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Another tad more compact. And with perma-on-cells as glider eaters - I find perma-on-cell-eaters quite counterintuitive, therefore I like them: x = 20, y = 25, rule = extendedlife 14.2A$14.2A$8.FA$8.2A$4.F4$19.E5$8.A$7.A.A$6.A3.A$E5.A3.A$6.A3.A$7.A. A$8.A$15.F$10.2A$10.AF$4.2A$4.2A! And a small 4-ba...

As I mentioned in the "Accidental discoveries thread" I started a "screening" for oscillators. I got into it as I found WinLifeSearch 0.61 (by Jason Summers and Karel Suhajda, found here: http://entropymine.com/jason/life/software/ ), and tried if it would run under Wine/VBoxed WinXP. It worked in b...

Thanks, again! Seems I have to learn quite a lot about GoL, still. I've put together a simple oscillator analysis Life variant (it color-codes bushing, casing, and rotor cells). Just plain LifeHistory helps, too… Would you share your simple oscillator analysis Life variant? Or have you done that alr...

MilhinSA wrote:This behavior is very functional.
(do not laugh: Google is the translator and to blame for)

I didn't laugh, but understood neither.

(English is a foreign language for me, too - and sometimes I wonder how good my grasp of it is.)

Two syntheses of the patterns from the post above: Single Rake: x = 52, y = 47, rule = MilhinSA 48.AB$49.BA$42.A6.BA$41.3B3.B.BA$44.A2.B.BA$42.B.AB.B.BA$47.AB.BA$32. B8.B3.A5.B$34.B7.A3B5.B$32.2BA8.ABA3.B.A6$24.B$26.B$24.2BA6$16.B$18.B $16.2BA6$8.B$10.B$8.2BA6$B$2.B$2BA$24.B.B.B.A$21.B4.A3.B$13.2A2....

Thanks for the explanation, Tropylium. I did another search in the meantime, and another outstanding ugly p3 oscillator was found. If I'm not much mistaken, there are again 2 noninteracting rotors, and no interesting spark: x = 21, y = 21, rule = B3/S23 10bo2b2ob2o$5b2o2bobo2bobobo$3b3obo2bob2o4bo$b...

I played a bit with the signal circuits available in this thread, mainly Tropyliums. On the right side is a frequency halver which blocks each second incoming signal. At the top is a modified AND-gate, which is now a switchable p8-signal gun, switched on by two signals and of by one. x = 83, y = 125...

The lightspeed telegraph use beehive orthogonal fuse, don`t pull beehives. That probably depends on the definition of "pull beehives". If the fuse in question runs through the beehives the first time, it "pulls" them one field upwards, and one in they way it comes from. It's better visible in LifeH...

AFAIK there's much less interest in finding oscillators (at least, ones without useful sparks) than spaceships. Unless there's some humungous oscillator search collection out there I'm not aware of, there are probably much smaller p3s or p2s that have not been collected anywhere… Ah, thank you very...

The lightspeed-telegraph from the pattern collection provided with golly uses more or less a beehive-pull reaction to transmit its signals. See either the "Signal Circurity"-section for the complete telegraph or here for just the reaktion: x = 59, y = 9, rule = B3/S23 53bo$42b2ob2o4bo$b2o3b2o3b2o3b2...

I found out that WinLifeSearch v0.61 works in a VirtualBoxed Windows XP under Xubuntu. Unfortunately abysmally slow. Both was expectable. It also works fine in wine. These two findings where my accidental discoveries, however I found this p3 oscillators during the test runs: x = 35, y = 15, rule = B...

@Monocot - That is rare indeed, the HWSS makes a 90 degree turn using only three simple still life objects! The spare glider could concievably restore the original blocks and loaf by using Herschel conduits in order to make a stable reflector for a HWSS, but that would still require a large set of ...

Has anybody lately searched for the string "conways game of life" with google?
Well, do it now.

Glider+HWSS-spark=mess (R-pentomino and random stuff)

HWSS from pi-block-loaf: x = 18, y = 15, rule = B3/S23 15b2o$14bo2bo$14bobo$15bo7$2o$2o$10b3o$12bo$10b3o! I found this reaction pretty cool and played a bit with it, with a delayed HWSS-Rake-thingy in mind. Unfortunately, the glider-to-pi reactions I know of can't be used as the loaf is in the wron...

Hi there! I recently started dabbling around with GoL, and found this: x = 11, y = 66, rule = B3/S23 $2b2obob2o$3bobobo$3bobobo$2b2obob2o$3bobobo$3bobobo$2b2obob2o$3bobobo $3bobobo$2b2obob2o$3bobobo$3bobobo$2b2obob2o$3bobobo$3bobobo$2b2obob2o $3bobobo$3bobobo$2b2obob2o$3bobobo$3bobobo$2b2obob2o$3bob...