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by bdm68
January 2nd, 2016, 7:54 am
Forum: Other Cellular Automata
Topic: Close life variants
Replies: 233
Views: 151769

Re: Close life variants

The four most common soup patterns with B578/S4567/N31 appear to be:

Old patterns: Block (very common) and Blinker.

Ship and "Twin Blinker" (2-state oscillator, more common than Blinker)
# # . . . . . . . # . #
# . # . . . . . . # . #
. # # . . . . . . # . #
Gliders are also fairly common ...
by bdm68
January 2nd, 2016, 5:42 am
Forum: Other Cellular Automata
Topic: Close life variants
Replies: 233
Views: 151769

Re: Close life variants

(snip) long description of B578/S4567/N31 .
I wish there was a script to produce this.
I wrote a quick and dirty script in PHP to simulate this rule. It took about an hour to write the first version and was about 150 lines before I started adding code to initialise the grid with specific patterns ...
by bdm68
January 1st, 2016, 4:17 am
Forum: Other Cellular Automata
Topic: Close life variants
Replies: 233
Views: 151769

Re: Close life variants

I have found a ruleset similar to Conway's Game of Life with some differences. It uses a modification of the Moore neighbourhood to determine neighbours. As such, I don't know if it belongs here or if this thread is limited to cellular automata where all neighbours use the Moore neighbourhood with a ...