Tutorials/Software
A lot of people have been desperate to find new things in Life and be famous, which probably includes YOU. Because of this strange behavior of wanting to become famous, people have created software for searching for things... in Life. You too can use the software that other people have made. Many famous things have been found with software.
Types of Software
There are many types of Life software. Some search for exotic spaceships and others search for fancy oscillators. Some can do both and some more.
Spaceship Searchers
Some software search for spaceships. This is by far the most popular use for software, probably because cool new spaceships are scarce. There are a lot, some include:
- Gfind: This is a famous spaceship searcher/finder. It was created by David Eppstein with the programming language C (The most popular for Life software). It was with this that he found the Weekender. Paul Tooke, another guy, also used it to find the Dragon. It uses de Brujin Graphs to search for spaceships.
- Zfind: This is another famous piece of software, but was only made recently. It is a modification of gfind made by the user "zdr". Zdr used this to find the legendary Copperhead.
- WLS: A very easily used software that can find oscillators, spaceships, and other things. It is actually a Windows version of Lifesrc. It is commonly used by beginners to find still lifes and oscillators, though it can be very useful at some times.
Oscillator Finders
Other software search for oscillators. Though they are not as popular as spaceships, oscillators can be useful in creating various circuits.
- Dr: An oscillator search program that mainly searches for "Drifters" or billiard table oscillators. Written in C.
- Ofind: Another oscillator finder written in C. Easier to use than dr.