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,
  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 };