I have to admit that I am short of time at the moment, too. I will think about it when I have more time again (and also check out and learn from your neural network patch).

life3.0 2.zip

Hello, @Jona, I think this update allows you to do what you wanted to do: once you've initalised the screen, you can stop the metro, and put as many shapes as you want before putting it back on. Also, you can select some shapes you load by using the keyboard (letters a,z,e,r) .
I'm also working on an additionnal output that would emit the state of the selected point of the screen. All of this is work in progress, no clean version.

@Hugo-Legrand thats very nice. it could be interesting to map sound and change the presets every xth iteration?

mmm. This is an interesting idea. I'm searing something.