User:Testitemqlstudop/POTY2019 Nominations
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- David Hilbert, the first p23 and different oscillator period in half a decade (Luka Okanishi and Aidan F. Pierce)
- Glider syntheses, both of which spanned a large period of time and collective effort, providing an effective lower bound for bit counts in synthesisable still lifes
- Remini, a universal constructor based puffer, purely made with p30 technology. (Michael Simkin)
- Spider syntheses - the largest elementary spaceship syntheses to date, and the first syntheses of a c/5 spaceship (original syntheses by Martin Grant, with reductions by many)
- 47575M and relatives, a record-breaking non-switch-engine-based methuselah (Adam P. Goucher)
- Dueling banjos. used to drastically reduce many gun periods (Apple Bottom)
- 66P13 and variations, allowing for bumpers and other mechanisms (Bullet51 and Aidan F. Pierce)
- Mountain range patterns, patterns exhibiting irregular and inconsistent growth (Dean Hickerson)
- Stable variant of cyclotron (Goldtiger997, with earlier work by Dean Hickerson, Paul Callahan and Adam P. Goucher)
- Knightwave stabilization, allowing for an infinite amount of distinct knightships (Matthias Merzenich)
- 230P8, high-clearance p8 domino sparker (Fredrick Johansson, wildmyron on forums)
- 46P4H1V0 synthesis and gun (Tanner Jacobi, Matthias Merzenich, Martin Grant, and Goldtiger997)
- R49, a very useful and compact pre-Herschel turner/advancer (Entity Valkyrie, Luka Okanishi)
- p49 skewed pulsar hassler by Martin Grant (based on a glider-supported version found by Jason Summers which was mentioned by Matthias Merzenich), the first known p49 that isn't a glider loop.
- New gun designs
- Systematic survey of small patterns particularly Bunnies 10a which broke a long-standing record for population 10 methuselahs.
- p250 c/10 orthogonal rake by christoph r, the first c/10 rake with a period below 320, as well as the lowest period so far achieved for a c/10 rake.
- Slavic, the current smallest universal-constructor based quadratic growth. (Pavel Grankovskiy)
- Scholar, second elementary 2c/7, discovered with the novel search program lsss (Andrew Wade)