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googleplex
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turtle tagalongs

Post by googleplex » January 30th, 2018, 11:09 am

I found some new turtle tagalongs:

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x = 14, y = 30, rule = B3/S23                                                                                                          
2b2o6b2o$3bo6bo$2b2o6b2o$3b3o2b3o$4b2o2b2o$6b2o2$5bo2bo$5b4o$4b                                                                        
2o2b2o$5b4o$o2bo6bo2bo$b2o8b2o$b2obo4bob2o$5b4o$6b2o$6b2o$5bo2bo                                                                       
$2bo8bo2$2b2o6b2o$4b6o$4b6o$3bobo2bobo$4bo4bo$3b2o4b2o$5b4o$bo4b                                                                       
2o4bo$2b2ob4ob2o$3bob4obo!

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x = 14, y = 26, rule = B3/S23                                                                                                          
4b2o2b2o$3b3o2b3o$bo2bo4bo2bo$bo10bo$bo2bo4bo2bo$4bo4bo$3bo6bo$                                                                        
3b2o4b2o$o5b2o5bo$b2o8b2o$b2o3b2o3b2o$4b2o2b2o3$2b2ob4ob2o$2b10o                                                                       
$3bob4obo2$4bo4bo$3bob4obo$3bo2b2o2bo$6b2o$2bob2o2b2obo$bo10bo$2b                                                                      
3ob2ob3o$6b2o!  

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x = 14, y = 21, rule = B3/S23                                                                                                          
3b2o4b2o$3bo6bo$3b2o4b2o$b3o6b3o$obo8bobo$b3ob4ob3o$5b4o2$6b2o$                                                                        
2bo8bo2$2b2o6b2o$4b6o$4b6o$3bobo2bobo$4bo4bo$3b2o4b2o$5b4o$bo4b2o                                                                      
4bo$2b2ob4ob2o$3bob4obo! 

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x = 16, y = 18, rule = B3/S23                                                                                                          
4b2o4b2o$o3b2o4b2o3bo$b2ob2o4b2ob2o$b2o4b2o4b2o$7b2o$6bo2bo$3bo                                                                        
8bo2$3b2o6b2o$5b6o$5b6o$4bobo2bobo$5bo4bo$4b2o4b2o$6b4o$2bo4b2o4b                                                                      
o$3b2ob4ob2o$4bob4obo!
EDIT: and a new back end for the turtle:

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x = 14, y = 12, rule = B3/S23                                                                                                          
2b2o6b2o$2b2o6b2o$3o2b4o2b3o$2o3b4o3b2o$2o10b2o$3bobo2bobo$4bo4b                                                                       
o$3b2o4b2o$5b4o$bo4b2o4bo$2b2ob4ob2o$3bob4obo!
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Re: turtle tagalongs

Post by Hunting » August 1st, 2018, 9:02 pm

I've just find those tagalongs... But they're new.

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Re: turtle tagalongs

Post by Hdjensofjfnen » August 3rd, 2018, 11:32 pm

The fourth one can be considered a new spaceship! Want to name it?

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x = 5, y = 9, rule = B3-jqr/S01c2-in3
3bo$4bo$o2bo$2o2$2o$o2bo$4bo$3bo!

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x = 7, y = 5, rule = B3/S2-i3-y4i
4b3o$6bo$o3b3o$2o$bo!

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Re: turtle tagalongs

Post by Hunting » August 4th, 2018, 2:12 am

I found a new spaceship, too

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x = 14, y = 28, rule = B3/S23
8b2o$8b2o3bo$3b2o3b2ob2o$2bo3bo4b2o$2b5o$b2o$2b2o$o2$b2o3b2o$2ob4o$2ob
o$bo3bo$4bo$6bo$4bo$3bo3bo$5b2o$2bo$3b2obo$7bo$4b3o$2bo$2bo7b2o$2bo4bo
4bo$3bobo2b4o$4b2ob2o$4b2o!

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Re: turtle tagalongs

Post by KittyTac » August 14th, 2018, 6:14 am

The fourth one should be called "tortoise", because it is similar to a turtle, but has different legs.

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Re: turtle tagalongs

Post by Hdjensofjfnen » August 14th, 2018, 9:19 pm

I think that would work as a name. Let's get a mod to check if this is truly original.

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x = 5, y = 9, rule = B3-jqr/S01c2-in3
3bo$4bo$o2bo$2o2$2o$o2bo$4bo$3bo!

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x = 7, y = 5, rule = B3/S2-i3-y4i
4b3o$6bo$o3b3o$2o$bo!

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Re: turtle tagalongs

Post by dvgrn » August 14th, 2018, 10:16 pm

Hdjensofjfnen wrote:I think that would work as a name. Let's get a mod to check if this is truly original.
Shucks, why do the mods have to do the work?

60-bit c/3 spaceships are common enough that there are too many of them to fit in a reasonable-sized stamp collection. See Golly's Patterns/Life/Spaceships/c3-orthogonal.rle -- it stops at 50 bits, and things are already getting a little crazy there.

I can't find offhand that "tortoise" has been applied to anything, and I haven't found an exact copy of that 60-bit spaceship. However... Sokwe might know better than I, but my guess would be that this spaceship has been found several times by various searches, but was then discarded as being too big to be worth collecting.

Spaceships with smaller bit counts or smaller bounding boxes are usually considered to be more interesting than larger ones. Maybe a good way to think of the naming question is that it might make sense to assign an official name to every spaceship in c3-orthogonal.rle, and also every spaceship in the 51- to 59-bit range, before it makes sense to name this particular 60-bit spaceship "tortoise".

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Re: turtle tagalongs

Post by Platypus6 » August 15th, 2018, 10:06 pm

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but the 4th one is already in JS life.
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