Life 1.06
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The Life 1.06 file format is an ASCII format is just a list of coordinates of alive cells. Life 1.06 was designed to be easy and quick for a Life program to read and write, with the drawback being that the file size is very large for large patterns.
Description of format
The first line is a header line, indicating that the file is in Life 1.06 format:
#Life 1.06
Each subsequent line is of the form
x y
where x and y are the x and y coordinates of an alive cell, respectively. Each alive cell must be on its own line, and the x and y coordinates are separated by a space.
Examples
The following is a glider in Life 1.06 format:
#Life 1.06
0 -1
1 0
-1 1
0 1
1 1
External links
- Cellular automata file formats at Mirek's Cellebration