User:Rowett

• Real name: Chris Rowett
• My location: United Kingdom

LifeViewer

Author of LifeViewer, a Javascript/HTML5 pattern viewer used here on the Wiki and on the Forums. A list of recent enhancements and fixes can be found in the Release Notes.

Golly

Contributions to Golly:

Golly 3.2 (unreleased)

• Rules
  • MAP rules now support base64 padding.
• Overlay
  • The paste command now supports multiple locations for batch draw.
• Bounded grids
  • Fixed a bug where patterns larger than bounded grids were not correctly clipped.
• Scripts
  • credits.lua - animated credits that can be launched from Help->Credits page.
  • 3D.lua - improved generating and rendering speed, added depth shading and canonical rule format.

Golly 3.0

• Rules
  • Added support for MAP rules to QuickLife, HashLife and Generations.
  • Added B0 emulation to isotropic non-totalistic rules.
  • Generations algorithm now supports Hex, Von Neumann and non-totalistic Moore neighborhoods.
  • QuickLife, HashLife and Generations now support much longer rule names.
  • Improved Larger than Life performance.
• GUI
  • Drawing cell borders when zoomed in >2x is now controlled by a View Preference: "Zoomed cells have borders".
  • Significantly improved pattern rendering speed when zoomed in.
  • Added support for OpenGL 1.x
• Overlay
  • Many improvements to the Overlay including the ability to play audio files.
• Script Commands
  • Added getinfo command to get the comments from the current pattern.
  • Added getpath command to get the pathname of the current pattern.
  • The getevent command can now detect the release of a key.
• Scripts
  • lifeviewer.lua - a Lua version of LifeViewer which runs in Golly using the Overlay (work in progress).
  • Co-wrote overlay-demo.lua which demonstrates most of the Overlay functions.
  • breakout.lua - a working game as a more sophisticated example of the Overlay functions.
  • browse-patterns.lua - allows you to browse through patterns in a folder (and optionally any sub-folders) manually or automatically.

Golly 2.8

• Rules
  • Added support for Alan Hensel's isotropic non-totalistic rules to QuickLife and HashLife.
• GUI
  • Some improvements to the OpenGL rendering.