Plaintext (cellular automata)

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File Format
Name Plaintext (cellular automata)
Ontology
Extension(s) .cells[1]
Released 2001[2]-2004[3]
For "plaintext" in the more widely-used sense, see Plain text.

"Plaintext" is a format for storing patterns of cellular automata. Despite the name, it is a structured, albeit simple and text-based, format. It was introduced by Edward Martin's implementation of the Game of Life.[1] It is very similar to the more widely-supported Life 1.05, and presumably Plaintext files could be read after (trivial) conversion to that format.

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Identification

Plaintext files will begin with ASCII !Name:[1].

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References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 https://www.conwaylife.com/wiki/Plaintext
  2. Appearance of the offline version, https://web.archive.org/web/20020802090220/http://www.bitstorm.org/gameoflife/
  3. Copyright dates of the current version at https://bitstorm.org/gameoflife/code/org/bitstorm/gameoflife/StandaloneGameOfLife.html
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