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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 LifePattern g_patterns[] =
{
    LifePattern(
               _("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,
               ".*."
               "..*"
               "***"),
    LifePattern(
               _("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,
               ".....*."
               "......*"
               "*.....*"
               ".******"),
    LifePattern(
               _("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,
               ".*........"
               "..*......."
               "***......."
               ".........."
               ".........."
               ".........."
               "......**.."
               "......*.*."
               "........*."
               "........**" ),
    LifePattern(
               _("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,
               ".**.**."
               ".**.**."
               "..*.*.."
               "*.*.*.*"
               "*.*.*.*"
               "**...**" ),
    LifePattern(
               _("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,
               ".....**......."
               ".....**......."
               ".............."
               "**...****...**"
               "*.*.*....*.*.*"
               "..*.**...*.*.."
               "*.*.*....*.*.*"
               "**...****...**"
               ".............."
               ".......**....."
               ".......**....." ),
    LifePattern(
               _("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,
               "....*..."
               "..*.*..."
               "......*."
               "**......"
               "......**"
               ".*......"
               "...*.*.."
               "...*...." ),
    LifePattern(
               _("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,
               ".**"
               "**."
               ".*." ),
    LifePattern(
               _("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,
               "***"
               "..."
               ".*."
               ".*."
               ".*." ),
    LifePattern(
               _("Accorn"),
               _("Probably the most popular methuselah, the accorn lives "
                 "for 5206 (!) generations."),
               7, 3,
               ".*....."
               "...*..."
               "**..***" ),
    LifePattern(
               _("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,
               "...***......."
               "......*......"
               "......*......"
               "......*.....*"
               ".....***....*"
               "....*...*...*"
               ".****...****."
               "*...*...*...."
               "*....***....."
               "*.....*......"
               "......*......"
               "......*......"
               ".......***..." ),
    LifePattern(
               _("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,
               ".........................*.........."
               "......................****.........."
               ".............*.......****..........."
               "............*.*......*..*.........**"
               "...........*...**....****.........**"
               "**.........*...**.....****.........."
               "**.........*...**........*.........."
               "............*.*....................."
               ".............*......................" ),
    LifePattern(
               _("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,
               "...*."
               "....*"
               "*...*"
               ".****"
               "....."
               "....."
               "....."
               "*...."
               ".**.."
               "..*.."
               "..*.."
               ".*..."
               "....."
               "....."
               "...*."
               "....*"
               "*...*"
               ".****" ),
    LifePattern(
               _("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
f6bcfd97	26	const LifePattern g_patterns[] =
087e4f4a	27	{
f6bcfd97 BP	28	LifePattern(
f6bcfd97 BP	29	_("Glider"),
087e4f4a GRG	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	"***"),
f6bcfd97 BP	37	LifePattern(
f6bcfd97 BP	38	_("Heavyweight spaceship"),
087e4f4a GRG	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	".******"),
f6bcfd97 BP	49	LifePattern(
f6bcfd97 BP	50	_("Eater"),
087e4f4a GRG	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	"........**" ),
f6bcfd97 BP	66	LifePattern(
f6bcfd97 BP	67	_("Dice shaker"),
087e4f4a GRG	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	"..." ),
f6bcfd97 BP	78	LifePattern(
f6bcfd97 BP	79	_("Hertz oscillator"),
087e4f4a GRG	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	".......**....." ),
f6bcfd97 BP	96	LifePattern(
f6bcfd97 BP	97	_("Phoenix"),
087e4f4a	98	_("A phoenix is a pattern whose cells all die in every "
c75ea1a3	99	"generation, and yet lives forever. For example, this is "
087e4f4a GRG	100	"a phoenix with period two."),
	101	8, 8,
	102	"....*..."
	103	"......"
	104	"......*."
	105	"**......"
	106	"......**"
	107	".*......"
	108	"......"
	109	"...*...." ),
f6bcfd97 BP	110	LifePattern(
f6bcfd97 BP	111	_("R-pentomino"),
087e4f4a GRG	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	"**."
e0a40292	120	".*." ),
f6bcfd97 BP	121	LifePattern(
f6bcfd97 BP	122	_("Thunderbird"),
087e4f4a GRG	123	_("The thunderbird is another popular methuselah, which "
087e4f4a GRG	124	"doesn't stabilize until the 243th generation. Note that "
c75ea1a3	125	"because the initial configuration is symmetrical with "
087e4f4a	126	"respect to the vertical axis, all generations must be "
c75ea1a3	127	"symmetrical as well."),
087e4f4a GRG	128	3, 5,
	129	"***"
	130	"..."
	131	".*."
	132	".*."
e0a40292	133	".*." ),
f6bcfd97 BP	134	LifePattern(
f6bcfd97 BP	135	_("Accorn"),
087e4f4a	136	_("Probably the most popular methuselah, the accorn lives "
e0a40292	137	"for 5206 (!) generations."),
087e4f4a GRG	138	7, 3,
	139	".*....."
	140	"...*..."
e0a40292	141	"..*" ),
f6bcfd97 BP	142	LifePattern(
f6bcfd97 BP	143	_("Galaxy"),
087e4f4a GRG	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	".....**...."
2480be69 GRG	153	"..........*"
	154	".**...**."
	155	"......*...."
087e4f4a GRG	156	"....**....."
	157	"..........."
	158	"......*......"
	159	"......*......"
e0a40292	160	".......***..." ),
f6bcfd97 BP	161	LifePattern(
f6bcfd97 BP	162	_("Glider gun"),
e0a40292 GRG	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	".........................*.........."
29b07a38 GRG	170	"......................****.........."
29b07a38 GRG	171	"....................***..........."
e0a40292 GRG	172	"..............................**"
	173	"..................*........."
	174	"*.................**.........."
	175	"*............*.................."
	176	".................................."
	177	".............*......................" ),
f6bcfd97 BP	178	LifePattern(
f6bcfd97 BP	179	_("Puffer train"),
e0a40292 GRG	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	".****" ),
f6bcfd97 BP	206	LifePattern(
f6bcfd97 BP	207	_("Max"),
e0a40292 GRG	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	"..........................." )
087e4f4a	269	};