Golly game of life in a gif

Question

I have a talk in a few days. I have to make a reference to the cellular atomata. I would like to show a little gif in the slideshow where the evolution of cellular automata is shown, so my question is:How can I convert a pattern and the evolution created with golly game of life to a animated gif?

Trustless

Answer 1

Golly 2.3 on ubuntu shipped with a nice Perl script especially for making gifs. You can access scripts by hitting the show/hide scripts button on the left panel. The script is called "giffer" and you use it by simply making a selection, starting the script, and then filling in the requested parameters.

BAM! giffed.

Ankle

Current parameters (2024 Aug): Number of frames and Pause time between frames (centisecs) – Walleyed

Answer 2

Nowadays, you can download GIFs from simulations in the ConwayLife Lounge Discord.

Here are the steps:

1. Paste the Run Length Encoded text (RLE)
2. Press Enter
3. Type "!sim XX", where XX is the number of frames the GIF should be
4. Once the GIF is generated, click on it
5. The image will open in Discord's image viewer
6. You can right click the image to see save options

The file command specification can be found by typing "!help sim" in the appropriate Discord channel, currently under "Sandbox", #bots-and-mute-this

Walleyed

Answer 3

You can take multiple screenshots of the animation, then import it as a sequence into After Effects, and export as animated gif.

Inquisitor