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+Golly is an open source, cross-platform application for
+exploring Conway's Game of Life and other cellular automata.
+
+Golly's key features:
+
+- Supports bounded and unbounded universes, with cells of
+ up to 256 states.
+- Supports multiple algorithms, including Bill Gosper's
+ super fast hashlife algorithm.
+- Many different types of CA are included: John von Neumann's
+ 29-state CA, Wolfram's 1D rules, WireWorld, Generations,
+ Langton's Loops, Paterson's Worms, etc.
+- The RuleTable and RuleTree algorithms let you plug in new
+ rules.
+- Responsive even while generating or garbage collecting.
+- Reads RLE, macrocell, Life 1.05/1.06, dblife, and MCell
+ files.
+- Can also read common graphic formats: BMP, PNG, GIF, TIFF.
+- Can extract patterns, rules and scripts from zip files.
+- Can download patterns, rules and scripts from online archives.
+- Includes a state-of-the-art pattern collection.
+- Can paste in patterns from the clipboard.
+- Unlimited undo/redo.
+- Configurable keyboard shortcuts.
+- Auto fit option keeps patterns sized to the window.
+- Full screen option (no menu/status/tool/scroll bars).
+- Supports multiple layers, including cloned layers.
+- HTML-based help with an integrated Life Lexicon.
+- Scriptable via Perl or Python.