Scorbie wrote:beacon + blinker precursor -> 2 pis -> 2 LWSSs with a lot of junk. Probably not useful.
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I'm not sure these soup results are going to count as "accidental discoveries" for much longer -- there are going to be so many of them!
Maybe they should have their own thread... but really I think it will take a little more organization than that, to get the server set up to collect larger volumes of data. It will also be good to have a way to retrieve the source soup for any unusual still life or oscillator (not just the top 50 or 100 highest scoring).
I'm already getting to where I'm a lot less interested in highest-scoring combination of two pulsars and an LWSS (for example) than in the unusual still lifes. There are dozens in every million-soup run, but there's quite a bit of overlap between runs -- I've seen the symmetrical 28-cell
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x = 10, y = 10, rule = B3/S23
5bo$4bobo$3bo2bo$2bob2ob2o$bobo2bo2bo$o2bo2bobo$b2ob2obo$3bo2bo$3bobo$
4bo!
a couple of times already, for example. So of course I'm really most interested in the still lifes that nobody has ever seen floating in the soup before... and for that we'll need a central server.
-- While I'm wishing, a central database of known glider constructions would be nice, too. I'm seeing a good scattering of 17- to 20-cell still lifes, for example -- but unless I know that one of them is very difficult to glider-construct or has no known recipe, it's most likely an easy known construction, so probably not worth going back to find the soup that the still life came from.