Life 1.05

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Revision as of 12:16, 25 May 2020

File Format
Name Life 1.05
Ontology
Extension(s) .lif[1][2], .life[2]
Released Early 1990s?

Life 1.05 is a format for storing patterns of cellular automata. It seems to have originated as the native format of version 1.05 of Alan Hensel's program "Life"[3], presumably some time in the early 1990s[4]. In this capacity, it was followed by Life 1.06.

Contents

Identification

Life 1.05 files begin with ASCII #Life 1.05.[5]

Software

Specifications

Sample Files

Links

See Also

References

  1. http://www.mindspring.com/~alanh/lifep.zip
  2. 2.0 2.1 https://www.conwaylife.com/wiki/Life_1.05
  3. /http://www.radicaleye.com/lifepage/#myres; the format is referred to "Hensel's format", and the the link to Hensel's software gives a program called "LIFE 1.06", aligning with Life 1.06
  4. Dates of files in the download of Hensel's program
  5. https://www.conwaylife.com/wiki/Life_1.05
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