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Apparently this is a rule that alternates between three different stages? 1) "Red stage": B1/D. All state 1 cells survive as state 2. Newborn cells are state 4. 2) "Orange stage": B1/D. All state 2 cells survive as state 3. All state 4 cells die. Newborn cells are state 5. 3) "Yellow stage": B368/S....

The robust "middleweight supervolcano" used here is the main new component, I presume?

I posted previously some observations based on the concept of "typical Life patterns". I'm thinking of how to quantify "typicalness". An approach that seems promising might be a simple bounding box approach: • If the smallest parent of an M×N pattern is of size M'×N' , it has a typicality rank of (M...

There are four pi+block reactions that output a LWSS (no M/HWSSes). The one just posted is indeed the cleanest and fastest; the next smallest already seems much less viable for cleanup. x = 13, y = 12, rule = B3/S23 bo$3o$obo8$11b2o$11b2o! I also know of one reaction to produce a temporary LWSS (the...

I.e., if there would be a smaller p4 c/4 spaceship, it would be definitely wider than 13 cells! Which already is rather close to the conujectured 15x15 box. Is there any reasonable heuristic to guess the size of a space ship given the speed? It is clear that there is only a finite number of pattern...

Sounds largely the same as "Unsure Discoveries" tbh.

Best I can think of for 11 and 13 are two-polyplet objects:

I'll ask the opposite question- How can you proof for specific patterns that they ARE Gardens Of Eden? I mean, a small Garden Of Eden might actually be the next generation of a dissolving pattern with a population of 10^52, and we'll never get close to discover the parent, but even then, it won't c...

Related question though: are there any small objects that are good at recovering from added cells in their vicinity? The standard eaters don't really handle single-cell perturbations.

Cool find. I definitely wasn't expecting spaceships for this rule. The reticulated structure is interesting.

In case they do not, how about: "Pedestrian Life" for B38/S23 (since traffic lights do not occur in this rule), "Pulsar Life" for B3/S238 (given the frequent pulsars from pi heptominoes), and "Honey Life" for B38/S238 (since big beehives occur surprizingly frequently in this rule)? Granted though, B...

(…) say the recently discovered 20 cell or so "loafer." With that relatively small cell size I find it hard to believe that it can never occur naturally. In fact it probably does. But let's just say it occurs once per every 1,000 occurances of the block laying switch engine. And let's just say that...

3A. A part of the previos pattern where the pi advances 4 cells in 6 generations,(2c/3). That's probably too fast to be of much use, but still worth including just in case. On the contrary, it's quite useful — this is exactly the reaction used in the blinker puffer fuse. x = 5, y = 22, rule = B3/S2...

Probably not clean Herschels, no. (And sometimes you get just the "stage 3" that only releases one glider.) But they're the most frequent glider-creating reaction from 1st-order collisions with simple still lifes at least… OK, running 16 10×10 soups. 10 gliders observed from Herschels; 15 from all o...

I was first introduced to Life in the early 90s by my father, who had found LifeLab from either online or potentially some colleague in simulation (he's a chemist). I frequently tinkered around the program during my (pre)teens but never got much done. I belive I found the 3c/7 "swimmer" independantl...

Two very preliminary thoughs. 1) The fluff database is probably going to be dominated by reactions that output a Herschel in some direction, with secondary contributions from block-and-gliders, octominoes, and possibly the tail-ends of Rs. 2) This kind of database sounds like it might be useful for ...

The emergence of circular motion got me thinking why is reversibility considered such an important criterion in academic CA research. Obviously, a goal here is to understand our own universe, which appears to be reversible at micro-scales. However, it seems to me that a kind of reversibility could w...

OK, a small sampling of 36 stabilizing turmites and dropping them in chaos turns out the following results: Oscillators — 4 immediately stabilize with the same end result, one of them allowing for a small variation though. — 9 erase some room until they stabilize. At least 3 could end up in stabiliz...

Turmites that are predictable from the very start (like a runaway turmite that only writes black and goes forward when it encounters black) could do other things when it encounters other colors. They could be very well a very busy beaver. This is a particularly intersting thought, and makes me wond...

This rule is approximately identical in behavior to plain 0/23/6 though (and in turn also very much like a longer-winded version of 0/23/5 and 0/23/4). I'm not sure what the alleged "interesting global properties" are, but I don't think they're in any way particular to this rule?

I'll 3up you on that. ☾ :wink: Here's a collection of common natural honey farm precedessors, organized according to the three main paths of development: x = 63, y = 65, rule = B3/S23 36b3o$35bo3bo$34bo5bo$35bo3bo$36b3o6$37bo$35b2ob2o$35b2ob2o$35b2ob2o$ 37bo6$37bo$36bobo$35b2ob2o$36bobo$37bo6$29bo7b...

B2/S356 Generations rules turn out to have a *tiny* natural gun:

I've spent a bit of time searching for things that react with *WSSes, without finding anything other than the odd exotic eater. Most of the time I feed it gliders, or collisions between gliders and small objects. The "holy grail" I'd like to find is a small stable 90 degree reflector. Have you trie...

OK, here's a few. Two honeyfarm reaction running 10722 generations: x = 13, y = 9, rule = B3/S23 11bo$10b2o$10bobo$11bo2$3o$2bo$o$bo! Fuse (→ R + 2 blinkers) running 6634 generations: x = 15, y = 14, rule = B3/S23 12bo$12bo$11bobo$10bo3bo$9bo$8bo$7bo$6bo$5bo$4bo$3bo$2bo$bo$o! Thunderbird-based dieha...

As far as I can see C implies B. Consider this pattern: x = 13, y = 13, rule = B3/S23 4bo$3bobo$3bob3o$b2o5bo$o6bobo$b2o3bobobo$2bo2bobo2bo$2bobobo3b2o$3bobo6bo$4bo5b 2o$5b3obo$7bobo$8bo! Any still life where this one appears as a subpattern is tied, because the middle tub can be removed and the re...