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Antonin Duda

I call this instant death "Ninja Star"

x = 11, y = 11, rule = B3/S23
5bo$5bo$4b3o$4b3o$2b3ob3o$4o3b4o$2b3ob3o$4b3o$4b3o$5bo$5bo!

A window-shaped pattern evolves into the ninja star, a fact that I discovered a really long time ago...
(even before COVID)
x = 5, y = 5, rule = B3/S23
5o$obobo ...

Antonin Duda

r-pentomino to strange p3

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x = 5, y = 6, rule = LifeFunc
2.F2$.A$.2A$2A$4.F!

Antonin Duda

I don't know if this is the fault of golly, or python itself, but file paths containing characters not within UTF-8 aren't read properly.
In case you're wondering, the folder with the question mark character is named "Antonín", which my local account name my laptop vendor set up.

Antonin Duda

(crossposted from discord)
Not an from an apgsearch soup, but three long boats pointing the same direction formed in a relatively quick succession, making my 20x20 soup quite cursed:
x = 20, y = 20, rule = B3/S23
obo2bobo3bo2bo4bo$b2o6b3o4b2obo$3o2b3o2bob2o3bo$obo2b2o3bo4b3obo$2o4bo
b5o4bobo ...

Antonin Duda

1and0nlycordershippr wrote: December 25th, 2025, 9:25 am Messing with R1 custom rules: Day 5 part 2
Blooming flowers

Please do not make multiple consecutive posts. If you made the most recent post and you need to add something, then edit your previous post instead.

Antonin Duda

MWSS to MWSS on HWSS idk which number

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x = 17, y = 23, rule = B3/S23
8b2o$7bo2bo$7bobo$8bo2$3b2o$3b2o3b2o$7bo2bo2b2o$7bo2bo2b2o$8b2o2$2bo$o
3bo$5bo$o4bo$b5o4$9b2o4bo$8bo2bo2bobo$8bo2bo2bobo$9b2o4bo!

Antonin Duda

Is this 26-cell variant of Wilma known?

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x = 23, y = 39, rule = B3/S23
16bo$17bo$17bo$16b2o$15bo4$bo$2o8$11bo$11bo$11bo3$18b2o$3b2o14bo$4bo3$
4b2o$5bo8$20b3o$20bo$21bo!

Antonin Duda

One-cell-thick trench warfare:

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x = 21, y = 1, rule = Symbiosis
5B4.5A3.4A!

Antonin Duda

(108,60)c/374 spaceship

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x = 39, y = 41, rule = R7,C0,S62-101,121,B59-74
28b5o$27b2o2b3o$26bo5b4o$26bo5b5o$25bo6b6o$24b3o6b6o$24b4o5b6o$25b4o3b
6o$25b5ob7o$25b12o$26b2o2b6o$26b9o$27b7o$28b5o12$8b2o$6b5o$3b6o2b2o$b
7o4bo$7o6bo$6o8bo$5o9bo$5o7b4o$6o5b5o$b6o3b5o$2b13o$3b11o$4b9o$4b10o$
5b8o$6b6o!

Antonin Duda

Seems to work fine on my system (Golly 5.0 on macOS). What exactly is going wrong?

I think my laptop is haunted, i actually have no idea why it doesn't work for me...
Uhh... it specifically doesn't work when i name the rule "blockylife".
My idea is, my laptop somehow encodes the file ...

Antonin Duda

Why does copy+pasting this rule to golly not work?
@RULE blockylife

@TABLE
n_states:3
neighborhood:Moore
symmetries:permute
var a={1,2}
var a1=a
var a2=a
var a3=a
var a4=a
var a5=a
var a6=a
var a7=a
var b={0,1,2}
var b1=b
var b2=b
var b3=b
var b4=b
var b5=b
var b6=b
var b7=b
var c={0,1}
var c1=c ...

Antonin Duda

RT190 glider reflector and p262 based on it

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x = 88, y = 62, rule = Symbiosis
83.B.A$83.3A$53.B29.A.A$53.2A28.A.A$53.2A$85.A$86.A$84.2A.B$56.A27.A$
57.B$67.2B$48.2A17.2B$37.2B8.A.A$37.2B10.A$87.B$86.A4$83.2A$83.2A$83.
B38$3A$2.A$.A!

Antonin Duda

I6_I6 wrote: October 22nd, 2025, 3:03 pm I definitely saw a half-unix in a soup before but it got lost and now I can't find it again.

Is this the half-unix you are talking about?

