Pattern of the Year 2017 -- votes

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Pattern of the Year 2017 -- votes

Post by calcyman » January 24th, 2018, 4:37 am

We've had an extremely fruitful year, with 24 impressive patterns nominated for the contest. This is going to be particularly enjoyable to watch.
  • #01 Record setting garden of eden (by Steven Eker): an orphan with 45 live cells and 43 dead cells, the fewest total number of specified cells among all known orphans.
  • #02 Fixed-length tail for a lightspeed bubble of arbitrary width in the 'stripes' agar (by wildmyron): Gabriel Nivasch showed that arbitrary-width lightspeed bubbles in the stripes agar are supportable, requiring a fixed-length head and variable-length tail. It was hitherto an open problem to replace the variable-length tail with a fixed-length counterpart.
  • #03 Three-glider synthesis of a switch engine (by Luka Okanishi): It was previously believed that 4 gliders were necessary and sufficient to synthesise a switch-engine.
  • #04 Tanner's p46 (by Tanner Jacobi): a new sparky p46 oscillator that various guns can be made
  • #05 gliderless unit cell (by Naszvadi): a cellular automata polyglot (pattern which runs in a range of rules) based on p46 technology, establishing Turing-completeness of B3[8]/S23[8] provided infinite patterns are permitted.
  • #06 Much smaller spiral-growth pattern (by Dave Greene and slmake): a tightly-coiled loop of data reflected in a double-spiral of snarks instructs a construction arm to encircle the construction indefinitely, gradually constructing an unbounded spiral of further snarks.
  • #07 Hydra (by Oscar Cunningham, Dave Greene and slmake): a single-channel quadratic-growth pattern which constructs an intricate mesh of splitting construction heads in all directions. Some well-positioned eaters prevent this behemoth from cannibalising itself. It uses similar technology to Dave's earlier triple wickstretcher (#25), but is more complex owing to the necessity of splitting signals.
  • #08 New Demonoid and Orthogonoid spaceships (by Dave Greene and slmake): Geminoid variants which travel diagonally and orthogonally, respectively, showcasing interesting developments such as MWSS-based signalling and syringe syntheses.
  • #09 Stable pulse-dividers (by Tanner Jacobi): the Snark and semi-snark have been joined by new exciting tremi-snarks, quadri-snarks, and semi-cenarks, which are particularly helpful for optimising glider and spaceship guns.
  • #10 Sparse Cordership (by David Bell): all previously-known Corderships required interactions between two or more adjacent switch-engines. This design, on the other hand, allows the individual switch-engines to be separated by arbitrary distances, relying instead on long-range interactions mediated by gliders and stable objects.
  • #11 Synthesis of 25P3H1V0.2, and reductions of many other small spaceships (by Martin Grant, Chris Cain, 2718281828, gmc_nxtman, et al.)
  • #12 The first c/6 orthogonal puffers (by Nico Brown and Matthias Merzenich): messy albeit elegant puffers where gliders collide with large sparky spaceships in perpetuity.
  • #13 The first 3c/7 orthogonal puffer (by Luka Okanishi): as above, but exclusively using 3c/7 spaghetti monsters (the only known spaceship of its velocity). Owing to its faster-than-c/4 speed, a c/2 spaceship is necessary to catch up with the front of the engine to continue the reaction.
  • #14 The efficient 16-bit still life synthesis project (credits here): all still-lifes of 16 or fewer cells can be constructed at a cost of <= 1 glider per cell.
  • #15 The smallest known (tied with previous record) period-7 oscillator (by "Bullet51"): self-explanatory.
  • #16 the second elementary c/7 orthogonal spaceship (by Matthias Merzenich and zfind): the narrowest odd-symmetric c/7 spaceship.
  • #17 Runny nose (by 83bismuth38): a p3 oscillator which showed an unexpected gap in lists of small objects.
  • #18 2-engine cordership (by Aidan Pierce): a successful refutation of the common belief that 3 engines are required to build a Cordership.
  • #19 Completed Quest for Tetris challenge (by PhiNotPi, El'endia Starman, K Zhang, Muddyfish, Kritixi Lithos, Mego, Quartata, et al.): a game of Tetris simulated on a digital computer built out of logic gates formed from Brice Due's metacells.
  • #20 Synthesis of N-bit still lifes in 38 to 39 gliders (by Tanner Jacobi, Adam P. Goucher, and Chris Cain): syntheses of N-bit still lifes for all sufficiently large natural numbers N, using a bounded number of gliders (38 or 39, depending on the parity of N).
  • #21 p148 B29 gun (by Luka Okanishi, Dave Greene, and Adam P. Goucher): a compact gun for a c/4 diagonal spaceship.
  • #22 Several new stable signal converters (by Dave Greene and Goldtiger997)
  • #23 Cumulative sum generator (by gameoflifeboy):
  • #24 Life object having a bounded population with an unknown fate (by David Bell): a pattern which either becomes stable, oscillatory, or aperiodic, depending on the behaviour of 7 under the generalised Collatz iteration which maps a positive integer N to 5N+1 (if N odd) or N/2 (if N even).
  • #25 triple wickstretcher (by Dave Greene): a single-channel glider loop which extends zigzags of Snarks
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By popular demand, the voting convention of this year's contest will mirror Alexey's system from 2016.

Vote only for the patterns you like, and give each of them 1, 2, or 3 stars depending on how much you like them. You can vote for your own patterns if you want.

The voting will end on 14th Feburary, at midnight UTC.
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Re: Pattern of the Year 2017 -- votes

Post by Macbi » January 24th, 2018, 5:27 am

I think you're missing Dave Greene's triple wickstretcher, which he nominated himself, unless you meant to merge it with Hydra (good name by the way).

EDIT: Whilst we're naming single channel patterns, how about Cerberus and Charybdis?
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Re: Pattern of the Year 2017 -- votes

Post by calcyman » January 24th, 2018, 5:48 am

Macbi wrote:I think you're missing Dave Greene's triple wickstretcher, which he nominated himself, unless you meant to merge it with Hydra (good name by the way).
Thanks! I did merge them because they're quite similar in nature, but now I've separated the triple wickstretcher into #25. It is, after all, an independent discovery.

Note that there's still 36 hours before nominations close on Burns' Night, so this list isn't finalised (and therefore voting doesn't commence until then).
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Re: Pattern of the Year 2017 -- votes

Post by dani » January 24th, 2018, 8:57 pm

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Post by 77topaz » January 24th, 2018, 9:13 pm

danny wrote:My vote is misinformed and igorant but I will provide some votes.

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Did you not read the post directly above which says that voting won't commence for another day because the list isn't finalised yet? :roll:
calcyman wrote:Note that there's still 36 hours before nominations close on Burns' Night, so this list isn't finalised (and therefore voting doesn't commence until then).

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Re: Pattern of the Year 2017 -- votes

Post by 77topaz » January 26th, 2018, 5:56 am

Now, however, the voting should be open, right?

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Re: Pattern of the Year 2017 -- votes

Post by calcyman » January 26th, 2018, 8:17 am

77topaz wrote:Now, however, the voting should be open, right?
Indeed.
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Re: Pattern of the Year 2017 -- votes

Post by Rhombic » January 26th, 2018, 8:25 am

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Post by dani » January 28th, 2018, 9:39 pm

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