User:Apple Bottom/Old userpage

I like wine, I like cheese
I like the smell of a westerly breeze
But even more than all of these
I like to be on —
Horseback.

Howdy, I'm Apple Bottom.

I'm fascinated by cellular automata, though I'd hesitate to call myself a Life enthusiast. My favorite outer-totalistic rules (other than Life itself) are Day & Night (B3678/S34678), B367/S3567 (which has a family of natural period-24 spaceships, as well as a period-800 ship) and B378/S3567 (which has a large variety of natural and semi-natural spaceships of different periods, including a smoking period 274 ship). On the non-totalistic side, I like B2e3ai4arw5678/S3-an4ar5i678 (SlugWorld), a rule that has a vast number of natural and semi-natural spaceships of different periods.

I'm a contributor to Calcyman's Catagolue, and the second biggest contributor to B3/S23/C1, with 16.5+ trillion objects contributed to B3/S23 (11.9+ trillion to C1; 4.6+ trillion to higher symmetries). I'm an occasional (and sometimes prolific) LifeWiki editor, as well as an administrator. I helped alpha-test apgmera 3.x, and tweaked the final version in minor ways to better suit my needs (current patch: 3.28-ab7). I wrote a Catagolue browser extension for Opera, and helped Simon Ekström compute the number of 29- and 30-bit strict/pseudo still lifes. Occasionally I write other bits of Life-related code, but they're largely unreleased. The only notable pattern I've found is the pony express, the first natural puffer other than the two switch engines.

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In addition to on here you can find me on the ConwayLife.com forums as Apple Bottom, on Catagolue as Apple Bottom, on Twitter as @_AppleBottom_, on the Internet Archive as @apple_bottom and on Github as AppleBottom.

If you want to get in touch, sending me a mention on Twitter's the best way to do so.

My Catagolue statistics

Prefix	Distinct objects discovered	Score
xp2	450	207.52
xp3	72	35.04
xp4	6	2.56
xp5	1	0.17
xp6	2	0.37
xp15	5	1.92
xp24	2	1.23
xp30	8	5.57
xp46	2	0.45
xq4	18	8.74
xs14	1	1.00
xs19	2	2.00
xs21	3	2.53
xs22	2	2.00
xs24	1	1.00
xs25	1	1.00
xs26	1	1.00
xs30	95	58.41
xs31	47	35.22
xs32	34	20.98
xs33	11	7.29
xs34	15	8.25
xs35	3	2.50
xs36	6	3.02
xs37	1	1.00
xs38	1	0.50
xs39	1	1.00
xs42	1	0.06
yl144	1	1.00
yl1152	2	2.00
Total	795	415.32

(Scoring method: harmonic.)

My LifeWiki contributions

As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.
— Socrates

• Edits
• Images
• Log entries
  • Blocks
  • Deletions
  • Moves
  • Protections
  • Uploads

Apple Bot

User:Apple Bot is my bot. It's not currently used for anything, primarily because the Perl modules keep getting broken by changes to the MediaWiki API. (It isn't because I'm lazy, nosiree.)

• Edits

Subpages

• User:Apple Bottom/Catagolue (incomplete, outdated, not updated)
• User:Apple Bottom/Bibliography (list of books and articles, highly incomplete)
• User:Apple Bottom/Day & Night (some interesting Day & Night patterns)
• User:Apple Bottom/TODO

Non-categorizing infobox templates

Use these templates instead of the standard templates when creating pattern pages below your user page to avoid cluttering the main pattern categories.

• User:Apple Bottom/Oscillator
• User:Apple Bottom/Spaceship
• User:Apple Bottom/Stilllife

Sandbox

• User:Apple Bottom/Sandbox (Sandbox subpages)

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