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This is the Very Timely™ voting thread for this year's OCA Discovery of the Year.

The voting period ends on October 1st, at whatever hour I get around to it (so waiting 'till the last second to vote is not recommended).

The nomination thread can be found here.

• #01: Various engineering feats (RRO, adjustable-slope ship, speed orthogonoid, Minsky register machines and √2 calculator) in B2-ae3aceky4jkr5ijny6e/S1c2aci3-ir4cekrtwz5-aijr (by mystical)
• #02: A subset of whitespace characterized by large spiral patterns (by jimmyChen2013)
• #03: Greyspace, a rulespace where the whitespace spacefiller leaves a less dense agar (by many)
• #04: some interesting counter patterns, including a record 2-cell methuselah (by toroidalet and yujh)
• #05: an interesting engineered spaceship in WWEJ3 (by toroidalet)
• #06: A very small computer in Semaphore (note: not the one from 2023) (by _zM)
• #07: The Bazaar rulespace (by NimbleRogue)
• #08: Fast, small, adjustible-slope spaceships (by kiho park)
• #09: 123456 Several replicator-based spaceships (by many)
• #10: Universal computer + constructor in Flow6 (by Redstoneboi)
• #11: A single rule with a small splitter, adjustable-slope spaceship, and SMOS (by FWKnightship)
• #12: Naturally occurring c/395 orthogonal spaceship in B36a/S235y, a rule two transitions away from Life (by Carson Cheng)
• #13: New discoveries in B38/S23 (by many)
• #14: A 6803c/403840 diagonal spaceship (by dani)
• #15: Hexagonal neighborhood progress (by many)
• #16: XOR replicator omniperiodicity research + adjustible replicators + many new regular and irregular replicators (by many)
• #17: OT spaceship progress (by many)
• #18: VN spaceship progress, particularly in B0 (by many)
• #19: 5s progress (by many)
• #20: OT universal computation progress (by many)
• #21: Slide sqrtgun from soup (by LaundryPizza03)
• #22: Research into the simplest Sir Robin gun in Life-emulating multistate rules (by confocaloid and toroidalet)
• #23: WWEJ3 replicator, metapixel (by wirehead)
• #24: Izhora (FireWorld computer) (by Yoel)

Vote only for the patterns you like, and give each of them 1, 2, or 3 stars depending on how much you like them. You can vote for your own patterns if you want. Here is an example vote:

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Cyclotrons wrote: ↑

September 1st, 2023, 8:05 am

This is the Very Timely™ voting thread for this year's OCA Discovery of the Year.

The voting period ends on October 1st, at whatever hour I get around to it (so waiting 'till the last second to vote is not recommended).

The nomination thread can be found here.

• #01: Various engineering feats (RRO, adjustable-slope ship, speed orthogonoid, Minsky register machines and √2 calculator) in B2-ae3aceky4jkr5ijny6e/S1c2aci3-ir4cekrtwz5-aijr (by mystical)
• #02: A subset of whitespace characterized by large spiral patterns (by jimmyChen2013)
• #03: Greyspace, a rulespace where the whitespace spacefiller leaves a less dense agar (by many)
• #04: some interesting counter patterns, including a record 2-cell methuselah (by toroidalet and yujh)
• #05: an interesting engineered spaceship in WWEJ3 (by toroidalet)
• #06: A calculator built in a rule made specifically for chip design, with a CA-based UI (by Lode)
• #07: A very small computer in Semaphore (note: not the one from 2023) (by _zM)
• #08: The Bazaar rulespace (by NimbleRogue)
• #09: Fast, small, adjustible-slope spaceships (by kiho park)
• #10: 123456 Several replicator-based spaceships (by many)
• #11: Universal computer + constructor in Flow6 (by Redstoneboi)
• #12: A single rule with a small splitter, adjustable-slope spaceship, and SMOS (by FWKnightship)
• #13: Naturally occurring c/395 orthogonal spaceship in B36a/S235y, a rule two transitions away from Life (by Carson Cheng)
• #14: New discoveries in B38/S23 (by many)
• #15: A 6803c/403840 diagonal spaceship (by dani)

Vote only for the patterns you like, and give each of them 1, 2, or 3 stars depending on how much you like them. You can vote for your own patterns if you want. Here is an example vote:

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Is this list complete and correct? Probably this huge stuff had been enumerated somehow (?): viewtopic.php?f=11&t=5909#p155511

I believe that you should rethink and at least extend the nominated entries. To nominate is a duty of the community - see the cited entries. To organize the entries, that belongs to the organizers.

