Scot Ellison

Scot Ellison is a Life enthusiast who works to reduce the bounding boxes of glider guns and has discovered small period oscillators.

December 2002, Karel's p15 can be made to thin a glider stream to one third its previous frequency.
April 2003, two-beehive glider-to-Herschel guns. Many of these retain the record for the smallest bounding box for their respective periods. This includes the period 413 glider gun.
May 2007, 17-column heavyweight volcano that reduces the bounding box for many glider guns.
June 2008, Scot's p5 that is a small period 5 oscillator.
April 2010, p4 HW emulator hybrid that reduces the bounding box for Period-36 glider gun.
July 2011, swine that formerly had the highest volatility of any known period 5 oscillator.

Patterns found by Scot Ellison