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by towerator
October 20th, 2013, 3:02 pm
Forum: Patterns
Topic: Spiraloids (previously Spirals)
Replies: 32
Views: 24710

Re: Spirals

the "block crawler" found in the ' block spiral needs investigation!
Also, your block-maker actually makes 16 blocks.
The barges that appeared in the first spiral is actually a semi-common still-life, being more common tha the pulsar but less common than the beacon.
by towerator
October 20th, 2013, 10:21 am
Forum: Patterns
Topic: Thread For Your Accidental Discoveries
Replies: 2058
Views: 1422232

Re: Thread For Your Accidental Discoveries

Can something be done with this?

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x = 8, y = 4, rule = B3/S23
4b2o$3bo2bo$2o2b2o$2o!
here, both patterns reappear.
by towerator
October 20th, 2013, 9:13 am
Forum: Patterns
Topic: Spiraloids (previously Spirals)
Replies: 32
Views: 24710

Re: Spirals

ALMOST creates a flip-flop

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x = 21, y = 21, rule = B3/S23
8bo$8b2o$8b2o$8b2o$7b3o$7bo2bob2o$5b3o2bo2bo$5bo2bo2bob3o$7bo4bo2b5o$
5b2o8b4o$b4o8b2o$5o2bo4bo$4b3obo2bo2bo$6bo2bo2b3o$6b2obo2bo$10b3o$10b
2o$10b2o$10b2o$11bo!
by towerator
October 20th, 2013, 8:03 am
Forum: Other Cellular Automata
Topic: Oscillators in B45678/S123567
Replies: 25
Views: 13724

Re: Oscillators in B45678/S123567

a P2 x = 5, y = 5, rule = B45678/S123567 obobo$5o$5o$5o$obobo! a P9 x = 5, y = 3, rule = B45678/S123567 obobo$b3o$obobo! and a p6! x = 3, y = 6, rule = B45678/S123567 bo$bo$obo$obo$bo$bo! We now have p2, p4, p5, p6, p7, p8, 9 and p10. a way to have very long period oscillator x = 19, y = 3, rule = B...
by towerator
October 20th, 2013, 7:57 am
Forum: Patterns
Topic: Thread for your unsure discoveries
Replies: 3261
Views: 1497573

Re: Thread for your unsure discoveries

I like how the first reaction causes 2 pixels to blink 5 times.
by towerator
October 20th, 2013, 7:56 am
Forum: Patterns
Topic: Spiraloids (previously Spirals)
Replies: 32
Views: 24710

Re: Spirals

As the "unusual SL spiral", heres's mine

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x = 18, y = 18, rule = B3/S23
7bo$7b2o$7b2o$6b3o$6bo2bo$6bo2bo$7b2o3b3o$11bo2b4o$4b2o2b2obo2b3o$b3o
2bob2o2b2o$4o2bo$3b3o3b2o$8bo2bo$8bo2bo$9b3o$9b2o$9b2o$10bo!
produces 4 shipties.
In fact, it is the result of 4 fleet intercting.
by towerator
October 20th, 2013, 2:26 am
Forum: Patterns
Topic: Spiraloids (previously Spirals)
Replies: 32
Views: 24710

Re: Spirals

Some "spirals" are stable, too!
Here is the "four-tailled tub"

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x = 7, y = 7, rule = B3/S23
o4b2o$3o2bo$3bobo$2bobo$bobo$bo2b3o$2o4bo!
By the way, Isn't it funb the final censur sof "the eye" looks like an huge spiral?
by towerator
October 20th, 2013, 2:21 am
Forum: Patterns
Topic: Thread For Your Useless Discoveries
Replies: 4568
Views: 1762586

Re: Thread For Your Useless Discoveries

Of course you can! It's like my B-fuses!
by towerator
October 17th, 2013, 1:24 pm
Forum: Patterns
Topic: Thread for your unsure discoveries
Replies: 3261
Views: 1497573

Re: Thread for your unsure discoveries

well, it may be a "tubs beehive-5 inductor"
It isn't new, sorry.
by towerator
October 17th, 2013, 9:18 am
Forum: Patterns
Topic: Thread For Your Accidental Discoveries
Replies: 2058
Views: 1422232

