Golly: how an open source project took over the study of cellular automata.

Presentation by Tony Smith at OSDC, Melbourne, Australia, November 2010.

*Animations used in slides but represented by key frames in HTML and PDF versions:

Slide	Link to animation
1	Golly Ticker
1	Conway Life common
2	Gosper‘s glider gun
4	Fredkin‘s reproducing CA
7	Pulsar in a Tube
14	Generations 345/3/6 common
15	Hanu (as first seen in The Wild)
16	First 100 at 100,000 iterations
20	Life in a Tube: Perl Harbour
20	2 of 7 (L to R): Pulsar (again)
20	3: Pentadecathalon
20	4: Square Band
20	5: Blinker Gobblers
20	6: Ice Breaker
20	7 of 7: Slow Randomiser
23	In my first RuleTree rule
24	2 of 3 (top): track to p8 trail
24	3 of 3: track to shifted track
28	Early once off find in The Wild

Zip files opened in Golly during the presentation:

Download zip from	Pattern demonstrated
Life in a Tube	pentadecathalon
Generations 3458_37_4	sawfish