+/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
+// 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
+/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
+
+// --------------------------------------------------------------------------
+// sample configurations
+// --------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+/* Format:
+ *
+ * Name,
+ * Description,
+ * Width, Height,
+ * Data, ('*' = alive, '.' = dead)
+ * Field width, Field height, (optional, defaults to 20 x 20)
+ * Wraparound (optional, defaults to TRUE)
+ *
+ */
+
+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 "
+ "generatio, 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,
+ ".**"
+ "**."
+ ".*.",
+ 80, 80, FALSE ),
+ LifeShape( _("Thunderbird"),
+ _("The thunderbird is another popular methuselah, which "
+ "doesn't stabilize until the 243th generation. Note that "
+ "because the initial configuration is simmetrical with "
+ "respect to the vertical axis, all generations must be "
+ "simmetrical as well."),
+ 3, 5,
+ "***"
+ "..."
+ ".*."
+ ".*."
+ ".*.",
+ 60, 60, FALSE ),
+ LifeShape( _("Accorn"),
+ _("Probably the most popular methuselah, the accorn lives "
+ "for 5206 (!) generations. To see it in action, a very "
+ "large game field is needed."),
+ 7, 3,
+ ".*....."
+ "...*..."
+ "**..***",
+ 150, 150, FALSE ),
+ 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,
+ "...***......."
+ "......*......"
+ "......*......"
+ "......*.....*"
+ ".....***....*"
+ "....* *...*"
+ ".**** ****."
+ "*...* *...."
+ "*....***....."
+ "*.....*......"
+ "......*......"
+ "......*......"
+ ".......***...",
+ 80, 80, FALSE )
+};