Re: Thread For Your Accidental Discoveries

a beautiful diehard that emerged naturally from soup

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x = 26, y = 13, rule = B3/S23
3bo11bobo$2bobo$2b2o10bob2o$15bo2$16b3o2$17bo2$11bob3o$11bobo$11bo8b2o
$16bo3bo!
also leads to a B destroyer
by towerator
October 16th, 2013, 4:14 pm
Forum: Patterns
Topic: Thread For Your Useless Discoveries
Replies: 4568
Views: 1762586

Re: Thread For Your Useless Discoveries

5573 generations for a symmetrical methusaleh. 2 toads, a pair of bookeds, 2 eaters, 2 bakeries, 2 beactons and 2 MWSS which destroy a block before crashing in more scraps can be seen. x = 7, y = 10, rule = B3/S23 4bo$2b2obo$5bo$bo$bo$bo$5bo$2b2obo$4bo! Interestingly,at generation 1039, there isn't ...
by towerator
October 16th, 2013, 10:46 am
Forum: Other Cellular Automata
Topic: Affected: 35678/24/5
Replies: 26
Views: 15528

Re: Affected: 35678/24/5

Just for fun, I made a long flottilla showing the many uses of the ship x = 1244, y = 160, rule = 35678/24/4 555.C2$555.C3$565.ABC.A5.CBA$560.2A.ABC2.BCB2.CB2.CBA$560.2B.ABC2.B2. C.C.CB2.CBA$559.A2C4.BCA5.BA.AB2.CBA$559.B6.AB5.A.A.A.CB2.CBA$558.ACA 4.ABCBC2.BC.AB2.ABA.A.CBA$558.B.B4.ACA3.A.CBC.C.C4....
by towerator
October 16th, 2013, 8:59 am
Forum: Other Cellular Automata
Topic: Affected: 35678/24/5
Replies: 26
Views: 15528

Re: Affected: 35678/24/5

a small flottilla made with "puffships" x = 161, y = 135, rule = 35678/24/4 $61.A$59.AB.BA$59.BCBCB$60.C2.C$58.C3.C12.AB2.CBA$57.B2.B12.ABC.C3.CB A$56.ACA2C2A10.ABC.A.C.A.CBA$56.B.B.BAB5.2A6.BCBABC3.CBA$55.ACA.ACAC 5.2BA4.AB.B.B2.C3.CBA$55.B5.C6.2CBA3.C2.BC.ABCBAB2.CBA$54.ACA4.BC6.CB A2.BA.C.A3.A3.C...
by towerator
October 13th, 2013, 3:54 pm
Forum: Other Cellular Automata
Topic: Thread for Your Accidental Discoveries that Aren't in CGOL
Replies: 923
Views: 552805

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

tiny c/2 in Rhombic's rule

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x = 5, y = 6, rule = 235/35/4
.3A$.3A$2AC2A$BCACB$2.B!
curiously, it seems less common than the asymetrical 4c/9.
by towerator
October 13th, 2013, 3:39 am
Forum: Other Cellular Automata
Topic: [Ray Distributed Spectrum]: 1234/34/5
Replies: 9
Views: 6363

Re: [Ray Distributed Spectrum]: 1234/34/5

It is the third crawler I posted...
by towerator
October 12th, 2013, 1:14 pm
Forum: Other Cellular Automata
Topic: Affected: 35678/24/5
Replies: 26
Views: 15528

Re: 35678/24/4

an oscillator

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x = 7, y = 7, rule = 35678/2/4:T500,500
2.ABA$2.B.B$AB3ABA$B.3A.B$AB3ABA$2.B.B$2.ABA!
by towerator
October 10th, 2013, 4:25 pm
Forum: Other Cellular Automata
Topic: [Ray Distributed Spectrum]: 1234/34/5
Replies: 9
Views: 6363

