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I've uploaded a list of links to LifeWiki to avoid the middle man that is this thread: http://www.conwaylife.com/wiki/index.php?title=LifeWiki:Life_links As such, I propose keeping that list as the list of "good links" (whatever that means), and this thread can be used for posting any links (your ow...

The Oscar script supplied with Golly can find oscillators, including spaceships & knightships. Is there a (feasible) way to modify the script so that it can detect gliders in the presence of other stuff? For example, if you run the R-pentomino under that script it goes forever because hashes never ...

I'd of course be willing to lend my server to a task like this, though I'm not sure I'm familiar enough with Python/Perl and/or the relevant coding techniques to actually make a program that would do something like has been suggested here. What I'd much prefer to see would be a depth-first search of...

Are any other spaceships or puffers known to occur naturally, apart from the 4 standard spaceships and the 2 switch engines? And Could a program be made that detects all spaceships given off by random starting patterns? Achim Flammenkamp did some searches ( results ) but didn't find a single occurr...

Very nice. Here's a Coe Ship from Stephen Silver's gun collection, though he doesn't provide the name of the author of it (does anyone know?) x = 133, y = 96 33boo5boo5boo5boo66bobbo$33boo5boo5boo5boo56b3o7bo$73boo5boo16boo11bo 4bo9bo$73boo5boo16boo10bo5bo8boo$111bo8bo$112boo8boo$$112boo8boo$111bo 8...

PS: It would be cool if the webmaster could make an RLE tag so that small patterns could be run in JavaScript. For example, if my pattern was smaller, you could replace code with [rle]. Hrm... I'll add that to the to-do list because it'd be pretty cool, but I imagine that if it happens it'll be a w...

Cool beans, I've added it to the Coe ship glider synthesis file in the wiki.

Has anything been done regarding patterns from strings of digits, since the first 2 posts at http://pentadecathlon.com/lifeNews/restricted_patterns/ ? The LifeWiki also sems to be missing a page on this, would it be worthwhile creating one? This is actually on my personal to-do list for the wiki ri...

Hmm... I wonder if this proof idea could be emulated for other rules. Some of them clearly have higher speed limits, and others presumably have lower. I was wondering the same thing. The proof only seems to rely on the fact that "3" is a birth condition, "0", "1" and "2" are not a birth conditions,...

Have you exhausted the 3-by-8 rectangles? That is, do we know that 3-by-9 is minimal?

...I see a superstring gun as a done deal if that LWSS formation can be synthesized. It can, and it's not difficult to do (4 gliders per LWSS since the 3-glider syntheses all seem to require gliders coming from various different directions): x = 24, y = 21, rule = B3/S23 3bobo$4b2o$4bo5$8bo$6bobo$7...

The list is now updated.

Well, I finally got this page created: http://www.conwaylife.com/wiki/index.ph ... al_pattern Feel free to expand etc.

Hrm, that's strange, I just logged on on my girlfriend's profile and saw what you were talking about. For some reason it displayed properly on my profile (in all browsers) and when I wasn't logged in, but in other people's profiles it didn't do the facebook-specific settings I made (such as hiding t...

Hmm... the side bar for it should probably be narrower (it partially covers up the actual controls for me right now), and the text should be something more relevant then "A tool for exploring the Game of Life, a database for collecting patterns, and a community for sharing results." since the commu...

Here's a new experiment! Say hello ConwayLife.com as a Facebook application: http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=76518526956 Please add it to your profile and let me know how it works for you. I need at least 5 people using it before it can get listed in the Application directory on Face...

Version beta 0.9.0 was uploaded today. The following changes since beta 0.8.2 have been made: Some minor graphical glitch fixes. The box at the bottom-right of the page used to sometimes only appear as a blue box with no controls on it. I believe that this is now fixed. The auto-loading via querystr...

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I upped the limit, just for you

Over the past few weeks, I've found quite a few new oscillators in 2x2. However, I don't know how to add them to the collection on the 2x2 page. I've added the collection to this post. I'll add those tonight or tomorrow, thanks. The 10-cell still life count for 2x2 completed today as well (the fina...

I finally found what you seem to be looking for. In 1997, Helmut Postl created this pattern: x = 85, y = 164, skip = 5, fps = 20 58boo5b4o$56booboo3bo3bo$56b4o8bo$57boo5bobbo$$52boo9bo$50b5o8b3o$50b oo4bo5bo3bo$50boo5b5o4bo$52boo4b4oboboo$55b3oboo3bo$61bobo$24boo$22boo boo14bo$22b4o13boo24b4o$23boo1...

Well I got my new computer built yesterday, so now it's running the 10-cell counts for both 2x2 and maze. My semester finishes up later this week so I'll hopefully have more time for coding in the near future.

To make it grow quadratically, you would also need something that creates switch engines on the fly, correct? I don't know off-hand of any such pattern.

I modified the script to detect escaping gliders (this is a preliminary approach). The shortest patterns that produce escaping gliders are the following two 15-bit patterns: OOO · OOOOO · OOOOO (and its mirror image) 13 cells. It runs for 522 generations. Final population: 150 cells. (4 gliders). O...

Could the script be altered to enumerate small oscillators in various rules? Nope, I'm afraid it could not. An oscillator script might use some of the same elements (maybe), but it would have to be fundamentally different. The script as-is basically goes through and checks the stability of every ce...

OK, I've uploaded a new version of the script that automatically weeds out pseudo still lifes as it calculates using the method I described earlier (ie. it uses the "two stables subgroups = pseudo still life" definition). I'm currently re-running the 8-cell maze count to double check the number that...