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Thanks to Extrementhusiast, the crab joins the unnamed 2c/5, the dart, and the loafer in the rather short of non c/2 ships having a known glider synthesis: x = 98, y = 100, rule = B3/S23 86bo$84b2o$85b2o$71bobo$71b2o22bo$72bo20b2o$64bobo27b2o$64b2o$65bo6$ 73bobo$73b2o$74bo2$85bobo$85b2o$86bo2$73bobo...

I think that this would be an interesting combo: 1. Life: diversity, universal constructiors 2. Highlife: Replicators 3. Move: Many spaceships, quite stable 4. Star wars: indestructible patterns, lightspeed, relative stability in comparison of other B2s The whole could behave like quadlife: if 3 cel...

Definitley, this has been a rich year and half for spaceships.

Here is an interesting 7c/14 ship, resulting from a collision of the 2c/3 ship posted above with the normal c/2 ship. x = 12, y = 7, rule = 0345/2/10 IECBA$.IECB$HE2A.AIGECA$2GE2A2.IGECA$HE2A.AIGECA$.IECB$IECBA! It's one of the 4 natural tagalongs this ship has. Here's some others, which seem to be...

This puffer has a very interesting backwards output. The diagonal-ship output from each half is exactly in the right position to terminate what would otherwise be infinitely growing diagonal lines. x = 122, y = 40, rule = /2/3 .B4AB108.B4AB$.A.2B112.2B.A$2.B3.2BA104.A2B3.B$6.2A.BA100.AB.2A$9.BA 100...

It looks like a new specie Diagonal lines chaos: x = 138, y = 134, rule = B124/S34 2o2b2o2b2o18b2o2b2o2b2o74b2o2b2o2b2o$2o2b2o2b2o18b2o2b2o2b2o74b2o2b2o 2b2o$22b2o2b2o10b2o2b2o22b2o2b2o6b2o2b2o22b2o2b2o10b2o2b2o$22b2o2b2o 10b2o2b2o22b2o2b2o6b2o2b2o22b2o2b2o10b2o2b2o$4b2o26b2o6b2o22b2o18b2o 22b2o6b2o...

The outer layer of this "orb" seems totally indestructible (I need confirmation). New parts may be added or destroyed by random events (An exterior intervention may burst it), but the structure seems to last forever. At the center is a 90 degree bounce of a photon over a diagonal "mirror" x = 18, y ...

A small oscillator is capable to eat this gun's enterprises in Morley. However, the oscillator becomes a p2, which becomes a p4 again after another collision. Wha pakes this eating reaction unique is that the oscillator doesn't only changes it's shape, it changes it's period. Yet stands still. x = 6...

This is the base reaction being discussed? (For those who don't want to wait 130K generations) x = 24, y = 27, rule = B3/S23 5bobo$4bo2bo$3b2o$2bo$b4o$o4bo6bo$o2bo5b2obo$o2bo5bo11bo$bo7bo11bobo$ 2b4obo13b2o$3bo3bo$4bo6b6o$4b5o2bo5bo$11bo$4b5o3bo4bo$4bo9b2o$3bo3bo2b o$2b4obo3bobo$bo7bo4bo$o2bo5bo4bo...

Interesting, indeed, the pattern starts to emit self-replicating collisions. I continued to run this, here's the result: a fourth "replicollision" (Do you have a better name?) appears at around 650K And a fith at around 1M250K. The third and the first replicollisions are damaged at aroung the same t...

Amazing! It looks pretty sure that this new 2-engine breakthrough will allow to pass the wall of 20 cells. And it raises yet again the infamous question: what is the ultimate record holder?

@sowke: In fact, a few post later, you build the exact same figure.
I'm proud to see this reaction used.

I think we could broaden the topic: could loaves be possibly used as an info storage? They contain a lot of info, and have more useful reactions than the block.

My reactions:
1. Ha, hah. Funny. However, I'll run it.
2. Hey, that's a puffer, actually
3. Wow, each leftover is bigger than the last! This is a breeder with a very small growth coefficient!

Well, now my 96-cell pattern's record is shattered. By the way, you have your answer, with this 9-cell predecessor I found by looking the way they are formed. But now, we are stuck: we'd have to find an even better predecessor, and given that TBPs are still relatively rare, this is probably mission ...

Hmm... My pattern is indeed an explicit breeder. However, the breeder takes approximately 50K generations to start, so I suggest you to remove useless chunks of the pattern, (notably the four first puffers, after which breeding stops for a while) to see the whole pattern. But yes, a beefy computer i...

A 216-cell breeder in B37/S23 (Higherlife?) x = 2042, y = 129, rule = B37/S23 4bo5bo12bo5bo$2bo2bo3bo2bo8bo2bo3bo2bo$b2o9b2o6b2o9b2o$2o4bobo4b2o4b2o 4bobo4b2o$2obob2ob2obob2o4b2obob2ob2obob2o$3o9b3o4b3o9b3o$b5o3b5o6b5o 3b5o$2b3o5b3o8b3o5b3o$3b3o3b3o10b3o3b3o$4bobobobo12bobobobo$6bobo16bob o$3bo2bobo...

Bob: those are billard-table oscillators. This term means that the stator entirely contains the rotor (the stator can be somewhat "open" in some cases). Furthermore, most of your oscillators are either clones with the same rotor, either already known, I fear. finally, the 3 last ones are "trivial os...

After the "Traffic light turns a loaf" reaction, I decided to look for more TL+L reactions that re-create a loaf: here's some (I put some that were already known) x = 103, y = 78, rule = LifeHistory 20F2.21F5.20F$F18.F2.F19.F5.F18.F12.18F$F5.A12.F2.F19.F5.F18.F12.F16. F$F5.3A10.F2.F19.F5.F18.F12.F16...

Heisenburps and reflectors use very different reactions. Heisenburps try not to affect the glider, and therefore use reactions which touch it, possibly sightly dismanteling it but not affecting it's direction, speed or polarity. A glider passing through an heisenburp stays similar to a twin gilder w...

A seminatural p12 that doesn't look like anything in CGOL.

cjfaure: Actually, a 2K lifespawn for a 10 cell methusaleh is not that rare. The most potent known 10-cell methusaleh is the bunnies-10, having a lifespawn of 17423. Therefor your pattern may be new, but it isn't very remarkable either.


But in any case, welcome!

A reaction between a loaf and a TL may lead to a p20 oscillator... I couldn't get it to work at period 20, but it does work at period 24: x = 50, y = 50, rule = B3/S23 20b2o9b2o$21bo9bo$20bo11bo$20b2o9b2o$21bo4bo4bo$18b3ob9ob3o$17bo2bo3bo bobo3bo2bo$17b2o15b2o$23b2o3b2o2$21b2ob2ob2ob2o$20bo5bo5bo$2...

A reaction between a loaf and a TL may lead to a p20 oscillator: x = 27, y = 14, rule = LifeHistory 9.D15.A$8.3D13.3A$9.D15.A$.D$3D3.C15.A$.D3.CDCD12.A.A$5.C2DCD11.A2.A$ 4.2D2CD13.2A$5.4D3.D$7.D3.3D$12.D$4.D$3.3D$4.D! To spin the loaf, place the cross it faces. However, there's a drawback which will...

Hmm...
For me, it would be very useful, for massive structures like the "DNA-like spiral replicator" to have a synthesis for the spark catalyst.

Interestingly, removing the block creates another, more complex system of block generation and destruction.