OCA talk:Life without death

Still lifes

I'll run the still life counts when I get to my real computer tomorrow and update that section accordingly. Nathaniel 15:11, 14 June 2009 (UTC)

Did anything ever become of this? Sounds interesting. --Tropylium 08:08, 18 February 2012 (CST)

Small seeds

Seed patterns of radius up to ten typically evolve into a still life.

(Emphasis mine.) Doesn't really look like they do. Sure, straight lines up to 10 all stabilize, but looking at eg. polyominos in the L, F and S series, almost everything from 5 on explodes chaotically (with the exception of the F-hexomino and S-pentomino). A few dozen 5×5 soups I tested all exploded as well.

More symmetric seeds seem to have better odds of stabilizing tho — the Z-pentomino is stable, the Z-heptomino and 10 thru 12-minos become still lifes, and the Z-hexomino becomes two ladders; the smallest 3×n rectangle that explodes is n=15, tho quite a few sprout a few ladders. --Tropylium 08:05, 18 February 2012 (CST)

Character

I heard that LwoD is an EXPANDING universe(sorry about the capitals), not an exploding one.-wwei23