"Life" forms that can be read by Life3.exe
Sat Feb 14, 2004

Filename      Size  Description
========      ====  ===========
TUMBLER  LIF    51  Tumbler
TRAFLITE LIF    18  Traffic Lights
RPENT    LIF    11  R-Pentomino
PULSAR   LIF   171  Pulsar
PREHFARM LIF   123  Eventually creates a "Honey Farm" of 4 "Beehives"
P_HONFRM LIF    18  Eventually creates a "Honey Farm" of 4 "Beehives"
MUCKMAKE LIF   443  Eventually ends up in "lumps of muck", which are stable
LSHAPE   LIF 2,306  An L-shape - 48 cells high
GLIDER   LIF    11  Glider
ERASOR   LIF 1,026  Empty space marked off by four corners - actually two would do
EATER    LIF    18  Eater - eats a Glider
ECOLOGIS LIF   326  Ecologist - a flyer that cleans up its debris
PUFFERTR LIF   326  Puffer Train - requires an enormously scaleable Life field
 to see in its entirety, maybe a field on the order of 10,000 cells on a side;
 I'm not sure. After it's been running for sufficiently long, it has a
 triangular tip, a long column and a cloud of "exhaust" at its rear end - in a
 *very* large-scale view! It looks quite like an erect penis. However, in a
 smaller Life field, you can see it fly and leave bits of debris behind.

SPACSHMW LIF    38  Space ship - "Medium weight"
SPACSHIP LIF    27  Space ship - "Light weight"
BHEPTOMI LIF    27  B-Heptomino
SPACSHHW LIF    51  Space ship - "Heavy weight"
SPACRAKE LIF   486  Space Rake - a flying machine that creates a "rake" of Gliders
T-TETROM LIF    11  T-Tetromino - a portion of a flying machine
FLYINGMA LIF    83  A flying machine
MFMPC1   LIF    27  A component of a modified flying machine - turns into a
 "Medium weight" Space ship.
MODFLYMA LIF   486  A modified flying machine that leaves behind "lumps of muck"
MODFLYM2 LIF   402  A modified flying machine with components unneeded for its
  creation removed -  leaves behind "lumps of muck"
PIHEPTOM LIF    11  Pi-Heptomino - an attempt at a flying machine that is
  quickly swallowed by its own "exhaust"


Notice how if you subtract 2 from a file size above and then take the square
root, you get the size on a side of the square that was needed to contain the
Life form, which is the size of its height or width, whichever is greater (or
the size of either if they are the same)

This is not a very compressed format, obviously, requiring one byte per Life
cell. You can also see these file sizes in "Winzip" if you view the column of
"Unpacked" file sizes.

Note that you can build up composite Life patterns by reading in Life forms
repeatedly rather than reentering them cell-by-cell.

Pressing Alt-Enter toggles an MS-DOS window between full-screen and "restored"
status; Continuous Run (F2) runs more smoothly in full-screen, but you can
see the filenames you want elsewhere on your PC screen if you use a "restored"
DOS window.