Currently the final entries seems to be rather incomplete to me, if it is not subjective and you agree to me, then feel free to drop a like!

Naszvadi wrote: ↑

September 1st, 2023, 8:42 am

Is this list complete and correct? Probably this huge stuff had been enumerated somehow (?): viewtopic.php?f=11&t=5909#p155511

I believe that you should rethink and at least extend the nominated entries. To nominate is a duty of the community - see the cited entries. To organize the entries, that belongs to the organizers.

Currently the final entries seems to be rather incomplete to me, if it is not subjective and you agree to me, then feel free to drop a like!

But I thought those weren't submissions...? Added anyway.

Though I am wary of having 'progress' type submissions. I still included them, but basically identical entries across several years seems rather against the spirit of this whole exercise, no?

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Thanks for doing this. I had one suggestion, but since people have started to vote already, it might be too confusing to change them now. I think it would be a good idea to rename #15 (hexagonal neighborhood progress) to "spaceships in hexagonal Life-like rules", or split that off as its own entry. That really was most of the aforementioned progress, and it hadn't been explored very much previously.
Also, maybe we should change the scale to 5 stars next year. As entertaining as it may be to watch the XOTY competitions slowly diverge until they become unrecognizable, that would confuse people.

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The voting period is over! The count will be done using the archive here.

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Cyclotrons wrote: ↑

September 1st, 2023, 8:05 am

(so waiting 'till the last second to vote is not recommended)

Oh well

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October 1st, 2023, 5:33 pm

The voting period is over! The count will be done using the archive here.

Y'know, I kinda deserved that.

Results:

#01: 0 + 3 + 3 + 3 + 1 + 3 + 3 + 0 = 16
#02: 1 + 2 + 0 + 2 + 0 + 1 + 0 + 2 = 8
#03: 1 + 2 + 1 + 2 + 0 + 1 + 0 + 1 = 8
#04: 2 + 3 + 3 + 2 + 0 + 0 + 3 + 3 = 16
#05: 0 + 2 + 0 + 1 + 0 + 3 + 0 + 2 = 8
#06: 0 + 3 + 1 + 2 + 0 + 3 + 2 + 3 = 14
#07: 1 + 0 + 0 + 2 + 0 + 2 + 2 + 2 = 9
#08: 3 + 2 + 3 + 3 + 1 + 3 + 2 + 3 = 20
#09: 1 + 2 + 2 + 2 + 0 + 0 + 3 + 2 = 12
#10: 0 + 3 + 1 + 2 + 0 + 3 + 0 + 2 = 11
#11: 2 + 1 + 1 + 3 + 0 + 2 + 1 + 2 = 12
#12: 1 + 2 + 0 + 3 + 0 + 0 + 0 + 2 = 8
#13: 0 + 1 + 3 + 3 + 0 + 0 + 2 + 3 = 12
#14: 3 + 2 + 1 + 2 + 1 + 1 + 0 + 3 = 13
#15: 0 + 1 + 0 + 2 + 3 + 0 + 0 + 0 = 6
#16: 2 + 2 + 2 + 2 + 1 + 0 + 0 + 0 = 9
#17: 0 + 1 + 1 + 2 + 1 + 0 + 0 + 0 = 5
#18: 0 + 0 + 0 + 1 + 3 + 0 + 0 + 0 = 4
#19: 1 + 1 + 1 + 2 + 1 + 0 + 2 + 1 = 9
#20: 0 + 2 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 0 + 0 + 1 = 9
#21: 0 + 0 + 0 + 3 + 0 + 0 + 3 + 3 = 9
#22: 0 + 0 + 0 + 3 + 0 + 0 + 0 + 1 = 4
#23: 0 + 3 + 1 + 2 + 0 + 3 + 0 + 0 = 9
#24: 0 + 0 + 0 + 2 + 0 + 2 + 3 + 1 = 8

Please say something if you notice a mistake.

Order:
1st - #08
2nd - #01 and #04
3rd - #06
4th - #14
5th - #09, #11, and #13
6th - #10
7th - #07, #16, #19, #20, #21, and #23
8th - #02, #03, #05, #12, and #24
9th - #15
10th - #17
11th - #18 and #22