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30 lines
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Golly is an open source, cross-platform application for
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exploring Conway's Game of Life and other cellular automata.
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Golly's key features:
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- Supports bounded and unbounded universes, with cells of
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up to 256 states.
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- Supports multiple algorithms, including Bill Gosper's
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super fast hashlife algorithm.
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- Many different types of CA are included: John von Neumann's
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29-state CA, Wolfram's 1D rules, WireWorld, Generations,
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Langton's Loops, Paterson's Worms, etc.
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- The RuleTable and RuleTree algorithms let you plug in new
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rules.
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- Responsive even while generating or garbage collecting.
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- Reads RLE, macrocell, Life 1.05/1.06, dblife, and MCell
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files.
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- Can also read common graphic formats: BMP, PNG, GIF, TIFF.
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- Can extract patterns, rules and scripts from zip files.
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- Can download patterns, rules and scripts from online archives.
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- Includes a state-of-the-art pattern collection.
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- Can paste in patterns from the clipboard.
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- Unlimited undo/redo.
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- Configurable keyboard shortcuts.
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- Auto fit option keeps patterns sized to the window.
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- Full screen option (no menu/status/tool/scroll bars).
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- Supports multiple layers, including cloned layers.
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- HTML-based help with an integrated Life Lexicon.
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- Scriptable via Perl or Python.
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