
	88	".............."
	89	".......**....."
	90	".......**....." ),
91	LifeShape( _("Phoenix"),
92	_("A phoenix is a pattern whose cells all die in every "
c75ea1a3	93	"generation, and yet lives forever. For example, this is "
087e4f4a GRG	94	"a phoenix with period two."),
	95	8, 8,
	96	"....*..."
	97	"......"
	98	"......*."
	99	"**......"
	100	"......**"
	101	".*......"
	102	"......"
	103	"...*...." ),
	104	LifeShape( _("R-pentomino"),
	105	_("The R-pentomino is a methuselah - a life form which "
	106	"lives for hundreds of generations without stabilizing "
	107	"or dying. In particular, the R-Pentomino requires more "
	108	"than one thousand tics to reach a stable (periodic) "
	109	"state."),
	110	3, 3,
	111	".**"
	112	"**."
e0a40292	113	".*." ),
087e4f4a GRG	114	LifeShape( _("Thunderbird"),
	115	_("The thunderbird is another popular methuselah, which "
	116	"doesn't stabilize until the 243th generation. Note that "
c75ea1a3	117	"because the initial configuration is symmetrical with "
087e4f4a	118	"respect to the vertical axis, all generations must be "
c75ea1a3	119	"symmetrical as well."),
087e4f4a GRG	120	3, 5,
	121	"***"
	122	"..."
	123	".*."
	124	".*."
e0a40292	125	".*." ),
087e4f4a GRG	126	LifeShape( _("Accorn"),
087e4f4a GRG	127	_("Probably the most popular methuselah, the accorn lives "
e0a40292	128	"for 5206 (!) generations."),
087e4f4a GRG	129	7, 3,
	130	".*....."
	131	"...*..."
e0a40292	132	"..*" ),
087e4f4a GRG	133	LifeShape( _("Galaxy"),
	134	_("One from my personal collection. It is really beautiful "
	135	"to see this configuration expand and shrink periodically "
	136	"for hundreds of tics before reaching a stable state."),
	137	13, 13,
	138	"...***......."
	139	"......*......"
	140	"......*......"
	141	"..........."
	142	".....**...."
2480be69 GRG	143	"..........*"
	144	".**...**."
	145	"......*...."
087e4f4a GRG	146	"....**....."
	147	"..........."
	148	"......*......"
	149	"......*......"
e0a40292 GRG	150	".......***..." ),
	151	LifeShape( _("Glider gun"),
	152	_("A gun is a stationary pattern that emits spaceships "
	153	"forever. The glider gun shown here was the first known "
	154	"gun, and indeed the first known finite pattern with "
	155	"unbounded growth. It was found by Bill Gosper in "
	156	"November 1970. Many new guns have since been found."),
	157	36, 9,
	158	".........................*.........."
	159	"......................***........."
	160	"....................**.........."
	161	"..............................**"
	162	"..................*........."
	163	"*.................**.........."
	164	"*............*.................."
	165	".................................."
	166	".............*......................" ),
	167	LifeShape( _("Puffer train"),
	168	_("A puffer is an object that moves like a spaceship, except "
	169	"that it leaves a trail of debris behind. The puffer train "
	170	"is one of the best-known puffers. Originally found by "
	171	"Bill Gosper, this is a very dirty puffer; the tail does "
	172	"not stabilize until generation 5533. It consists of a "
	173	"B-heptomino (the middle pattern) escorted by two light "
	174	"weight space ships."),
	175	5, 18,
	176	"...*."
	177	"....*"
	178	"..."
	179	".****"
	180	"....."
	181	"....."
	182	"....."
	183	"*...."
	184	".**.."
	185	"..*.."
	186	"..*.."
	187	".*..."
	188	"....."
	189	"....."
	190	"...*."
	191	"....*"
	192	"..."
	193	".****" ),
	194	LifeShape( _("Max"),
	195	_("Max is the fastest-growing known pattern in Conway's Game "
	196	"of Life (possibly the fastest possible). It fills space to "
	197	"a density of 1/2, conjectured to be the maximum density, "
	198	"and does it at a speed of c/2 in each of the 4 directions, "
	199	"which has been proven to be the maximum possible speed.\n"
	200	"\n"
	201	"Population growth is:\n"
	202	"[(t+19)^2+463]/4 for t divisible by 4;\n"
	203	"[(t+19)^2+487]/4 for t even, not div. by 4;\n"
	204	"[(t+18)^2+639]/4 for t odd.\n"
	205	"\n"
	206	"Original construction, top/bottom stretchers by Hartmut "
	207	"Holzwart; Size optimization, left/right stretchers by David "
	208	"Bell; Original idea, middle part, left/right stretcher "
	209	"connection by Al Hensel.\n"
	210	"\n"
	211	"This spacefiller by David Bell, September 1993."),
	212	29, 43,
	213	"..........................."
214	"..........................."
215	"...**........................"
216	"..*.........................."
217	".****........................"
218	"..........................."
219	"..........................."
220	"..........................."
221	".............*........."
222	"..***.................."
223	"........................."
224	"...............*..........."
225	"........................."
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	"..........................." )
087e4f4a	256	};