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by evert823
February 24th, 2022, 3:43 pm
Forum: Patterns
Topic: Thread For Your Useless Discoveries
Replies: 5138
Views: 2221230

Re: Thread For Your Useless Discoveries

I started drawing mazes in Game of Life, and discovered that from Game of Life point of view they are not particularly interesting.
(If anything interesting happens nonetheless it won't have much to do with them being a maze.)
This discovery should fit well in this thread.

x = 121, y = 121, rule ...
by evert823
February 21st, 2022, 5:12 pm
Forum: Patterns
Topic: Infinite patterns (generation 0 being infinite)
Replies: 2
Views: 1094

Re: Infinite patterns (generation 0 being infinite)

Thanks, very awesome to see that this was already implemented in Golly!
by evert823
February 21st, 2022, 1:16 pm
Forum: Patterns
Topic: Infinite patterns (generation 0 being infinite)
Replies: 2
Views: 1094

Infinite patterns (generation 0 being infinite)

Have infinite patterns ever being studied somewhere?

Here, by infinite I mean that generation 0 has an infinite amount of cells that are alive.

We could define such an infinite 0-generation in a function such as:


def IsAlive_G0(self, x, y):

if self.ff.IsPrime((12 * x) + 1):
return True
if ...
by evert823
February 20th, 2022, 5:14 pm
Forum: Patterns
Topic: Soup search results
Replies: 2626
Views: 2322156

Re: Soup search results

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x = 12, y = 12, rule = B3/S23
$4b2o2b2o$3b3o2b3o$bo2b3ob2o$b4ob5o$b10o$bo2b7o$b6o$2b5ob3o$b2o2b2ob3o
$b10o!
Produces 41 gliders and stays alive for some 9600 generations