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A word of advice. Generations rules without B2 generally aren't interesting This is a bit overstated (sort of in the same way as "Life-like rules with B2 generally aren't interesting"); there are plenty of interesting A2 Generations rules, though you usually need to set up some more aggressive birt...

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This type of behavior is shared by quite a few rules in the same region. One interesting variant is B28, which creates "tunnels" instead of "crystals", for a quilt-like final result. There are also "block-filling rules", i.e. variants on B1/S34. These tend to quickly stabilize to crystals built from...

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It's clear that LifeWiki and LifeForum are two important prongs of the current CGOL community, but I suspect they could be closer to each other yet. An initial suggestion: would it be possible to create here a [wiki][/wiki] tag that would automatically generate links to LifeWiki in forum posts? I.e....

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OP's question, reframed: – A Life-like CA is defined by the presence of some birth/survival conditions and the absense of others. – Any pattern (spaceship, oscillator, etc.) in a Life-like CA will require some of these conditions to function, but not necessarily all. For example, a blinker will only...

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I'm attempting to make sense of the precise motivation behind X-Rule and its "precedessor" (alphabetic ordering of transition environments is terrible for this!), but it's apparent that this is, in terms of its grown type, a more heavily "de-totalized" version of the SansDomino rule class . The smal...

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You guys should sticky a thread for people just getting caught up with where the field is today. Which field? [liѕt] Let's subgroup that a bit further: ENGINEERING Glider synthesis Glider color and phase, relating to reflections Construction with slow salvos (p2, monochromatic, mod N, etc.) One-tim...

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The two SW-most octants (including the diagonal (x+y = 1) are trivial; everything sufficiently far away NE, starting with (1, 1) being 4, follows from the c/4 diagonal speed limit theorem. That doesn't seem to leave a whole lot of edge cases really.

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This is not quite the same as naming individual patterns, but, two terms for families of still lifes that I have kind-of proposed on LifeWiki sometime ago: 1) the family {tub, barge, long barge…; boat, long boat, long long boat…; ship, long ship, long long ship…} I call vessels ; 2) the family {snak...

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That is a real problem with the state of modern-day Life. It might be useful to have a "User's manual to Life" that contains all the information one needs to start contributing at a high level. The Life wiki's a great start, perhaps that could be leveraged? Good idea. The problem is getting anyone ...

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As far as I've looked into this matter before (or some concepts resembling it), soup propagation speed in Life is almost always lightspeed for connected clusters of cells, and dominated by cluster growth rate outside of them. This makes things very sensitive to the "cloud count" and geometry of the ...

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To use a hyperbolic plane, one would need to set up a new system of nearest neighbors, and the rule would no longer be the well-researched Life we know.. Perhaps 4-coordinated pentagonal, or 3-coordinated heptagonal or octagonal rules on hyperbolic geometry would do incredible things.. I've done so...

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A small 2c/205 spaceship in a Generations rule.

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x = 3, y = 4, rule = 2378/34/3
3A$2BA$2BA$3A!

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Rules that are approximately B34/S23, possibly with some additional higher-end birth/survival conditions (B7, B8, S7, S8), have the interesting trait that they allow still lifes — but only a seemingly finite variety. (Life-like rules of this family are explosive in character, but in Generations they...

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I was also searching for very nearly exploding rules with S1 (but without S2). I tried some rules with S13 and eventually found B3578/S0138 to be the best rule of this type. The Sidewinder works here, as well as more exotic ships. This is a pretty good case, yes. The rule seems to have a very clear...

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A weird thing I noticed in B124/S34 recently. (Much of these effects will work in plain B12/S3 too.) This is one of the 2×2 rules, where any pattern separated in 2×2 on/off segments will continue to evolve as such. And adding a small perturbation in a 2×2 area will quickly devolve into regular chaos...

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Nice classifications... I think I'll refer from these classifications from later on. For now, it's more of a typology. The list doesn't really cover all "non-trivial" oscillators, nor does it create a clean ranking. I think sticking with the old definitions and rather developing the "engine" concep...

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Extrementhusiast wrote:
simsim314 wrote:While ago I've designed Serpinsky glider gun
Slight variation on that:

New project proposal: a puffer that creates an infinite series of either of these

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Junk gets pushed 3 cells in 27 generations:

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x = 19, y = 12, rule = LifeHistory
14.C2.D$13.C.CD.D$15.C2.D$12.3C3D$3.A9.C2.D$3.3A$A.2A.2A$A2.A2.A$4.2A
2$.A.A$2.2A!

Expensive glider support for regenerating this would probably be possible.

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I wanted to combine two to cancel out some of their debris and maybe make a spaceship similar in style to the early Corderships, but I could only find two reactions that really did anything: Here are other two: And for completeness, a fifth reaction is: x = 33, y = 18, rule = B3/S23 20bo7bo$19b3o5b...

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Flyby conversions:

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x = 22, y = 21, rule = B3/S23
18bo$17bobo$14bo$13bo4b2o$12b2o4bobo$13b2o2bo2b2o$14bo2bo2bo$18b2o2$
18b2o$14bo2bo2bo$13b2o2bo2b2o$12b2o4bobo$13bo4b2o$14bo$17bobo$18bo2$b
2o4b2o4b2o$o2bo2bobo4bobo$b2o4bo6bo!

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Maybe it's because I'm new, but it's not clear to me what I should get excited about and what is considered unimpressive. For example, is a 8x6, initial pop = 11, generations = 15000 more or less impressive than 11x4, initial pop 10, generations = 15000? No idea how those stack against one another,...

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I've been noticing whenever I put a fractal into the game of life, it either comes out with nothing.... or if tweaked just right, it can come out with a ton more population. Does this happen for all fractals? You seem to be using some non-standard definition of "fractal". The files you posted are s...

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1) I'm not sure if this should be considered as a p2 combo or a new rotor. The rotor is basically 2 copies of the spark coil, but the stators of the spark coil cannot be welded into sth like this. x = 10, y = 9, rule = B3/S23 b2o4bo$bobo2bobo$3bo2bo2bo$2bob2ob2o$2bob2obo$b2o4bo$o2bo2bo$bobo2bobo $2...

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By the way, can anybody build a p420 2c/5 gun? That would require speeding up the assembly itself a little bit. The current synthesis scheme just barely cannot handle being squeezed to p420 (the limit is p427). I haven't looked if this could be fixed just by tightening the salvos a little though or...

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...which made me think, how long until we start seeing soups which produce the c/7 loafer etc. in Life? I would guess somewhere between 10^11 and 10^13 soups. Also, anyone got any guesses as to what the next 'natural' spaceship (after glider, *WSS and combinations of 2 interaction *WSSs) will be? U...

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