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Is it possible to download this program somewhere?

Is that stupid to suggest to "take it from the other side" and trying to find back ends, then progressing in the sense of direction until the front is complete?

Saka wrote:How much is 100 hours?

4 days and 4 hours, if that's what you're asking. And we're talking about non-stop here...

It's worth trying, computers are 1000 times as fast as they were. (And it would be awesome...)

I'm surprized no one commented this: x = 32, y = 32, rule = B3/S23 4b2obo3b5ob4o5b5o$3bo2b4ob2ob4ob4obob2o3bo$3b2ob3ob4o6b5obobo2bo$b2ob 2obo2b2o2bo2b4ob4o3bobo$ob2o3bobo2b3obob2obo2b2o4b2o$o2bobobo2bobo2b2o bob3o2b2o2b3o$b2o7b4obobo8b3o$6o6b2ob3obobo5b4o$b2o5b5ob2ob2o2bobo4b2o $bo2bo3b3o5bob2ob2o3b...

Also, is the mango the smallest still life that can be converted to a glider by a single dot spark? x = 5, y = 6, rule = B3/S23 bo2$2b2o$bo2bo$o2bo$b2o! Equaled by the long ship: x = 6, y = 4, rule = B3/S23 2b2o$bobobo$obo$2o! If you're not too regardant, a ship can create a B&G with the same spark...

I don't think it is worth making an entire topic for this...

Not to discourage you, but glider collisions of all objects under 16? bits were investigated by Koenig... I personally think it would be thankful if you write a post on an existing topic instead of opening a new topic, but I'm not sure if others would agree with that. I personnally do, I remember o...

Random though: it would be fun to call it the 'undesigned ark". This is a reference to the fact creationnists try to show that there are natural thing that were designed. This is a "designed object"(and a biblical one, oh the irony) that appeared entirely out of blue. Hence the undesigned ark. (Or m...

Reason. But I found a p46 oscillator with the toad constructor and vacuum! [facepalm] Look! I found a new p30 putting an eater 1 block farther than anyone before! x = 79, y = 93, rule = B3/S23 5b2o$5b2o5$5bo$5bo$4bobo$3b2ob2o$2bo5bo$5bo$2b2o3b2o3$3b4o$3bo2b2o$4bo b2o2$5b2o$6bo3$2obob2o$o5bo5bo$bo3b...

The 2c/5's movement is somewhat similar to the one of a tumbler, and you can imagine it's two sides are spinning in opposite dirtections) so I'd suggest a name based on spinning, something like core, rotor, helix, car-washer (now THAT would be a strange name).

Saka wrote:Oh, and a very small c/4 "engine" (Is that correct?)

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x = 7, y = 5, rule = B3/S23
2obo$bobo$5b2o$bobo$2obo!

Actually, the incomplete part goes forward, while the reappearing part goes backward, so it is a c/4 tail rather than an engine.

"Hmm... Let's see. Is there anything such as a pond-pi-fuse? Let's try and oh my god WHAT IS THAT?" *A wild symmetrical 28-cells SL appears!* x = 6, y = 29, rule = B3/S23 3b2o$2bo2bo$2bo2bo$3b2o9$2o$obo$2bo$obo$2o9$3b2o$2bo2bo$2bo2bo$3b2o! Complete cleanup in 4 gliders: x = 51, y = 52, rule = B3/S23...

Most. Useless. Discovery. Ever. If you draw a diagonal 3-pixel line between 2 loaves, they both flip. It is similar to the "block in a flottilla" reaction: it's only use is to waste your time doing it again (and again)^n, where n is your boredom coefficient. x = 10, y = 10, rule = B3/S23 b2o$o2bo$bo...

What you posted was a "natural" predecessor that evolves into the oscillator, but may not be easy to synthesize. My idea is something that is definitely synthesizable (one sided), and possibly synthesizable (two sided), with a possible method for how to convert it into the same oscillator, using ar...

Not quite. The end stabilizers should be beacons. I think the name comes from the fact that the rotor bits flip back and forth between the beacons and the space between the four objects. It was mentioned in Lifeline #3, but it isn't in the wiki or the glossary. It works the same whether the side st...

The Semifore (synthesis: http://codercontest.com/mniemiec/lg/30pd2bc2.rle ) is probably a good starting place. It shouldn't be too hard to add a second siamese one, with the two sharing one pond. From there, it shouldn't be too hard to peel the outer ponds (or perhaps loaves, if they are easier to ...

2 "double PIs" colliding in a symmetrical way (fig 1) creates a large pattern (fig 2) made with 2 large on-offs that looks fairly difficult to synthetize the "normal way". By adding a few stabilisators (fig 3) you get a very big billard-table with few gliders (warning: uselessly big stabilisation al...

Here's a classical one: the auto-stabilizing pair of OWSS: x = 11, y = 407, rule = B3/S23:T12,0 b3o3b3o$o2bo3bo2bo$3bo3bo$3bo3bo$3bo3bo$3bo3bo$3bo3bo$3bo3bo$3bo3bo$3b o3bo$3bo3bo$3bo3bo$3bo3bo$3bo3bo$3bo3bo$3bo3bo$3bo3bo$3bo3bo$3bo3bo$3b o3bo$3bo3bo$3bo3bo$3bo3bo$3bo3bo$3bo3bo$3bo3bo$3bo3bo$3bo3bo$3...

For me, it is what comes out when you squeeze sesame seeds, but, well...

If you collide a glider with those 2 Blocks and 1 hive, it creates a block and glider, the glider going in sthe same way as the original. However, if you put another block, it will catalyse the destruction of the 3 other SLs and send back the glider. So, the presence or not of the block creates 2 di...

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I mean... Why the heck would this have anything in common with GoL?

A spaceship that never repeats its original pattern/configuration/state but remaining in a determined bounding box I'm currently thinking about 2 arrays of ships, with 2 different velocities bot none of them is c/2: The "fast array", let's say 2c/5, gets collided from behind by a LWSS, and transfor...

I decided to try to find more parasites, but I scanned the periods up to 22 without any luck.

Whoops, I actually didn't paste the pattern. Here is it. It has a breeder-like behavior until, eventually, the stream gets exhausted. x = 167, y = 6122, rule = B3/S23 145b3o11b3o$144bo3bo9bo3bo$143b2o4bo7bo4b2o$142bobob2ob2o5b2ob2obobo$ 141b2obo4bob2ob2obo4bob2o$140bo4bo3bo2bobo2bo3bo4bo$152bobo$140...