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Amling, when you get a chance, could you try to complete this potential c/4 diagonal puffer engine (shown here at 4-generation intervals): x = 556, y = 44, rule = B3/S23 9bobo37bobo37bobo37bobo37bobo37bobo37bobo37bobo37bobo37bobo37bobo37bob o37bobo37bobo$7b3o37b3o37b3o37b3o37b3o37b3o37b3o37b3o37b3o3...

A p20 c/4d spaceship might be possible by modifying the p28 puffer. Here is a way that a spark could theoretically be provided at c/4d that would result in a p20 spaceship: Is there some trick to finding these things? Is it just guess and check by simulating in golly, sparking by hand? Yes, guess a...

Here is a (probably useless) p16 c/4 diagonal blinker puffer created by perturbing the p8 backrake glider stream with sparkers: x = 152, y = 153, rule = B3/S23 70bo$69b2o$69bob3o$73bo$68bo$65b4obobobo$65bo5bo2bo$66bo2b4o$65b2o2b2o $59b2o4b2o$59bo2bo2b2o$49bo3bo4bo2b2o2bo2bo$48b5o2bobo4bo2bo$48bo6b3o...

Here's a p24 rake: Packed: Beehive-to-ship-to-loaf-to-loaf-to-glider is a rather roundabout way to get there, but it gets the job done. Excellent! If we use the faster loaf deletion the beehive-to-...-to-glider converter can work as low as period 20: x = 170, y = 190, rule = B3/S23 bo$obo$obo$bo$55...

I want to point out something in particular from the above c/4d eater reference that hasn't been mentioned before. There are three closely related sparkers that can be given one more half-diagonal of clearance: x = 199, y = 93, rule = B3/S23 32b2obo66b2obo66b2obo$32bo3bo65bo3bo65bo3bo$32bo4bo64bo4bo...

c/4 Diagonal Eater and Converter Reference This post is meant to be a reference for the various c/4 diagonal eaters and converters found over the last few months. Object Lists Below is a list of some small objects that can be eaten by c/4 diagonal ships. The list accounts for orientation, so otherw...

I confess I don't follow how we'd expect 84 = 3x28 or 108 = 3x36 as they're not multiples of 8 and so LCM with p24 is bigger. Is there some non-p8-requiring trick upthread I've forgotten? There are so many to keep track of... I wasn't really thinking about it too closely. I suspect that some unique...

I am the original poster of the double beehive push, as far as I know. oregan0 on discord. Sorry, I'm confused. Are you saying that you are the discoverer and oregan0 is your Discord username? Also, can I get a link to where the pattern was first posted on Discord and where it was first posted on t...

Might anybody be interested in running the various highly speculative drifter searches starting from a pair of double-length signals converging on one location? Or some way of combining the various sparkers that we can attach to the output end of a 2c/3 wire? It would be very entertaining if it was...

Conjecture: 29 is the lowest population for which an infinite number of distinct, non-pseudo oscillators exist. I believe it. I think the lower bound will always be three more than whatever cell count for which we've fully enumerated all infinitely growth patterns. Right now this is 9+3 = 12. There...

I don't think period 108 should be in the list since 36 is already a multiple of 3, and the period tripling filter doesn't work for those. I suspect something could likely be achieved by colliding p36 glider streams, although it wouldn't be as straightforward as the others. Can the other listed per...

Is this P4 known?(due to its size, I think it’s definitely known.) It was isolated from a larger P4 : x = 11, y = 11, rule = B3/S23 2o5bo$obo4b3o$2bo2b2o3bo$b2obo2b3o$2bob2obo$2bo2bo$2bobo$2bo4b2o$7bo$ 8b3o$10bo! The rotor is not in the latest knownrotors file, and I don't recognize it off-hand. He...

