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Finding the P 3 Pulsar and claiming to have found a new oscillator is showing a naivette about Life. It's like finding a polyphemus moth and calling the museum to claim the discovery of a new species) It's that and the forum about "pattern frequency software" that prompts the following :

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This is advise the users of this forum that I am frustrated by patterns presented in GOLLY or RLE as I can not decipher them. I am therefore seriously considering abandoning this forum ,even to just view it. There are other LIFE websites which present patterns in a visual way I can use. I also get ...

I TRIED to revive Lifeline, and it lasted about 1 issue under my aegis. I was working with Bill Webb (if you remember him, please let me know !). After I released one issue and was preparing a 2nd, he wrote me and advised me that I was just wasting my time publishing to a very small reader base who ...

Just want to let you know: these DotLife patterns will NOT work in regular Life. So, don't go HURRAH !

I have issues #3 on. NO, I am NOT getting rid of them. Their knowledge is primitive compared to what we have now.
They turned up in a closet along with towels and washcloths ! :? I would have never thought of looking for them there. When my mother was dying in the hospital, I started a thorough ...

OK, granted that there are a jillion different rules for cellular automata based on immediate neighborhoods alone, consider the 3-4 alternate life universe. I have never found any program to run this. It is just not popular enough.

In 3-4 Life, still-lifes are rare and only the Block (I call it the ...

A discussion of oscillators would def. spruce things up here. :D .It's curiuous that 19 is the first period for which NO oscillator has yet been found. :o .That 19 is a prime number rules out any chance that a P 19 oscillator could be found by taking one or more with period(s) a factor of 19 and ...

Nathanial, somebody by the codename of Lutcruito or something is trolling this website ! Porn has NOTHING to do with Conway's game of Life. Act !

I logged on by chance, when searching for a P6 Wick Oscillator I was ready to graph to my books. I found INappropiate forum topics when seeing if anybody ...

I wish to thank you, for calling my attention to that P 6 Diagonal Spaceship that glide-reflects.

By the way, ANDREW, Kok's Galaxy is one of my favorite oscillators -tho it does NOT occur naturally. It has no stagnant inductors, braces, etc.,...

It also proved effective as a hassler or perturber ...

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Mebbe you had probs reading the 0's and X's, so I used lower case...

It'll grow to 40 units tall, but by then it's decaying downwards and will become compact again.

OK, PM 2Ring, here's the skinny on both...

(1) I use graph paper, to create a personal record of my discoveries. Whenever I discovered a wonderful pattern , back in last century, I would carefully re-input it and make certain of how it's going to grow before reaching its final fate (and to confirm ...

I am also quite amazed & astounded at the terrible Greyships researched by Holwart Hazmat, which are traveling agars !! :o I was able to graph the smallest one, but the others are 6-10 feet long and suggest cockroaches or centipedes in shape. The agar may be horizontal, vertical or chicken wire type ...

For examples of patterns I posted -please refer to "Stable Life?", the forum next door. I am proud of my super-diehard and I feel I have a lead towards finding a P19 oscillator. I used an "applet" from a Life website and one of the editable work spaces of another.
I find the article on "IceNine ...

Yes, that's the huge shapeless diagonal spaceship I just graphed into what is now vol. 21 of my books, replacing an ungainly pattern that wasn't edifying but was space-wasting. That bled onto the other side of the page and I used chlorox to clean up the graph paper and to help fix the wonderful ...

I wonder why "Machi" includes a pic of the MONSTROUS spaceship mercifully cloaked under the name "Caterpillar" in his posts...

I think I found what you're talking about.

It was NOT called the Seal and the brief description did NOT say it glide reflects. That -and its large size- prevented me from considering it. Also, the patterns in this website have had mistakes: there was a P37 oscillator, the first known, BUT I could ...

At this point, iI'd like to state that gibberish like "003b00007b0003a000" is utterly untranslatable and useless to me, in examining a pattern. The patterns I inputted to date -and they are not many- are straightforward, none of the gibberish that Niemarc likes to use. I also carefully test a ...

Reading about unpredictability and such ,posted by you, I was reminded of the Line Puffers which tend to have enormous periods and VAST dirty output. Some seem to chug along for thousands, hundreds of thousands, even millions of gen., and then the exhaust rams into the engine and disruption ...

Only the glider and the familiar P4 spaceships seem to occur naturally in Life.
Recently a possible infinity of mega-gliders have been found (P4 diagonal spaceships with glider reflection each 2 gen.), all having 1 or more basic gliders towing (by induction) a shapeless mass behind them. In one at ...

Andrew posted Kok's Galaxy, a beautiful P8 oscillator. It doesn't have the static buffers that too many artificial oscillators use. Odd that out of the infinity of oscillators , only the Blinker, the Pulsar ( P3 ) the Beacon, the Toad and very occasionally the Clock ever occur naturally. The ...

OK, It is I, MadMan, a new chatty chatter. I've been looking for a home computer before they even invented them. Once they were invented, I did a lot of research in Life, and accumulated 51 volumes of 10 box/inch graph paper. I found many diehards (and super-diehards), long-term ancestors (and super ...