User:C28/POTY 2023 Nominee list

Nominee list

#01 Walrus: The first known spaceship with a speed of c/8 diagonal. found by Adam P. Goucher

#02 p24 gliderless LWSS gun: It has the lowest period of all the known gliderless LWSS guns. found by Matthias Merzenich

#03 (2,1)c/6 knightship tagalong: It's a surprisingly small tagalong given how long ago Sir Robin was discovered. found by Darren Li

#04 Charity's p25: It's the first known strictly volatile period-25 oscillator. found by Charity Engine

#05 Crotchet ship pseudo-Heisenburp: It's a nice contraption to detect the presence of certain types of c/3 spaceships. found by David Bell

#06 p13 domino sparker oscillator: It's the first p13 domino sparker with enough clearance to be useful. found by Mitchell Riley

#07 0° colour-preserving reflector: A useful conduit that shifts a glider onto another lane without affecting its colour. found by mvr

#08 Synthesis of a Spacefiller: It's the first ever synthesis of a spacefiller. found by Goldtiger997

#09 The Great Oscillator Discovery Project: The project continued into this year, getting a massive W by filling in the remaining missing periods and proving that Conway's Game of Life is omniperiodic. David Raucci, Mitchell Riley, Luke Kiernan, iNoMed, Nico Brown, Carson Cheng, Matthias Merzenich, et al.

#10 New smallest guns: Various record-breaking guns have been found this year like the p52 Two-glider octomino gun, the Period-68 glider gun, the period-61 glider gun, an engine-based p59 gun, the Period-41 glider gun, and the Period-201 glider gun. Mitchell Riley, iNoMed, Matthias Merzenich, Nico Brown

#11 49P384: A high-period oscillator which was shockingly small for its period, and its finding led to the discovery of various high-period SKOPs. found by Mitchell Riley and Period1GliderGun

#12 Period-2^18 WireWorld metacell: Found by conwaylife forum user "blah", This pattern emulates a cell in the WireWorld rule.

#13 42P38: The smallest known period-38 oscillator, beating Raucci's p38 by 2 cells. found by Mitchell Riley

#14 New linestretchers (c/4d, c/5d), barberpole stretchers (c/4d, c/5d), tubstretchers (c/4d, c/6d), and greystretchers (4c/8o, c/5o, c/4o, c/3o, 2c/5o): Stretchers of various new speeds. all found by Keith Amling and Frank Everdij

#15 Mold on fire-spitting: An amazing SKOP, utilizing a property of fire-spitting that had gone mostly unnoticed until then. found by Period1GliderGun

#16 The (34,7)c/156 Caterpillar: An engineered spaceship based on the (34,7)c/156 Herschel climber reaction. found by AbhpzTa

#17 Cribbage: The first period-19 oscillator to be discovered, which got us one step closer to proving B3/S23 was Omniperiodic. found by Mitchell Riley

#18 Smaller solution to the Unique father problem: A 278-cell still life that satisfies the Unique father problem, first posed in 1972. found by 400spartans

#19 The p41 glider loop: Its discovery was massive, filling in the final hole in the list of known oscillator periods and proving that Life was omniperiodic. found by Nico Brown

#20 Period-41 glider gun: found 1 day after the glider loop, it's the first gun of period 41. found by iNoMed

#21 New pulse dividers: conduits that divide a glider stream by 5, 6, 11, 12, 6n+4, 6n+25 or 6n+26, and 6n+34 or 6n+35. found by Evin, Disaster16439, and confocaloid

#22 p76 pi-heptomino shuttle: A shuttle with transparent beehives, it beats out the p76 pi-heptomino hassler by 5 cells. found by Carson Cheng

#23 5-glider synthesis of Amphisbaena: The discovery of the synthesis proved that every still life up to 11 cells can be synthesised with no more than 5 gliders. found by Alex Greason

#24 Various new SKOPs: So many new record-breaking oscillators were discovered this year, like the P68 century hassler, 44P49, p26 honey farm hassler, p126 R-pentomino hassler, p140 two-glider octomino hassler, 86P107, and more. Mitchell Riley, Nico Brown, Carson Cheng, iNoMed, et al.

#25 The Glider to chaos converter from November: This one led to the discovery of so many G-to-X converters. found by Mitchell Riley

#26 New Engine-based oscillators: Various new oscillators, like 94P53, the p280 U-turner hassler, the p78 pi-heptomino hassler, and the p81 pi-heptomino hassler that aren't based on a signal loop or an LCM. Mitchell Riley, Nico Brown, Christopher D'Agostino, Caleb R. Hilton, iNoMed, Carson Cheng, et al.

#27 Ultra long-lived Engineered diehards: This year an explosion of diehard discoveries were made, culminating in a pattern that lives for 17^^^3 generations before dying out. found by various people

#28 p41 pi-heptomino hassler: The first known engine-based period-41 oscillator. found by Nico Brown

#29 1413-tick diehard: It's the longest-lived diehard that isn't engineered. found by Charity Engine

#30 HBK caterpillar: Built on the half-bakery reaction, it's the fastest spaceship of its type, achieving a speed of (6,3)c/1024.

#31 Snark64: A 90° glider reflector that can be used to solve synchronization and glider color problems. found by Carson Cheng

#32 G-to-LWSS (2023): This is the smallest known stable glider to lightweight spaceship converter. found by Luke Kiernan

#33 Stable Storage Spaceship: This is the first known spaceship that purely consists of a glider hitting a stable constellation in at least one of its phases. found by Goldtiger997

#34 Still life synthesis reductions: Optimizations to still life syntheses have led to the completion of the 11-in-5, 15-in-10, and 17-in-15 projects. Alex Greason, Carson Cheng, Goldtiger997, May13, GUYTU6J, et al.

#35 Odd traffic stop: A p2 phase-shifting catalyst that enabled the discovery of multiple odd-period oscillators. found by Nico Brown

#36 Cleaner Boojum reflector catalyst: By adding a catalyst to clean up the unwanted beehive in the boojum reflector, a series of useful G-to-X’s, including 180° glider reflectors with different timings, are discovered.

#37 c/3 against-the-grain greyships: The first c/3 greyship that travels perpendicular to the direction of the stripes. found by Keith Amling, Hartmut Holzwart, and Jason Summers

#38 G-to-pi_catalyst_(August_2023): A rare glider catalyst without bait objects, it converts a glider directly into a pi-heptomino, and can be used as a small beehive stopper and in a period-36 glider/pi hassler. found by Mitchell Riley

#39 Galumpher (forum link): A Spartan 180-degree 0hd reflector that is easier to construct than its alternative, the Jubjub reflector. found by affamatodidio