The goal is to find oscillators that have a maximal MxN bounding box, in an arbitrary rule with K states (where K can be anything, not just 2!!)AforAmpere wrote: ↑October 1st, 2023, 2:30 pmIs the goal to find them such that the initial bounding box never moves, or that the pattern never gets larger than an MxN box?
And while I do know the "canonical" form for an oscillator is the one with the minimum population or bounding box, you could just trivially say "this is the oscillator", with the oscillator in its largest phase (maximum bounding box, and then hooray, it never escapes its "initial" bounding box.
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Best bliptile (K=4) result so far:
5x4 = 14
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x = 5, y = 4, rule = Bliptile
CB2AC$AC2AB$A2.BA$3ACA!
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x = 12, y = 7, rule = Bliptile
5AC2A.ABA$C4AB3AB2A$BC.CBABAB2AC$5AB3ABAB$5AC2AB3A$C5ACB3AB$B6AC2ABA!
I updated the OP with results so far.