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I have updates to three patterns in the main Golly collection. Oscillators/honey-farm-hasslers.rle: #C Honey farm hasslers. #C There is an unusual proliferation of oscillators engineered this #C way, because there are so many ways to perturb a honey farm in #C such a way that it reappears in the sam...

There is a nice potential p49 in the osc-supported section of jslife consisting of 4 interacting traffic lights. Completed: x = 189, y = 189, rule = B3/S23 93b2ob2o$94bobo$93bo3bo$92bob2obo$90b3obobo$89bo$89bob3obo$88b2obo3bo$ 88bo3b2o$89b2obo$90bobob2ob2o$89bo2bo3bobo$90b2o4bobob2o$92b5ob2obo$ 92b...

I've been trying to solve some old problems with new technology. Here is a stabilization of a p13 wick from jslife using one of the new p13 oscillators: x = 91, y = 25, rule = B3/S23 25bo19bo19bo$23b3o17b3o17b3o19bo$22bo19bo19bo20b5o$22b2o18b2o18b2o18bo 5bo$68b2o13b3o2bo$69bo16bob2o$69bob2o11b3o3bo$...

Looking some more at the osc-supported section of jslife, I noticed that one of the p72 reactions could be supported by Elkies' p36: x = 47, y = 47, rule = B3/S23 18b2o$19bo6bo$19bobo4bo$20b2o6bo$27b2o$26b2o$27bo$28bo3$21bo$22bo$22b 2o$21b2o$21bo6b2o$17bo5bo4bobo$15b3o5bo6bo$14bo15b2o$14b2o30bo$4b3o...

There is a nice potential p49 in the osc-supported section of jslife consisting of 4 interacting traffic lights. According to JLS there is no p7 that can provide the necessary dot spark, but there is another possibility that looks like it has some promise: x = 39, y = 27, rule = B3/S23 18b2o$16bo$17...

p23: x = 26, y = 33, rule = B3/S23 16b2o$16bo$17bo$14b4o$5b2o7bo$5bo11b3o$2b2obo11bo2bob2o$o2bob2o3bo3bo 4b2obo2bo$2obo5b2o2bobo6bob2o$3bo5bo5bo6bo$3b2o7b3o6b2o$7b3o3$9bobo$9b 2o3b3o$14b3o$9b2o$9b2o3$11bo$3b2o5b2o9b2o$3bo5b2obo9bo$2obo6bobo9bob2o $o2bob2o4b2o6b2obo2bo$2b2obo11bo2bob2o$5bo11b3o$5b2o...

A for awesome wrote: ↑

November 24th, 2019, 12:24 am

It appears to be an unnoticed variant of caterer on figure eight

It's been known since this post. Possibly earlier.

As Scorbie noted here , a new p5 volcano reduces the p20 gun: x = 68, y = 36, rule = LifeHistory 34.BA$34.2AB.2A$33.B.2A2.A$33.BA.3A$33.BA2B2.3A$27.2A4.BA2.A.A2.A$26. A2.A3.B4A.AB2A2.A$25.A2.A.2B6.3A2.3A$22.A2.3A.2AB3.B2A.2B2A6.2A.2A$ 22.3A3.3AB3.BA.BA3.A5.2A.2A3.A.A4.2A$25.2A.B2A4.BA.A.3A13.A.4A2.A...

Is there a P27 V sparker? It would help if you explain why you need it. I might guess that you want to complete the following potential gun: x = 24, y = 18, rule = B3/S23 4b2o$5bo$5bob2o$6bo3bo$12bo$7bo3bobo$b2o8b2o7bobo$bobo3bo4bo8bo$3bo3b 2o$3b3o13b2o$b2o3bo8bo4bo$o2b4o8b2o$2obo10bobo3bo$3bob2o8b...

To clarify what Scorbie said, the pattern above is just the partial from this post advanced by two generations. Hopefully this may serve as a reminder of this particular problem. However, it is helpful when posting a pattern to mention how it was found or where it came from. By the way, here is the ...

Finished the near-miss It's really quite astounding that you pulled this additional TL hassler out of the aether. The spark here is a bit stronger, so it can be used to activate the block+pond reaction for another nice p26: x = 32, y = 40, rule = B3/S23 20bobobobo$19bob2ob2obo$17b3o7b3o$16bo4b2ob2o...

Another variation Finished the near-miss Another dimer Two more These are great! Is it too much to hope that we can get a p26 reflector? Here is a stator minimization (with respect to both bounding box and population): x = 17, y = 20, rule = B3/S23 3bo$3b3o$6bo$5bo$5bo3bo2$7bobo$8bo4$2bo11bo$bobo3b...

P13: x = 26, y = 17, rule = B3S23 6.A12.A$2A2.5A8.5A2.2A$A2.A5.A6.A5.A2.A$2.2A2.3A8.3A2.2A$3.A.A14.A.A$ 2.A2.2A12.2A2.A$2.A.A2.A10.A2.A.A$.2A.4A10.4A.2A$7.A10.A$.2A.4A10.4A. 2A$2.A.A2.A10.A2.A.A$2.A2.2A12.2A2.A$3.A.A14.A.A$2.2A2.3A8.3A2.2A$A2. A5.A6.A5.A2.A$2A2.5A8.5A2.2A$6.A12.A! Monomerized: x = ...

