Adam P. Goucher

Adam P. Goucher
Born	Unknown
Residence	United Kingdom
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Adam P. Goucher (/gaʊt͡ʃə(ɹ)/ or /guʃe/) is a Life enthusiast currently residing in the United Kingdom.

Among his numerous contributions to the Game of Life were the construction of the Spartan universal computer-constructor and the P1 megacell. He also collaborated with Ivan Fomichev, Chris Cain and Dave Greene on the half-baked knightship, and found the first elementary knightship, Sir Robin, based on partial results by Tomas Rokicki.

He wrote the apgsearch soup searcher and the lifelib C++ library, devised the Life128 and vlife algorithms, and implemented and operates Catagolue.

Patterns found by Adam P. Goucher

0

• 0E0P metacell

4

• 47575M
• 487-tick reflector

9

• 90P51

B

• Birthday puffer

C

• Cloverleaf interchange
• Cthulhu

H

• Half-baked knightship
• Homer

O

• O(sqrt(log(t)))

P

• P1 megacell
• Period-40 glider gun
• Period-52 glider gun
• Period-59 glider gun
• Pi calculator
• Professor

R

• Rectifier
• Reverse caber-tosser

S

• Sawtooth 201
• Silverfish
• Sir Robin
• Spartan universal computer-constructor
• Sprayer

W

• Walrus

External links

• @apgox on Twitter
• Complex Projective 4-Space