Life within Life

For general discussion about Conway's Game of Life.
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mingularity
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Life within Life

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Where can I download the OTCA metapixel-based Life within Life pattern?
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So I figured out how to do this thanks to Mike Stay on YouTube - highlight a region and click the metafier.py script. When I did this I crashed Golly. http://git.io/eEyehQ
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Oh, yes, Python is completely useless for metafying large patterns. The way I built meta-metacells (for example) was by writing a C++ program specially designed to perform operations on quadtrees instead of cell lists.
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