Rule (Golly)

The "Rule" format is used by the program Golly to specify rules of cellular automata, as well as their visual appearance. It consists of one multi-section file, with the extension ".rule"; however, old (pre-2013^[2]) versions split up each of what became sections into their own files, with the extensions ".table", ".tree", ".colors", and ".icons"^[3], the most important being .table and .tree.

Identification

The current rule format starts with ASCII @RULE.

Software

• Golly

Specifications

• Description of the current (2020) format
• Description of the .table format

See Also

• MCell

References

1. ↑ Release of Golly (http://golly.sourceforge.net/Help/changes.html → "Initial version 0.1 released July 2005")
2. ↑ http://golly.sourceforge.net/Help/changes.html → "Changes in version 2.5 (released June 2013)"
3. ↑ http://golly.sourceforge.net/Help/formats.html#deprecated