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Golly
	Screenshot of Golly
Initial release	July 2005; 18 years ago
Stable release	v4.2 / August 2022; 1 year ago
Preview release	v4.3b1 / 16 March 2024; 24 days ago
Repository	sourceforge.net/projects/golly/
Written in	C++ (wxWidgets)
Operating system	Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Windows, OS X, iOS, Android
License	GNU GPLv2
Website	golly.sourceforge.net

Golly is a tool for the simulation of cellular automata. It is free open-source software written by Andrew Trevorrow and Tomas Rokicki;^[4] it can be scripted using Lua^[1] or Python. It includes a hashlife algorithm that can simulate the behavior of very large structured or repetitive patterns such as Paul Rendell's Life universal Turing machine,^[5] and that is fast enough to simulate some patterns for 2³² or more time units.^[6] It also includes a large library of predefined patterns in Conway's Game of Life and other rules.^[7]

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^ ^a ^b ^c "Golly Help: Changes". golly.sourceforge.net. Retrieved 2016-10-02.
^ Trevorrow, Andrew. "Golly 4.3b1". ConwayLife.com. Retrieved 3 April 2024.
^ "Golly download". sourceforge.net. Retrieved 2017-07-26.
^ Delahaye, Jean-Paul (April 2009), "Le royaume du Jeu de la vie" (PDF), Pour la Science (in French): 86–91.
^ Rendell, P. (2011), "A universal Turing machine in Conway's Game of Life", 2011 International Conference on High Performance Computing and Simulation (HPCS) (PDF), pp. 764–772, doi:10.1109/HPCSim.2011.5999906, S2CID 35957181, archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-03-11, retrieved 2012-12-09
^ Gotts, Nicholas M. (2009), "Ramifying feedback networks, cross-scale interactions, and emergent quasi individuals in Conway's Game of Life" (PDF), Artificial Life, 15 (3): 351–375, doi:10.1162/artl.2009.Gotts.009, PMID 19254180, S2CID 16527203.
^ Eppstein, David (2010), "Growth and Decay in Life-Like Cellular Automata", in Andrew Adamatzky (ed.), Game of Life Cellular Automata, Springer, pp. 71–97, arXiv:0911.2890, Bibcode:2010golc.book...71E, doi:10.1007/978-1-84996-217-9_6, ISBN 9781849962179, S2CID 37007937

External links edit

Official website

[changes-1] "Golly Help: Changes". golly.sourceforge.net. Retrieved 2016-10-02.

[2] Trevorrow, Andrew. "Golly 4.3b1". ConwayLife.com. Retrieved 3 April 2024.

[3] "Golly download". sourceforge.net. Retrieved 2017-07-26.

[4] Delahaye, Jean-Paul (April 2009), "Le royaume du Jeu de la vie" (PDF), Pour la Science (in French): 86–91.

[5] Rendell, P. (2011), "A universal Turing machine in Conway's Game of Life", 2011 International Conference on High Performance Computing and Simulation (HPCS) (PDF), pp. 764–772, doi:10.1109/HPCSim.2011.5999906, S2CID 35957181, archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-03-11, retrieved 2012-12-09

[6] Gotts, Nicholas M. (2009), "Ramifying feedback networks, cross-scale interactions, and emergent quasi individuals in Conway's Game of Life" (PDF), Artificial Life, 15 (3): 351–375, doi:10.1162/artl.2009.Gotts.009, PMID 19254180, S2CID 16527203.

[7] Eppstein, David (2010), "Growth and Decay in Life-Like Cellular Automata", in Andrew Adamatzky (ed.), Game of Life Cellular Automata, Springer, pp. 71–97, arXiv:0911.2890, Bibcode:2010golc.book...71E, doi:10.1007/978-1-84996-217-9_6, ISBN 9781849962179, S2CID 37007937

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Screenshot of Golly
Initial release	July 2005; 18 years ago (2005-07)^[1]

Stable release	v4.2 / August 2022; 1 year ago (2022-08)^[1]
Preview release	v4.3b1 / 16 March 2024; 24 days ago (2024-03-16)^[2]

Repository	sourceforge.net/projects/golly/
Written in	C++ (wxWidgets)
Operating system	Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Windows, OS X, iOS, Android
License	GNU GPLv2^[3]
Website	golly.sourceforge.net

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