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#N Backrake 2 #O David Buckingham #C A period 12 orthogonal c/2 backrake. #C www.conwaylife.com/wiki/index.php?title=Backrake_2 x = 19, y = 26, rule = 23/3 3bo15b$2b3o14b$b2obo5bo8b$b3o5b3o7b$2b2o4bo2b2o3b3o$8b3o4bo2bo$18bo$ 18bo$18bo$2b3o12bob$2bo2bo13b$2bo16b$2bo16b$3bo15b7$3o16b$o2bo11bo3b$o 13b...

Is there any "small" (less than 1000 cells) means by which those two cells could be prevented from appearing, thus allowing a sort of flotilla knightship?

x = 18, y = 10, rule = B3/S23 17bo$15b2o$b2o3bo9b2o$o2bobobo$o2bobo2bo$b2o3bobo$7bo$4bo$3bobo$4bo! I leave that example for reference, where a glider collides with that set of 3 still lifes producing a 1708-generation development. From most other angles, the collision results in the fairly boring a...

Challenge: Make (moving) glider guns for the following patterns: First, a p12: bo$2bo$3o$5bo$6bo$4b3o! Second, a p10: 2bo$obo$b2o3bo$7bo$5b3o$11bo$9bobo$10b2o! Third, a p7: bo$2bo$3o2bo$6b2o$5b2o4bo$9bobo$10b2o2bobo$15b2o3bo$15bo5bo$19b3o! This would basically make a "wall" of gliders, each as close...

Thank you :D. I'm mainly just trying to find spaceships that, when extended, have a slower speed, to try to find a way to easily create ships with higher period without experiencing tons of lag (which easily occurs with massive spaceships containing millions of cells). Perhaps a multi-spaceship reac...

The prize, then, is bragging rights?

Requesting a rule in which this: x = 11, y = 3, rule = B/S012345678 5ob5o$o9bo$11o! becomes this: x = 11, y = 3, rule = B/S012345678 6ob4o$o9bo$11o! and so on, eventually moving the entire object one cell forward as the space reaches the end of the track. I'm interested in this because it would allo...

I have a fuse that produces loaves... This fuse is the Baker ( http://conwaylife.com/wiki/Baker ). It is listed on the LifeWiki page on fuses ( http://conwaylife.com/wiki/Fuse ). It was listed in Lifeline #3 (http://conwaylife.com/wiki/Lifeline_Volume_3) so it was found before Sept. 1971. It would ...

I have a fuse that produces loaves. It burns the loaves up though. You can just barely start to see a pattern emerge in the loaf burning here (contains the original fuse): 2o$obo$3bo$4bo$5bo$6bo$7bo$8bo$9bo$10bo$ 11bo$12bo$13bo$14bo$15bo$16bo$17bo$18bo$19bo$20bo$ 21bo$22bo$23bo$24bo$25bo$26bo$27bo$2...

Upon trying to show this 8-cell predecessor of the pulsar: 1o3bo$2ob2o$o3bo It said this was an invalid pattern: o3bo$2ob2o$o3bo My only guess as to why this happens is that it has something to do with starting with an "o" (without a number), since it works just fine when starting with a "b": bo3bo$...

A clean fuse that burns at the speed of light (based on the light-speed wire):

You might want to use a finite grid, though, in case someone gets the idea of making the robots simulate a Gosper glider gun : #N Gosper glider gun #O Bill Gosper #C A true period 30 glider gun. #C The first known gun and the first known finite pattern with unbounded growth. #C www.conwaylife.com/wi...

A tiny c phoenix spaceship I've seen before. What's it called?

Request: Script that randomly gives starting locations and directions to glider guns (although spaced apart so they don't destroy each other immediately). This could be useful to discovering new glider-constructible ships with guns already being made available from the beginning.

Hello Golly community, I was wondering if there was a script to alter the cells to replicate and move randomly instead of following the strict algorithms set in place currently. I would like to see what the cellular life would do and create out of that randomness. If there is such a script, could s...

Uh... The entire grid should be mostly filled since most cells start with 0 cells nearby.

drc wrote:

muzik wrote:What even is this

Ark

Noah's ark, from the looks of it. The two parts are much farther away, though.

Period 288 variant of the block-laying switch engine -- the first natural yl288: x = 16, y = 16, rule = B3/S23 ooboobboboboobob$ boobboboooooobob$ oooobobbbobbbbob$ obbbooboobobobbo$ oboobboooboboboo$ boobbobboboobbob$ obbobbbobobooobb$ obbboooooobobobb$ oobboboobbbbbboo$ boobobbbbbbooobo$ boooobbo...

With more than one photon inside, they can run for a long time before the photons collide and make the pattern explode: x = 49, y = 50, rule = B25678/S4578 49o$49o$49o$49o$49o$49o$49o$49o$49o$49o$49o$49o$49o$49o$49o$49o$49o$ 49o$49o$49o$49o$49o$49o$49o$49o$49o$49o$49o$49o$49o$49o$49o$49o$3ob2ob 42o...

x = 0, y = 0, rule = B123/S0358 o! Any ruleset allowing birth with 1, 2, or 3 nearby cells and survival with 0, 3, 5, or 8 nearby cells will make a single cell tile the entire grid, leaving no spaces. Since all live cells have 0, 3, 5, or 8 other live cells near them, and all nearby dead cells are ...

This thing (I don't know what to call it) can be made thicker or thinner at certain intervals, and more so if blocks are used: 21bo$17b2obobob2o$17b2obobob2o$20bobo$17b2obobob2o$17b2obobob2o$20bobo$17b2obobob2o$17b2obobob2o$20bobo$17b2obobob2o$13b2obobobobobobob2o$b2ob2o3b2obobobobobobobobobobob2o3b...

burno55 wrote:made this thread because I was testing the copying and pasting of golly

I personally would have just used the "Preview" button, but who cares.

Indestructable wall: x = 15, y = 323, rule = B3_S12-ae34ceit 2o2$2o2$2o2$2o2$2o2$2o2$2o2$2o2$2o2$2o2$2o2$2o2$2o2$2o2$2o2$2o2$2o2$2o 2$2o2$2o2$2o2$2o2$2o2$2o2$2o2$2o2$2o2$2o2$2o2$2o2$2o2$2o2$2o2$2o2$2o2$ 2o2$2o2$2o2$2o2$2o2$2o2$2o2$2o2$2o2$2o2$2o2$2o2$2o2$2o2$2o2$2o2$2o2$2o 2$2o2$2o2$2o2$2o2$2o2$2o2...

9b2o$9b2o$$$$$$$$7b2o3b2o$10bo$7bo5bo32bobo$8b2ob2o31bo3bo$9bobo20b2o10bo$10bo21bo2bo7bo13b2o$10bo13b5o7bo7bo12b2o$23bo5bo6bo7bo3bo$23bo3b2o7bo9bobo$24bo7bo2bo$12bo19b2o$11b3o$10bo3bo$9bob3obo$10b5o$$$$$$4b2o$4b2o$$$$11b2o$11b2o$$$$5bo$4b3o36bo$3b5o35b2o$2b2o3b2o23bo5b2o4b2o$3b5o24bobo3b2o4b3o7b2o$...

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