Here's a still life which gives a new bound of 236 cells: x = 28, y = 26, rule = B3/S23 2bo8b2o$2b3o5bobo$5bo4bo2b2o2b2o$4bo2b2ob2obo2bo2bobo$4b2ob2o2bo2bob2o b2obo$5bo4bo2b2o2bo4bo$2obo2bob2ob2o2bo2bob2ob2o$ob3ob2obo2bo2b2ob2obo 2bo$5bo4bo2b2o2bo4bo$4bo2b2ob2obo2bo2b2ob2o$4b2ob2o2bo2bob2ob2o2bo$5b...

Here's a way in which the "new" c/4 diagonal back sparker can interact with a p8 rake stream without immediately falling apart: x = 109, y = 122, rule = B3/S23 70bo$69b2o$69bob3o$73bo$68bo$65b4obobobo$65bo5bo2bo$66bo2b4o$65b2o2b2o $59b2o4b2o$59bo2bo2b2o$49bo3bo4bo2b2o2bo2bo$48b5o2bobo4bo2bo$48bo6b3o...

It's probably about time for another NewLifeCA issue or two. I intend to write up an issue on the new c/4 diagonal technology soon (especially given today's new discoveries). Before that, there should be an issue covering the various other Life results, including the following (from the news archive...

And here is a duplicator. #C A diagonal c/4 convoy replicates a loaf and creates a sideways glider. #C Two copies of the convoy are shown here producing two gliders. #C The minimum repeat time of this reaction is 20 generations. x = 97, y = 101 boo$obbo18b3o$bobo18bo$bbo20bo$25boo$26bo$$23bo29boo$2...

Does anyone have an example of one vacuum-incompatible velocity dragging another? I am not aware of any such patterns. I doubt they've been searched for much if at all, and I can't think of any easy way to construct an examples hand, other than those that you showed. It seems like you would have to...

Solved, a c/4d max clearance converter of one loaf orientation (the common one we can make from backwards glider) to a sideways loaf: #C [[ TRACK -1/4 -1/4 ]] x = 55, y = 118, rule = B3/S23 19bo$18bobo$17bo2bo$18b2o3$24bo$23bobo$22bo2bo$23b2o3$30bo$29bobo$28bo 2bo$29b2o2$35bo$34bobo$33bo2bo$34b2o$3...

Collections on the wiki (in their current form) are not perfect, either. Probably that could be improved. (E.g. style/formatting guidelines, discovery information, criteria for inclusion.) They're still much better than the outdated stamp collections with no attribution info that are currently incl...

In the past we maintained stamp collections of honey farm hasslers and traffic light hasslers, but the number of these hasslers (as well as hasslers of other objects) has since exploded. I'm wondering if it might be better to reduce these collections to include only one example for each known period...

one question for you perhaps is how interesting is 62-cell 2c/5 even assuming 60-cell 2c/5 even completes with no surprises (just the known doubling of the 30-cell ship)? Lowest priority. Only run it if you have absolutely nothing else to run. The same projections that put 60-cell 2c/5 even at 83.1...

2c/5 pop 32 died in what I suspect is the worst phase search. After that I went back and ran pop 31 which squeaked by, running ~6h on the fanciest machine and maxing out at 119.89GB RAM. It found only the known pop 30 ship. This confirms that ship is smallest and there are no ships with minpop 31. ...

Infoboxes are really confusing, in several different ways. I think there are many cases when one could do better without an infobox. Pattern infoboxes work great for unambiguous individual patterns that aren't subject to change, like loafer or mazing . They work less well with patterns that can be ...

the page and the infobox should stay at "55P23". From the viewpoint of documenting it on LifeWiki, the reduction from 55 cells to 54 cells does not make a new article topic. The oscillator was discovered in 2022 and it is best to show and describe the original version in the infobox, with details a...

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March 3rd, 2024, 1:02 am

I have a few results on the elementary side of things to share

Wow, that's quite a lot! Please cross-post the ships representing new speeds to the spaceships in Life-like CA thread.