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I'm outta here... but at least I leave enlightened... I now have a pretty good idea why this community has declined over the years... far too many flipping people (oops, sorry - i forgot, no words beginning with "f" - or ucks sake) who want "more rules" (probably so they can police them), revel in ...

I'm sorry, but "Is this pattern known?" just shouldn't be a forum question in 2026. It's silly easy to reduce a pattern to a canonical form (i.e. trimmed of surrounding dead cells) and then hash it. The only thing to then do is agree the hashing (that's the reproducibility!). Just for example ...

Thank you for proving every point I made

You explicitly describe this as an “academic forum.”

Fine. I'm prepared to take that assertion seriously.

Please substantiate the claimed academic provenance.

What makes this forum academic, rather than a specialist enthusiast forum?

Where are its standards for reproducibility, evidence and ...

Nothing, diddley squat. No rebuke or rebuttal, just a resounding silence. A few nudges asking for a little introspection being met with silence looks increasingly like classical ossification.

https://conwaylife.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=2092

The forum rules repeatedly describe this as an ...

To put that more bluntly, "make up your f'ing mind"...

Because “we desperately want new people” and “please learn what we've already decided is worthy of being interested in” are in fairly obvious tension.

Apologies if some of this sounds a little brutal, but it's intended constructively.

* The thread asks how not to discourage newcomers, but many proposed solutions amount to more rules, greater visibility of rules, or compulsory exposure to rules.
* Several comments implicitly treat newcomers ...

"Plus Worlds"...

Some 222 rules will produce stable "plus" patterns from random initial density.

The "plus" pattern is...
#C Copied from GoGoL
x = 6, y = 6, rule = B0/S467
6b$2b2o$b4o$b4o$2b2o$6b!


The rules are...
B0/S47
B0/S457
B0/S467
B0/S4567
B0/S478
B0/S4578
B0/S4678
B0/S45678
B1/S457
B1 ...

B13/S123 "Metallic Grain Growth"
has a "shuttle" (that can move across striped regions)...
#N metal shuttle
#O Marrow
#C Captured from GoGoL (https://github.com/marrow16/gogol)
x = 8, y = 8, rule = B13/S123
obobobo$obobobo$ob3obo$ob2ob2o$ob2ob2o$ob3obo$obobobo$obobobo!

B3567/S45678 "Fungus"
has ...

Hi,

Could I please be added as "trusted" so that I can edit the Wiki?

My wiki username is "Marrow16"

Thanks in advance.

Martin