Download the Script
Here you may download the script that allows you to contribute to the Online Life-Like CA Soup Search. If you have run Python scripts in Golly before, then simply download the following file and extract it into your Golly Python scripts folder. If you are unfamiliar with Golly or how to run Python scripts in Golly, follow the step-by-step instructions below.
Step 1: Download and install Golly
Golly is a free, cross-platform program for exploring Conway's Game of Life and similar cellular automata, and it is required in order to run the script that lets you contribute to the Online Life-Like CA Soup Search. The Golly homepage is located at the following URL (please download the newest version of Golly):
http://golly.sourceforge.net
Step 2: Download and install Python
Python is a free scripting language that works with Golly to let it perform all sorts of tasks that aren't built into Golly itself. Please make sure that you install either Python 2.6.0 or 2.6.2, not Python 3.x, as Golly does not currently fully support Python 3. You may download Python from the following URL:
http://www.python.org/download
Step 3: Download the soup search script
Download the soup_search.zip file that is located at the top of this page. It must be extracted in your Golly Python scripts directory. To find that directory, go to the directory that you installed Golly in, then open the "Scripts" subdirectory, and then the "Python" subdirectory. Extract the contents of soup_search.zip into this directory.
Step 4: Open Golly and run the script
Upon opening Golly, the screen will look roughly like this:
To bring up the available scripts in the left toolbar, click on the button circled in red in the screenshot above. There should be a script named "soup_search.py" (if there isn't a script with that name, then you probably opened Golly before you installed the script; just close and re-open Golly). Click on that script -- you will be prompted for your name and your e-mail address, both of which are optional. After entering (or omitting) that information, the script will begin to run!
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