demos/life/samples.inc

   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,
  20  * Width, Height,
  21  * Data,                        ('*' = alive, '.' = dead)
  22  * Field width, Field height,   (optional, defaults to 20 x 20)
  23  * Wraparound                   (optional, defaults to TRUE)
  24  *
  25  */
  26
  27 LifeShape g_shapes[] =
  28 {
  29     LifeShape( _("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     LifeShape( _("Heavyweight spaceship"),
  38                _("The glider is just the smaller of the spaceships; this "
  39                  "one, known as the heavyweight spaceship or 'big fish', "
  40                  "is the largest spaceship which can travel alone without "
  41                  "destroying itself. Larger ones can only travel safely "
  42                  "if they are supported by smaller spaceships."),
  43                7, 4,
  44                ".....*."
  45                "......*"
  46                "*.....*"
  47                ".******"),
  48     LifeShape( _("Eater"),
  49                _("An eater is any still life that can repair itself from "
  50                  "some attacks. This one (bottom right), also known as "
  51                  "'fishhook', eats gliders and fishes (spaceships) provided "
  52                  "that they approach in a certain angle."),
  53                10, 10,
  54                ".*........"
  55                "..*......."
  56                "***......."
  57                ".........."
  58                ".........."
  59                ".........."
  60                "......**.."
  61                "......*.*."
  62                "........*."
  63                "........**" ),
  64     LifeShape( _("Dice shaker"),
  65                _("Oscillators have been extensively explored in Life!. "
  66                  "The dice shaker turns around each seven tics; thus, it "
  67                  "is an oscillator with a period of fourteen."),
  68                7, 6,
  69                ".**.**."
  70                ".**.**."
  71                "..*.*.."
  72                "*.*.*.*"
  73                "*.*.*.*"
  74                "**...**" ),
  75     LifeShape( _("Hertz oscillator"),
  76                _("The Hertz oscillator is a good example of a set of life "
  77                  "patterns known as 'billiard tables'. A billiard table is "
  78                  "an oscillator which is built inside a stable border. In "
  79                  "particular, this one has a period of eight."),
  80                14, 11,
  81                ".....**......."
  82                ".....**......."
  83                ".............."
  84                "**...****...**"
  85                "*.*.*....*.*.*"
  86                "..*.**...*.*.."
  87                "*.*.*....*.*.*"
  88                "**...****...**"
  89                ".............."
  90                ".......**....."
  91                ".......**....." ),
  92     LifeShape( _("Phoenix"),
  93                _("A phoenix is a pattern whose cells all die in every "
  94                  "generation, and yet lives forever. For example, this is "
  95                  "a phoenix with period two."),
  96                8, 8,
  97                "....*..."
  98                "..*.*..."
  99                "......*."
 100                "**......"
 101                "......**"
 102                ".*......"
 103                "...*.*.."
 104                "...*...." ),
 105     LifeShape( _("R-pentomino"),
 106                _("The R-pentomino is a methuselah - a life form which "
 107                  "lives for hundreds of generations without stabilizing "
 108                  "or dying. In particular, the R-Pentomino requires more "
 109                  "than one thousand tics to reach a stable (periodic) "
 110                  "state."),
 111                3, 3,
 112                ".**"
 113                "**."
 114                ".*.",
 115                80, 80, FALSE ),
 116     LifeShape( _("Thunderbird"),
 117                _("The thunderbird is another popular methuselah, which "
 118                  "doesn't stabilize until the 243th generation. Note that "
 119                  "because the initial configuration is symmetrical with "
 120                  "respect to the vertical axis, all generations must be "
 121                  "symmetrical as well."),
 122                3, 5,
 123                "***"
 124                "..."
 125                ".*."
 126                ".*."
 127                ".*.",
 128                60, 60, FALSE ),
 129     LifeShape( _("Accorn"),
 130                _("Probably the most popular methuselah, the accorn lives "
 131                  "for 5206 (!) generations. To see it in action, a very "
 132                  "large game field is needed."),
 133                7, 3,
 134                ".*....."
 135                "...*..."
 136                "**..***",
 137                150, 150, FALSE ),
 138     LifeShape( _("Galaxy"),
 139                _("One from my personal collection. It is really beautiful "
 140                  "to see this configuration expand and shrink periodically "
 141                  "for hundreds of tics before reaching a stable state."),
 142                13, 13,
 143                "...***......."
 144                "......*......"
 145                "......*......"
 146                "......*.....*"
 147                ".....***....*"
 148                "....*...*...*"
 149                ".****...****."
 150                "*...*...*...."
 151                "*....***....."
 152                "*.....*......"
 153                "......*......"
 154                "......*......"
 155                ".......***...",
 156                80, 80, FALSE )
 157 };