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 LifeShape g_shapes[] =
  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 "
  93                  "generation, and yet lives forever. For example, this is "
  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                "**."
 113                ".*." ),
 114     LifeShape( _("Thunderbird"),
 115                _("The thunderbird is another popular methuselah, which "
 116                  "doesn't stabilize until the 243th generation. Note that "
 117                  "because the initial configuration is symmetrical with "
 118                  "respect to the vertical axis, all generations must be "
 119                  "symmetrical as well."),
 120                3, 5,
 121                "***"
 122                "..."
 123                ".*."
 124                ".*."
 125                ".*." ),
 126     LifeShape( _("Accorn"),
 127                _("Probably the most popular methuselah, the accorn lives "
 128                  "for 5206 (!) generations."),
 129                7, 3,
 130                ".*....."
 131                "...*..."
 132                "**..***" ),
 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                ".....***....*"
 143                "....*...*...*"
 144                ".****...****."
 145                "*...*...*...."
 146                "*....***....."
 147                "*.....*......"
 148                "......*......"
 149                "......*......"
 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                ".....................*.*....." )
 256 };