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I would like to request my account (User:Dets65) be set to trusted. Thank you!

I was going to write a brief "rough draft" of an intro page, but I am admittedly not anywhere near an expert and multiple, hyperlinked posts/pages would probably work best. Generally, I think some very "basic" sounding questions can be surprisingly hard to find an answer to for newcomers. Sometimes ...

A variant of Rocknlol's ship is infinitely extensible, as well: x = 29, y = 29, rule = 345/2/4 4.BA$3.C.A$2.B.B2A$.A.C2.2A$.A2BAB.2A.CB$2A.C.C2.2A.C$.2A.ABAB.2A.CB$ C.2A.C.C2.2A.C$.B.2A.ABA2B2A.CB$2.A.2A.C.C2.2A.C$5.2A.ABA2B2A.CB$6.2A .C.C2.2A.C$5.AB2A.ABA2B2A.CB$8.2A.C.C2.2A.C$7.AB2A.ABA2B2A.CB$10....

New spaceship!

Just for fun: x = 5, y = 241, rule = 345/25678/7 2.ACE$2.BDF$.ACE$.BDF$ACE$BDF$ACE$.BDF$.ACE$2.BDF$2.ACE$2.BDF$.ACE$.B DF$ACE$BDF$ACE$.BDF$.ACE$2.BDF$2.ACE$2.BDF$.ACE$.BDF$ACE$BDF$ACE$.BDF $.ACE$2.BDF$2.ACE$2.BDF$.ACE$.BDF$ACE$BDF$ACE$.BDF$.ACE$2.BDF$2.ACE$ 2.BDF$.ACE$.BDF$ACE$BDF$ACE$.BDF$.ACE$2.B...

H climber = Herschel climber, the base oblique reaction of the Waterbear; sorry for any confusion :) By the time I joined the forums, the oblique climbing reaction that generated two gliders was long known, and the helix with the correct velocity had been engineered by codeholic's script. Those bui...

The Waterbear was mostly copy-pasted; in 79 generations the H climber would go through its full cycle so all I had to do was figure out where the next H had to go and copy and paste a glider track and an H in the right phase from somewhere else on the ship. And again it relied on building blocks. O...

Have a smallest breeder! x = 10, y = 6, rule = 345/25678/7 5.B$4.C.C.A$5AD4A$3AF3AB2A$2.EBE.A.A$3.D! So that's where those breeders come from... They're also not technically replicators but Wallplicators sounds better than Wallbreeders to be honest. :lol: After all, the main body sure is replicated...

Flotilla which can be modified into a rake (Thanks to Saka for the predecessor!) x = 60, y = 49, rule = 345/25678/7 2$26.BC$26.DCDC$7.B.D.F11.B2.3E.DF$5.18AC2DF.FDE$3.2ABADAF5AEA2.ADBA 2.E3.FC$3.2ABADAFDAD2.DCFCDF3A4.F.2D$5.3ACB2E.CB.AB3.D6.EFEC$5.3ACBED CB.2A2B.DE7.D$3.2A2BDAFC3.A2.2CEFD$3.2AB3AFA....

Finding syntheses might be a job best left to the computers While there are some programs that perform a random glider collision, they haven't been the source of most syntheses. The synthesis techniques were what I had in mind when I wrote "magic" in my earlier reply, because they still tend to fee...

I don't want to reply to both comments, but thank you for the info! That cleared that up. When you look at the Gemini, it seems so daunting, but then you realize... "Oh wait, that's a glider... And that's a Herschel! Oh, looky here! There's a block and an eater too!" I'm not currently on the level o...

I've been lurking here for a while and have NO idea how people make ANY of these things. I mean, I know that search programs exist, but how in the world was Gemini made? Or that massive p400-something gun that's included with Golly? Where people make stuff by hand, do they just brute force and make ...

I would imagine that the Glider would be a cheap, cobbled together hang-glider, but that's not exciting. A greyship would be exciting, though. When you began you would be boarding a medium-sized ship, but as you went on you'd notice the windows at the edge going further and further and further out. ...

Nice rule! Here's an interesting oscillator that can be modified to produce oscillators of a few other periods: x = 6, y = 4, rule = 345/25678/7 2.A$.4A$F.A.B$.EDC! I've seen that in other CAs, but the usual method of extending it isn't working. How did you? In other news, this produces a spaceship...

This is a rule I just created and I am fairly happy with the results, especially because there are natural (and complex) replicators. x = 42, y = 19, rule = 345/25678/7 35.ABCDEF$34.ABCDEF$33.ABCDEF$32.ABCDEF$16.A.C.E10.A.B.D.F$14.A.16ACA EC.E$5.C7.3ACAEA.ABADAF7ABCDEF$2.A.DAD2.E3.3ACBED.FA.CBED.F$5...

I found this strangely complex (and natural) puffer in a star wars variant I'm working on. x = 252, y = 60, rule = 34/24/4 9$10.AB$9.BC.C$8.AC9.A.A$8.B10.AB2A$9.C8.A2BAC2.BC.ABC.ABC.ABC.ABC.AB C.ABC.ABC.ABC.ABC.ABC.ABC.ABC.ABC.ABC.ABC.ABC.ABC.ABC.ABC.ABC.ABC.ABC .ABC.ABC.ABC.ABC.ABC.ABC.ABC.ABC.ABC....

@Dets65 That puffer is used in this spaceship. Oh, woops. Sorry! I don't know how you can instantly pool this information, but hey. It's the only thing I found on that rule (and honestly, since I have other projects, I couldn't be bothered to find more). It is amazingly common. Not very often you s...

gulabgang wrote:Unfortunately, much of Life's technology does not work in this rule, for example the Gosper glider gun and the twin bees shuttle.

Things as (comparatively) complex as the gosper glider gun don't work in rules other than life, usually, unless the differences are entirely trivial, like adding an S7.

This is a very cool rule. Here's a pretty frightening puffer/breeder of ever-increasing complexity. x = 9, y = 13, rule = 0345/2/10 I2A4.GF$H.2A3.FE$G2A.GHFED$F.2A2IHDC$E2A.EFDCB$D.2A2GFBA$C2A.CDBA$B. 2A2ED$3A.ABA$2.2A2CB$2.A.2A$3.4A$4.2A! Believe it or not, but when I tried it out, it spawned some...

I haven't checked to see if this is found yet (probably is) but this rake has an extremely interesting (and useful) reaction that could probably be used to make an analog to Sliding Block Memory. I found this in 0345/2/7 but it works in this rule too. x = 11, y = 7, rule = 0345/2/10 5.A.BA$3.2A2BDB$...

A puffer that I found in a rule that is a derivative of a "nearly exploding" rule I saw here on the forums. It's extremely common, but since the rule is just barely exploding (the chaos looks a lot like life soup before it stabilizes) I can't find anything else of note immediately, because there is ...

Here's a rule I call "Rebirth", it can exhibit some interesting growth activity if the center of the pattern is random enough: 345/23/45

And also I have one I'm experimenting with that may or may not be worthy of its own thread, I will investigate further :

How about B3/S1256? I was looking for chaotic rules with S1 (I decided on its neighbor B3/S126) and I found this VERY slowly exploding rule. Though there are plenty of patterns that settle down. I was also searching for very nearly exploding rules with S1 (but without S2). I tried some rules with S...

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That's fine :p