Your birth pattern

[Saka]

What pattern is closest to the day you were born? Not just the date, but also the year.

Mine is 160P10H2V0, which was discovered in November 2004. Anybody know the exact date?

[drc]

Blom, which was found sometimes in July 2002. Again, I'd like to know the exact date. If it's July 30th I'll flip.

[GUYTU6J]

Boojum reflector found in April 2001.

[praosylen]

Boojum reflector found in April 2001.

Same. Except for maybe the patterns found on an unspecified date in 2001, and possibly something in late 2000 that I didn't check.

[gmc_nxtman]

What pattern is closest to the day you were born? Not just the date, but also the year.

Mine is 160P10H2V0, which was discovered in November 2004. Anybody know the exact date?

Mine might be the same, or B29 which was found in September (I was born in October 2004).

[M. I. Wright]

Cool idea! Looks like there isn't anything notable from October 2001, so mine would have to be Gabriel Nivasch's tremi- and quasi-pseudo SLs from July of that year. Kind of weird to know that this hobby was being actively researched & developed this long before I had the faintest idea what it was.

Looks like anyone over 48 is out of luck, by the way

[Saka]

Looks like anyone over 48 is out of luck, by the way

I don't think anybody here is that old. Except Bullet51.

[muzik]

Probably 50P35

[Bullet51]

Fermat prime calculator.

Looks like anyone over 48 is out of luck, by the way

I don't think anybody here is that old.

[drc]

I don't think anybody here is that old.

triller and rowett are, at least.

[dvgrn]

I don't think anybody here is that old.

triller and rowett are, at least.

Most of the people who were doing Life stuff in the 1990s are probably older than that now, unless they started really young. That would mean pretty much everybody who you might recognize from the Life Lexicon credits from a dozen years ago, many of whom have accounts on the conwaylife forums, though most of them don't post too much: David Bell, Paul Callahan, Dean Hickerson, Hartmut Holzwart, Heinrich Koenig, Mark Niemiec, Tom Rokicki, Andrew Trevorrow, Bill Gosper, etc.

I'm a latecomer to the Life scene -- only got really properly started in the current millenium, not the last one, with one brief exception in the early 1980's -- but I'm pretty close to that old.

I wasn't around for the discovery of the glider, which was actually sometime in 1969 if you read Conway's biography, even though he rounded all the Life discovery stuff to 1970. But I do predate the first glider gun by somewhat over half a year.

Not sure when Conway got around to following the life histories of all the heptominoes, there isn't a very good timeline for those early investigations -- but let's just say that my birth pattern is the (sadly misnamed) Herschel.

[Rhombic]

The p15 pre-pulsar spaceship (Dec 1997)

[_zM]

Gabriel's p138. However, if 98P25 was found just one day before it, it would have been found on my birthday.

[fluffykitty]

A spaceship.

[Saka]

A spaceship.

Which one exactly??

[gameoflifemaniac]

Mine is 26-cell quadratic growth:

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#N 26-cell quadratic growth
#O Nick Gotts
#C A 26-cell pattern that exhibits quadratic growth (the smallest known such pattern).
#C www.conwaylife.com/wiki/index.php?title=26-cell_quadratic_growth
x = 16193, y = 15089, rule = B3/S23
b2o$2o$bo29$16bo$15bobo$15bo$14bo15024$16187bo3bo$16188bobo$16189bo2bo
$16192bo$16192bo21$16159bo$16160bo$16161bo$16160bo$16159bo$16161b3o!

[calcyman]

There were zero B3/S23 patterns announced on the day of my birth. Instead, my birth was accompanied by three HighLife patterns:

Dean Hickerson's p72 HighLife gun:

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#C p72 glider gun
x = 43, y = 33, rule = B36/S23
2o$2o2$13b3o$12bo2bo$11bo3bo$11bo2bo$11b3o8$25b3o$24bo2bo$23bo3bo$23bo
2bo$23b3o3b3o$28bo2bo$27bo3bo$27bo2bo$27b3o3b3o$32bo2bo3b2o$31bo3bo3b
2o$31bo2bo$31b3o$40bo$41b2o$39b2o$31b2o8bo$31b2o!

Alan Hensel's HighLife line puffer:

