User:Apple Bottom/Old userpage

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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 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 14.8+ trillion objects contributed to B3/S23 (10.7+ trillion to C1; 4.1+ 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.

Conchita.png × 2 Gigamyriad.png Limitless.png × 2 Monarchist.png × 3 Sprotsmanship.png × ... Trillionaire.png × 10 Voyager.png × 27

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.

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

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