Here are short, wide variants of Scorbie's p6 sparker using alternate p3 supports: x = 67, y = 14, rule = B3/S23 6b2o31b2o$4bo4bo27bo4bo3b2o$46bo11bo$3bo6bo25bo6bo4bo3bo2bo2b3o$b3ob2o bob3o21b3ob2obob5obo2b4o5bo$o3bo3bo4bob2o16bo3bo3bo5bob3o4b4o2bo$obob 2o2b3o2bobo17bobob2o2b5obo5b2o3bo4bo$b2obo2bo3...

A shorter, wider p3 stabilization of the new p6 sparker can shrink the p24 gun a bit further: x = 38, y = 31, rule = LifeHistory 5.2A.2A4.2A3.2A4.2A$5.2A.A.A2.B2AB.B2AB2.A.A5.2A$8.A.4BABA.ABA4B.A.2A .A2.A$8.A2BA5B.5BA2BA2.A.A2.A$9.A7B.7BA2.A2.4A.2A$3.A.A6.BAB2A.2ABAB 6.2A4.A.A$.3A.3A3.2BA2BA.A2BA2B8...

Entity Valkyrie 2 wrote: ↑

November 9th, 2019, 7:55 am

Useless?

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x = 19, y = 20, rule = B3/S23
o5b2o$b2o3b2o$2o3$o$b2o$2o$4b2o11b2o$3bo2bo10b2o$3bobo$4bo4$3b2o$4bo$b
3o$bo8b2o$10b2o!

This is an old discovery of Guam's. It can be seen in the latest elementary conduit collection.

Entity Valkyrie 2 wrote: ↑

November 10th, 2019, 9:06 pm

Maybe this is more useful

This is Lx65.

Smaller p24 thanks to a small p6 sparker by Scorbie : x = 40, y = 31, rule = LifeHistory 5.2A.2A4.2A3.2A4.2A.2A$5.2A.A.A2.B2AB.B2AB2.A.A.2A$8.A.4BABA.ABA4B.A$ 8.A2BA5B.5BA2BA$9.A7B.7BA$3.A.A6.BAB2A.2ABAB$.3A.3A3.2BA2BA.A2BA2B$A 7.A2.2B3AB.B3A2B5.2A3.A$BAB6A3.5B.5B5.A2.A.A.A2.A$.2AB.B.A3.6B.6B4.A. 2A...

here's a reduced p6 HW emulator. Found with ofind but one may cut a row or two. That's amazingly compact! Only the top 8 rows are p6; the rest is p3. I used JLS to find a variant with the same bounding box, but a slightly smaller population: x = 14, y = 16, rule = B3/S23 6b2o$4bo4bo2$3bo6bo$b3obob2...

Jormungant wrote: ↑

November 5th, 2019, 8:22 pm

I never saw that edge gun before, where did you find it?

This reaction was posted by Tanner Jacobi here. It is based on the 180-degree reflector found by Arie Paap here.

By the way, this ship (27P4H1V1) is called "wings" in Nicolay Beluchenko's small ship collection. I was unable to determine where the name came from. The ship itself was discovered by Jason Summers on September 13, 2000 using gfind. It was found in the same search that found crab.

I want the entire collection of all 2c/5 ships There is no "entire collection", because there are too many 2c/5 ships to keep track of (likewise with c/3 and c/4). Most known elementary and elementary-based moving objects are contained in the following collections: jslife-moving , knightt results ,...

Adding another ship gave this: (c/4 diagonal puffer, p40) Wow! I think this is the first new c/4 diagonal period achieved since the rake constructions 14 years ago! I posted on the Discord yesterday my find that the existing stabilization of the c/4 diagonal puffer engine could be combined with a k...

Nice work! I think these are all the known ships up to 34 bits that have not yet been synthesized: x = 89, y = 197, rule = B3/S23 25bo$24bobo$23b2o$obobo3bobobo11bobo$24b2o$4bo3bo18bo$23bo2bo$obobo3bo bobo9bo$21b2o$o7bo3bo9bo$22b3o$obobo3bobobo10bo$25bo$23b2o$23b2o$25bo 13$29bo$27b2o$27b2o$29bo$27bo...

Incredible! Congratulations to all of the participants! In my first post tackling the original 17-bit synthesis project, I posted a 54 glider synthesis that I described as "obvious": x = 417, y = 58, rule = B3/S23 346bo$344bobo$345b2o4$299bo74bo$298bo74bo8bobo$298b3o72b3o6b2o$355bo 14bo12bo$37bo84bo...

Gustone wrote:

Sokwe wrote: I had previously decided not to include them in the jslife-moving collection, because I felt they caused clutter.

?????? but you included fireships pulling blocks

My reasoning at the time was that fireship is the smallest known spaceship capable of pulling those tagalongs.