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x = 18, y = 156, rule = B36/S23
3bo$3b3o$5b2o$6bo$6bobo$8b3o$6bo3bo$8bobo2$9b3o$10b2o$9b3o$4b2obo$5bob
2obo$4b2ob2o2bo$7bo3bo$7bobo2bo$11b3o$4b2obo3b2o$7bo2b2o$9b2o$8bo$6b3o
$2bo6bobo$bobo2bob5o$3bobo6b2o$7b2o4b2o$7bo3bobo$4b2o$4b2o6b2o$5b2o3bo
2bo$5b2ob2o2bo$3b2o7bo$4b6obo$b4o3bo$6b2o2b3o$3bob2o4b3o$5bo$13bo$2b3o
5bo2bo$4b3o3bobobo$5bobo5bobo$5bobo7bo$8bo4b3o$5bob2o3b2o$9b2o$4bo2bob
2o$6b2o2bo$5bobob3o$2bo4b2o4b2o$o2b4o2bobo3bo$2bo2bob6o3bo$bobo2b2obo
6bo$5bo3b2o3b3o$3bo2b2o2bo4bo$6bo2b2o4bo$4bobob2o6bo$9b4o2b3o$6bob2o2b
o2b2o$6bo4bo2b2o$4bo4b2ob3o$5bo$5bo$5bobobob3o$5bobo2bo2b3o$5bo4bobo3b
o$5bo3bo2b2o3bo$5bobo2b2obo3bo$5bo3bo2b2o3bo$5bo4bobo3bo$5bobo2bo2b3o$
5bobobob3o$5bo$5bobobob3o$5bobo2bo2b3o$5bo4bobo3bo$5bo3bo2b2o3bo$5bobo
2b2obo3bo$5bo3bo2b2o3bo$5bo4bobo3bo$5bobo2bo2b3o$5bobobob3o$5bo$5bo$5b
obobob3o$5bobo2bo2b3o$5bo4bobo3bo$5bo3bo2b2o3bo$5bobo2b2obo3bo$5bo3bo
2b2o3bo$5bo4bobo3bo$5bobo2bo2b3o$5bobobob3o$5bo$5bo$4bo4b2ob3o$6bo4bo
2b2o$6bob2o2bo2b2o$9b4o2b3o$4bobob2o6bo$6bo2b2o4bo$3bo2b2o2bo4bo$5bo3b
2o3b3o$bobo2b2obo6bo$2bo2bob6o3bo$o2b4o2bobo3bo$2bo4b2o4b2o$5bobob3o$
6b2o2bo$4bo2bob2o$9b2o$5bob2o3b2o$8bo4b3o$5bobo7bo$5bobo5bobo$4b3o3bob
obo$2b3o5bo2bo$13bo$5bo$3bob2o4b3o$6b2o2b3o$b4o3bo$4b6obo$3b2o7bo$5b2o
b2o2bo$5b2o3bo2bo$4b2o6b2o$4b2o$7bo3bobo$7b2o4b2o$3bobo6b2o$bobo2bob5o
$2bo6bobo$6b3o$8bo$9b2o$7bo2b2o$4b2obo3b2o$11b3o$7bobo2bo$7bo3bo$4b2ob
2o2bo$5bob2obo$4b2obo$9b3o$10b2o$9b3o2$8bobo$6bo3bo$8b3o$6bobo$6bo$5b
2o$3b3o$3bo!

Replicator-based oscillator by Dean Hickerson:

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x = 67, y = 67, rule = B36/S23
10b2o$9bo2bo$10bobo$8b2obo$8b3o$8b2o3$3b3o$bob3o5b3o$obobo5bo2bo$o2bo
5bo3bo$b2o6bo2bo$9b3o4$19b3o$18bo2bo$17bo3bo$17bo2bo$17b3o3b3o$22bo2bo
$21bo3bo$21bo2bo$21b3o4$31b3o$30bo2bo$29bo3bo$29bo2bo$29b3o3b3o$34bo2b
o$33bo3bo$33bo2bo$33b3o4$43b3o$42bo2bo$41bo3bo$41bo2bo$41b3o3b3o$46bo
2bo$45bo3bo$45bo2bo$45b3o4$55b3o$54bo2bo6b2o$53bo3bo5bo2bo$53bo2bo5bob
obo$53b3o5b3obo$61b3o3$57b2o$56b3o$55bob2o$54bobo$54bo2bo$55b2o!

[83bismuth38]

APPARENTLY, I was born when the Telegraph was invented. if it's the 11th, WHOOH, that's me alright.

[lifeisawesome]

88P28, though it's 131 days late.

[Saka]

88P28, though it's 131 days late.

10 years old???

[skomick]

I was born in November of 1975, so according to the LifeWiki, the closest discovery would have been the Unix found by David Buckingham in February of 1976.

[Tom Mazanec]

Looks like anyone over 48 is out of luck, by the way

I don't think anybody here is that old. Except Bullet51.

March 5, 1958 for me.
I dabbled with Life on an Apple ][ Plus (and learned programming on punch cards...each punch machine was defective in its own way).

[otismo]

I was born on November 15, 1952

William Herschel was born on same date in 1738

ALSO Erwin Rommel in 1891

AND Petula Clark, 1932

"I Couldn't Live Without Your Love"

I guess I am just going to have to discover something...

Cheers !

[Trump {Bot}]

I was born on 6/14/1946, and Conway Game Of Life wasn't invented then!!!!!

[Hunting]

Bill Gosper

Wait, Bill Gosper have account here?

Mine is Scot's p5, and Eve is exactly one month late.