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by praosylen
September 22nd, 2014, 8:09 pm
Forum: Patterns
Topic: Thread for your unsure discoveries
Replies: 3236
Views: 1492488

Re: Thread for your unsure discoveries

Carrier + 2g -> 2LWSS:

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x = 12, y = 3, rule = B3/S23
2o2b2o5bo$b2obo2bob2o$o5b2o2b2o!
Not sure if this is useful in any way.
by praosylen
September 22nd, 2014, 1:15 pm
Forum: Patterns
Topic: Thread For Your Useless Discoveries
Replies: 4547
Views: 1757232

Re: Thread For Your Useless Discoveries

7-cell, 3x5 methuselah lasts 1675 gens.

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x = 5, y = 3, rule = B3/S23
2b2o$bobo$2o2bo!
by praosylen
September 20th, 2014, 4:40 pm
Forum: Patterns
Topic: Soup search results
Replies: 2589
Views: 1912122

Re: Soup search results

Pi predecessor + stairstep -> block + figure-8:

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x = 9, y = 6, rule = B3/S23
2bo$b2o$2o$o5bo$5b2obo$6bo!
by praosylen
September 19th, 2014, 5:13 pm
Forum: Other Cellular Automata
Topic: Thread for Your Accidental Discoveries that Aren't in CGOL
Replies: 908
Views: 550767

Re: Thread for Your Accidental Discoveries that Aren't in CGOL

Precursor to a p2 oscillator in HighLife:

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x = 7, y = 6, rule = B36/S23
2o2$obo$b2ob2o$2o3b2o$4b2o!
Found using apgsearch.
by praosylen
September 18th, 2014, 1:19 pm
Forum: Patterns
Topic: Soup search results
Replies: 2589
Views: 1912122

Re: Soup search results

Scorbie wrote:A beacon crystalizes a "Multum in Parvo" into an induction coil.
That's not quite a multum in parvo.

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x = 246, y = 6, rule = B3/S23
243b3o$242bo2bo$3b3o235bo$2bo2bo234bo$bo3bo$o!
by praosylen
September 18th, 2014, 1:14 pm
Forum: Patterns
Topic: Thread For Your Useless Discoveries
Replies: 4547
Views: 1757232

Re: Thread For Your Useless Discoveries

P2 billiard table with 8 different interdependent rotors:

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x = 17, y = 20, rule = B3/S23
10b2o$10bo$5b2o4bo$5bo4b2o$6b3o6b2o$9b5o2bo$4b3o7b2o$3bobob5o$3bobo4bo
b4o$4b3ob2o5bo$bo6b5o$b4o8bo$4b6o3bo$b3o5b4o$o2b6o$2o6b3o$5b2o4bo$5bo
4b2o$6bo$5b2o!
by praosylen
September 17th, 2014, 7:00 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: apgsearch: a high-performance soup searcher
Replies: 147
Views: 138624

Re: apgsearch: a high-performance soup searcher

What are these "Twit" and "Prodigal sign" objects that keep appearing in the census? I have never heard these terms used before, and I haven't had the time to check what they are?
by praosylen
September 17th, 2014, 5:08 pm
Forum: Patterns
Topic: Soup search results
Replies: 2589
Views: 1912122

Re: Soup search results

Probably already known, but quadpole predecessor:

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x = 8, y = 7, rule = B3/S23
2o$obo$b2o$4bo$4bo$4bo2bo$5b2o!
by praosylen
September 17th, 2014, 11:28 am
Forum: Patterns
Topic: Thread for your unsure discoveries
Replies: 3236
Views: 1492488

Re: Thread for your unsure discoveries

Building on my previous posts, this still life is destroyed (sadly not cleanly) if the two sparks are applied at the same time, but not if they are mistimed by even one generation. x = 30, y = 14, rule = B3/S23 2o2bo4bo7b2o2bo4bo$o2bobo3bo7bo2bobo3bo$b2obo13b2obo$2bo2b3obo9bo2b3ob o$2bo5b2o9bo5b2o$3...
by praosylen
September 17th, 2014, 10:55 am
Forum: Patterns
Topic: Thread For Your Useless Discoveries
Replies: 4547
Views: 1757232