Re: [Ray Distributed Spectrum]: 1234/34/5

an orthogonal "crawler" burrows at c/4, and is veery self-desctructive x = 27, y = 26, rule = 1234/34/4 $27A2$27A2$27A2$27A2$27A2$27A$13.A$13A.C12A$12.A3.B$13A.C12A$13.A$27A 2$27A2$27A2$27A2$27A! note: the rule is sightly different a "ladder crawler" x = 86, y = 98, rule = 1234/34/5 45A$45.41A$45A$4...
by towerator
October 9th, 2013, 10:40 am
Forum: Other Cellular Automata
Topic: [Ray Distributed Spectrum]: 1234/34/5
Replies: 9
Views: 6363

Re: [Ray Distributed Spectrum]: 1234/34/5

I found a pattern capable of movement along an oblique line x = 201, y = 254, rule = 1234/34/5 .A7.A.A.D7.A.A.A7.A.A.A7.A.A.A7.A.A.C7.A.A.A7.A.A9.A.A.A7.A.A.B7.A.A. A7.A.A.D7.A.A9.A.A.A6.37A$.7A.A.AD9A.A.7ABA.9ACA.A.7ADA.AC7A.A.A.9A.A .7ABA.A.7ACA.AB7ADA.A.7A.A.AD9A.A.7A.A.A.7A$.D7.A.A7.A.A.A.A5.B.A...
by towerator
October 7th, 2013, 7:09 am
Forum: Patterns
Topic: Thread For Your Accidental Discoveries
Replies: 2058
Views: 1422232

Re: Thread For Your Accidental Discoveries

(This is an Extendedlife RLE, so there are additional states. Such states are used here only to protect the gun and to make it smaller.) A plainer but finite version of the above: Code: Select all x = 115, y = 109, rule = LifeHistory 10.A$8.A.A$A.A6.2A$.2A$.A2$16.A$17.A$7.A7.3A$8.2A$7.2A3$23.A$21.A...
by towerator
October 6th, 2013, 4:17 pm
Forum: Patterns
Topic: Wishlist
Replies: 24
Views: 20137

Re: Wishlist

I would love to see a non-gemini knightship.
by towerator
October 6th, 2013, 2:36 pm
Forum: Other Cellular Automata
Topic: Glide Life: 23/34578/4
Replies: 9
Views: 5452

Re: 23/3458/4

sphenocona's p124 is already on the page.
Also, the knightship and the p2 are about as common.
Why not callling it "slopey glider"?
by towerator
October 6th, 2013, 11:40 am
Forum: Other Cellular Automata
Topic: Glide Life: 23/34578/4
Replies: 9
Views: 5452

Re: 23/3458/4

the tub is remarkable as it is impossible to "corrupt" the interior without destroying the growing edge.
by towerator
October 5th, 2013, 11:18 am
Forum: Other Cellular Automata
Topic: 238/346/3
Replies: 5
Views: 4174

Re: 238/346/3

Here's a 52424 methusaleh. It is only made of 9 cells!

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x = 3, y = 5, rule = 238/346/3
.A2$3A$A.A$3A!
the "glider" is a tub relative
by towerator
October 5th, 2013, 10:48 am
Forum: Patterns
Topic: Thread For Your Accidental Discoveries
Replies: 2058
Views: 1422232

Re: Thread For Your Accidental Discoveries

while looking for a way to make a rake out of the p34 puffer, I found a p2724 puffer based on the p12 loaf puffer. The huge fuse which constantly rectreates doesn't damage the engine. x = 712, y = 19, rule = B3/S23 bo2bo$o$o3bo$4o706b2o$696bo13b2o$695bobo12b2o$694bo3bo$4b2o675bobo11bo 2bo7b2o2bo$2b2...
by towerator
October 5th, 2013, 6:31 am
Forum: Other Cellular Automata
Topic: 238/346/3
Replies: 5
Views: 4174

Re: 238/346/3

Interesting... Only symmetrical methusaleh seems to work, sinc the tubs need symmetry. Why not "symmetrical chaos"? Also, there's anothe still life: the long ship also works EDIT: the best methusaleh seem to have one, and only on symmetry axis. here's a 45K long 3 tubs interaction x = 18, y = 3, rul...