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Just realised the tutorial link is outdated. Here is the one that works now : https://chameleonscales.wordpress.com/cellular-automata-image-sequence-tutorial/
Also here's the gitlab repository which I seem to have forgotten to mention : https://gitlab.com/ChameleonScales/Golly-bmp-sequence/-/tree ...

Update :
reupload on Peertube (I deleted my Youtube account a while ago): https://peertube.mastodon.host/videos/w ... 6789b32e1e

Also please read this related post: https://conwaylife.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=2779

Update (please read the above previous post to which I updated the link and its content)

I learned the sad news and decided to re-uploaded my old proof of concept animation even though I'm not very proud of it, but I'd be glad to share my technique for this kind of artistic effect:
https://peertube ...

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Sounds like a tremendous task. Unfortunately now I have a bit of knowledge in python but none in Lua. Didn't even know this language existed before.

These sentences are not for the BMP-sequence script but for the image_import.py script that I also wanted to mention in this tutorial, because I find it very useful to build your own patterns from a 2D application. I just edited the sentence to try and make it clearer.

Andrew made a Lua version of the script and it seems we run into less problems with it :

-- Run the current pattern and save the selection as a separate .bmp file
-- for each generation. The files are saved in the same folder as the script.
-- Author: Andrew Trevorrow (andrew@trevorrow.com), March ...

Thank you very much for this advice and new script. I updated the tutorial.
Do you put all your scripts in one place (Sourceforge, Github or else) so that I could give a direct link to this new one (rather than copying it to my own github) ?

I just made a tutorial on how to make an image sequence of a cellular automaton which is aimed at everyone including people who don't know Golly :
https://caetano-veyssieres.com/cellular-automata-image-sequence-tutorial/
I'd like it to be bulletproof for troubleshooting so if you have any advice on ...

I made a tutorial on how to make cellular automata motion graphics (actually from any image sequence) with colorful and textured cubes using Blender:
https://peertube.mastodon.host/videos/w ... 63e54a99b8

There's more, as explained below.

Glad you solved your problem larrylazzardo.
For getting a higher resolution I personnally do it externally from a 2D application that supports animations (in my case Krita) and scale it up while disabling anti-aliasing (Box Filter in Krita)
Sorry I didn't reply before, I've been quite absent from ...

Saka wrote:Please do not share the finished product on vimeo

Here, I just uploaded the old one on Youtube :
https://youtu.be/gyYWSEFM7Dg

Thanks, you have a lot of ideas !
I know I'm not even scratching the surface of the possibilities with 3D GoL. In my experiments, I saw amazing fractal shapes, futuristic buildings and trees. There's a lot to do. But I want to render it with a good quality. And using cubes takes a lot of computer ...

Hi,
here's a video I made :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiEQg-SHY1g

Please tell me what you think with honesty and details.

Thanks a lot !

(read the video description for more details)

Thanks ! flipper77's script is what I was looking for. Sorry I wasn't very clear on the fact that it has to calculate the sum in multiple steps.

Hi,
I need a way to calculate the sum of the populations from one step to another, which means the total number of cells that have lived in that time.
I have no Python knowledge so can anyone help me ?

Paste the code in a text file and replace the .txt extension by a .py extension (name the file whatever you want).
Then put the file in Golly's python scripts directory and you'll find it inside Golly, in the scripts panel.

How to use it :
- Select an area
- Run the script
- If it asks for the Perl ...

The other Perl scripts work perfectly, but on Active State, I only found ActivePerl 5.16 which doesn't work on Golly, so I downloaded ActivePerl 5.10 on Softonic

Andrew answered my problem in this topic :
http://www.conwaylife.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=1342

Here's the script: # Run the current pattern and save the selection as a separate .bmp file
# for each generation. The files are saved in the same folder as the script.
# Author: Andrew Trevorrow ...

YES !!
Thanks a lot !
Did you create it after my question or did it already exist ? because I was searching for this script for many days !

How can I make a python script repeat itself?

The purpose is to use the "save bmp" python script, but by adding some command line, each time it repeats itself, it also goes to the next generation so that it would create a sequence of bmp with the animation of the pattern, and to stop it you would ...

I really don't know why, but when I use the Perl script "giffer", with any number of frames and any dimensions, it creates a gif with a corrupted picture and without animation.
For example I select about 50x50 cells with the select tool, click on the script and let "100 1 out.gif" when the window ...

Hi,
I've tried several ways to create an animation with Golly, like the Perl script "Giffer", but the exported gif doesn't work, or the Python script "save bmp", available at this page : http://www.conwaylife.com/scripts/
but it's no way to create an animation with hundreds or thousands of pictures ...