Re: Thread For Your Useless Discoveries

That's funny! I discovered this independently a few months ago, and now someone beats me to posting it by less than a week. Oh, well.
by praosylen
September 16th, 2014, 5:19 pm
Forum: Patterns
Topic: Thread For Your Useless Discoveries
Replies: 4547
Views: 1757232

Re: Thread For Your Useless Discoveries

Schick-based puffer emits a LWSS each period. x = 410, y = 54, rule = B3/S23 348bo$347bo47bo$348bo45bobo$355b2o37bo2bo$354bo2b2obo34b2o$319bo34bo4b obo9bo$317bobo36b2o3bo9bo$316b2o28b2o7bo3bobo7bo8bo$315b2o4bo25bobo3b 2o5bo3b2o3b2o6bo2bo$317bob3o25b2obo2bo2bo2bobo2b2ob2obobo3bo4bo$319b2o 28bo3b2obob...
by praosylen
September 16th, 2014, 1:15 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Thread for Explaining your Avatars
Replies: 4
Views: 3963

Re: Thread for Explaining your Avatars

Thank you so much!
by praosylen
September 15th, 2014, 8:57 am
Forum: Patterns
Topic: Thread for your unsure discoveries
Replies: 3236
Views: 1492488

Re: Thread for your unsure discoveries

mniemiec wrote: It seems likely that there should be some 3-glider collision that would make such a spark, but i don't know of any off hand.
I dunno, maybe a glider applied to the side of a B-heptomino could do the trick.
by praosylen
September 14th, 2014, 6:23 pm
Forum: Patterns
Topic: Thread for your unsure discoveries
Replies: 3236
Views: 1492488

Re: Thread for your unsure discoveries

mniemiec wrote: In the instances you mentioned, a single point-wise bit-spark (or equivalent point-wise domino spark) would have the same effect. Yes, but can one of those sparks do this? x = 9, y = 8, rule = B3/S23 4bo$3bobo$3bobo$2obobob2o$obo3bobo2$3b3o$b2o2b2o! I suppose I only used that spark ...
by praosylen
September 14th, 2014, 1:53 pm
Forum: Patterns
Topic: Thread for your unsure discoveries
Replies: 3236
Views: 1492488

Re: Thread for your unsure discoveries

A spark and its many uses: x = 6, y = 2, rule = B3/S23 2b3o$2o2b2o! x = 138, y = 15, rule = B3/S23 128bo$110b2o14b5o2b2ob2o$111bo2b2o9bo5bo2bobo$106b2obo4bo10bob3obobo2b o$99b2o5bob3o5bo9b2o2bobob2o$46bo28b2o2b2o15bo3bo11b5o12bo2bo$45bobo 28b3o4b2o9b6o10b3o11b5ob2ob3o$32bo3b2o6bo2bo3b2o29bo2bo7bo15b...
by praosylen
September 14th, 2014, 1:46 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Thread for Explaining your Avatars
Replies: 4
Views: 3963

Thread for Explaining your Avatars

I have seen many avatars around this site that I have no idea what they are. If you wish, feel free to post explanations of your avatars in this thread. My avatar is a static image of the oscillator "A for all". There is a link to its page in my signature. P.S. Does anyone know how to shrink an anim...
by praosylen
September 14th, 2014, 1:40 pm
Forum: The Sandbox
Topic: Introductions
Replies: 224
Views: 157647

Re: introduction

(EDIT: why did I even post this, I said literally nothing here. Oh well, it's not like I'm adding anything useful now...)
by praosylen
September 14th, 2014, 1:37 pm
Forum: Patterns
Topic: Thread For Your Useless Discoveries
Replies: 4547
Views: 1757232

Re: Thread For Your Useless Discoveries

Interesting, but useless, predecessor of a p2 oscillator:

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x = 10, y = 10, rule = B3/S23
4b2o$3bo2bo$3bobo$b2obo3bo$o2b2o2bobo$obo2b2o2bo$bo3bob2o$4bobo$3bo2bo
$4b2o!
Note how the bakery is destroyed and later reforms.

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