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After you have completed designing your pattern, press '''START'''. Watch your design grow and develop. See what interesting patterns you can make. As you gain more and more experience, you will probably develop patterns from which you can predict the outcome. It's exciting to see the designs and colors grow and change.
As in the Select Group section, you can stop the pattern at the end of any generation by pressing '''STOP''' and holding the key until you hear the "beep." The pattern will stop at the end of the generation in progress, and you can alter the pattern on the screen by adding to it or erasing squares. When you are ready to start again, press '''START'''. (''Note:'' Although you can add colors to the design or erase colors from the screen as described above, the '''CHG''' key is not available for use in "Color Life." Therefore, you cannot change all cells of one color to another color by using the '''CHG''' key.)
To leave this "Color Life" activity, press '''ENTER'''. This returns you to the "Color Life" selection list. From this screen press '''0''' (zero), or press '''ENTER''' again to see the selection list for the PICTURES activities. For now, let's press '''ENTER''' and try some of the other activities in PICTURES.
===="Mosaic"====
From the PICTURES selection list press '''2''' for "Mosaic." In this activity, you can create your own mosaic pictures. Your pen (cursor) has three modes in "Mosaic:"
:□ "Write" mode. When you see this symbol, the pen is "down" on the canvas. A colored square appears where the cursor is positioned.
:◊ "Move" mode. In this mode, you can move the cursor to another position on the canvas without placing a color on the canvas.
:+ "Erase" mode. When you see this symbol, the cursor will erase the colored square in that position.
To change the mode of the cursor, simply press the PEN key until you see the symbol that represents the mode you want.
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