Web site: golly.sourceforge.io
Category: Games
Sub-Category: Simulation
Platform: Linux, OS X, Windows
License: GNU GPL
Interface: GUI
Wikipedia:
First release: 2005
Golly – an open source, cross-platform application for exploring Conway’s Game of Life and many other types of cellular automata.
Golly provides a graphical interface for viewing and editing cellular automata. It supports copy and paste, zoom, auto-fit, multiple layers, and viewing different areas of a pattern simultaneously in different areas of a window.
Features:
– Bounded or unbounded universes with up to 256 states.
– Fast generating algorithms.
– Reads a variety of common CA and graphical formats.
– Unlimited undo/redo for difficult pattern editing tasks.
– User-configurable keyboard shortcuts for menu items and scripts.
– Scriptable via Lua or Python.
– User-definable rules.
– State-of-the-art pattern collection.
The primary authors are Andrew Trevorrow and Tom Rokicki, with code contributions by Chris Rowett, Tim Hutton, Dave Greene, Jason Summers, Maks Verver, Robert Munafo, Brenton Bostick and Dongook Lee.
