wxWidgets/demos/life/samples.inc

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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 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 "
                 "generation, 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,
               ".**"
               "**."
               ".*." ),
    LifeShape( _("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,
               "***"
               "..."
               ".*."
               ".*."
               ".*." ),
    LifeShape( _("Accorn"),
               _("Probably the most popular methuselah, the accorn lives "
                 "for 5206 (!) generations."),
               7, 3,
               ".*....."
               "...*..."
               "**..***" ),
    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,
               "...***......."
               "......*......"
               "......*......"
               "......*.....*"
               ".....***....*"
               "....*...*...*"
               ".****...****."
               "*...*...*...."
               "*....***....."
               "*.....*......"
               "......*......"
               "......*......"
               ".......***..." ),
    LifeShape( _("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,
               ".........................*.........."
               "......................****....*....."
               ".............*.......****.....*....."
               "............*.*......*..*.........**"
               "...........*...**....****.........**"
               "**.........*...**.....****.........."
               "**.........*...**........*.........."
               "............*.*....................."
               ".............*......................" ),
    LifeShape( _("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,
               "...*."
               "....*"
               "*...*"
               ".****"
               "....."
               "....."
               "....."
               "*...."
               ".**.."
               "..*.."
               "..*.."
               ".*..."
               "....."
               "....."
               "...*."
               "....*"
               "*...*"
               ".****" ),
    LifeShape( _("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,
               ".....*.*....................."
               "....*..*....................."
               "...**........................"
               "..*.........................."
               ".****........................"
               "*....*......................."
               "*..*........................."
               "*..*........................."
               ".*.........***...***........."
               "..****.*..*..*...*..*........"
               "...*...*.....*...*..........."
               "....*........*...*..........."
               "....*.*......*...*..........."
               "............................."
               "...***.....***...***........."
               "...**.......*.....*.........."
               "...***......*******.........."
               "...........*.......*........."
               "....*.*...***********........"
               "...*..*..*............**....."
               "...*.....************...*...."
               "...*...*.............*...*..."
               "....*...************.....*..."
               ".....**............*..*..*..."
               "........***********...*.*...."
               ".........*.......*..........."
               "..........*******......***..."
               "..........*.....*.......**..."
               ".........***...***.....***..."
               "............................."
               "...........*...*......*.*...."
               "...........*...*........*...."
               "...........*...*.....*...*..."
               "........*..*...*..*..*.****.."
               ".........***...***.........*."
               ".........................*..*"
               ".........................*..*"
               ".......................*....*"
               "........................****."
               "..........................*.."
               "........................**..."
               ".....................*..*...."
               ".....................*.*....." )
};