Life 1.05

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] (an implementation of the game of Life created by mathematician John Horton Conway in 1970), presumably some time in the early 1990s^[4]. In this capacity, it was followed by Life 1.06.

Identification

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

Software

• Alan Hensel's "Life"
• Golly
• PLife

Specifications

• Unofficial specification

Sample Files

• Hensel's collection of patterns

Links

• LifeWiki: Life 1.05
• Patterns, Programs, and Links for Conway's Game of Life

See Also

• Life 1.06
• Macrocell
• MCell

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