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Excellent idea. The instant result showing is very convenient. I bet this will cause an influx of solutions to destroy these puzzles.
The thing is, though, that I use a laptop with no mousewheel. Could you make a way to change the still life without a mousewheel?

I was thinking "The generation when the methuselah stabilizes is when it contains only guns, spaceships, and oscillators (including still lifes, because they are period 1 oscillators at heart) but the puffer thing kills all that. :cry: So maybe we can kill the puffer problem by saying "Any pattern t...

One word: Great idea.
Or was that two?

Well, discoveries are hard to make. GoL has been around for decades, all the good stuff you can get with a laptop and limited programming abilities has already been taken.