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x = 7, y = 5, rule = Dominance
5.2A$5.2A$2B2.B$2B.B$4.2B!

Antonin Duda

goldenteeth

I found a slow spaceship.
Speed: 16c/563o
x = 137, y = 89, rule = GoldenTeeth
64.2A5.2A$63.3A5.3A$62.A.3A3.3A.A$62.4A.A.A.4A$61.2A.3A3.3A.2A$60.A.
4A5.4A.A$61.2A.9A.2A$62.4A2.A2.4A$58.5A.9A.5A$57.A4.4A5.4A4.A$57.A3.
2A.9A.2A3.A$57.A.2A.4A2.A2.4A.2A.A$56.A2.4A.9A.4A2.A$58.A.A.4A5.4A ...

Antonin Duda

This pattern I found in SoManyShips2 a while ago seems to be a O(log(n)) growth.
x = 32, y = 27, rule = SoManyShips2
18.A$17.3A$17.BAB$8.2A$9.2A$6.B3.A$5.BA$7.AB$3.A3.B15.2A.B$3.2A18.2A$
4.2A20.B.B$23.B.B$27.2A$25.B.2A4$B.B.B.B$29.B$B.B.B.B$27.B3.B2$27.B3.
B2$27.B3.B2$29.B!

Now I'm wondering ...

Antonin Duda

Completed Thessalonic Demonoid :
ThessalonicDemonoid.mc
This is the first self-constructing spaceship with circuitry made up of only blocks and fishhooks.
The speed is 511c/1677216d. It takes a few minutes to run it a complete cycle in Golly.

It uses single channel construction, rather than my ...

Antonin Duda

If only traffic stop phase shifted the blinkers:

x = 43, y = 27, rule = B3/S23
19b2o$6b2o11bo$7bo9bobo$7bobo7b2o$8b2o$25b2o$26bo$23b3o$23bo2$2o$2o11b
o$11b2ob2o21bo$14bo5bo16bo$19b2ob2o13bo$21bo$33b3o3b3o2$11bo$9b3o$8bo
$8b2o29b2o$25b2o12bo$16b2o7bobo12b3o$15bobo9bo14bo$15bo11b2o$14b2o ...

Antonin Duda

I reduced the population and bounding boxes of the total aperiodic by replacing backrake 2 with a reduced form.

Minor reduction to the population (99 -> 93), but a
significant reduction to the bounding box (44x49 -> 27x29):
x = 27, y = 29, rule = B3/S23
24bo$25bo$2bo5b3o5b3o2bo3bo ...

Antonin Duda

A super simple and incredibly useful, but also ridiculously inefficient step-wise way to shift a block by one cell.
x = 31, y = 7, rule = LifeHistory
31F$F5.F5.F5.F5.F5.F$F3.C.F2.A2.F.CA2.F.2A2.F.2A2.F$F.2A2.F.A.A.F.A.A
.F.A.D.F.2A2.F$F.2A2.F.DA2.F2.A2.F2.A2.F5.F$F5.F5.F5.F5.F5.F$31F!

EDIT: I ...

Antonin Duda

Is this reaction known?
HWSS + Block + Glider = HWSS + Glider reflected

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x = 10, y = 11, rule = B3/S23
3b6o$3bo5bo$3bo$4bo4bo$6b2o2$2o$2o$7b2o$7bobo$7bo!

Antonin Duda

hotdogPi wrote: October 13th, 2025, 7:32 am How are you getting it to work? It says "show pattern error" on my end.

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Antonin Duda

xp2_wg04c8n98czc45r4c813zw11 in 15G
x = 239, y = 161, rule = B3/S23
236bo$236bobo$236b2o21$87bo$88b2o$87b2o3$136bo$136bobo$136b2o3$135bobo
52bo$136b2o50b2o$136bo52b2o2$138bo$138bobo$138b2o23$159bo$15b2obobobo
3b5o126b2o$15bo2b6ob3o130b2o$15b2o3b4ob3o$16bob2o4b6o$19bobob4obo$16b
3ob4o2b3obo ...

Antonin Duda

~28G synthesis of xs72_g88e1v0v1e88gzdlll5t0t5llldzx3470743
soup

x = 114, y = 31, rule = B3/S23
bo5b2obobo2bo2bobob2o5bo$2bobobob3o2b2ob2o2b3obobobo$b3ob4o5b3o5b4ob3o
$2bobo5b2obo3bob2o5bobo$obobobobo2bo3bo3bo2bobobobobo$b7ob3o2b3o2b3ob
7o58b2o13b2o$b3obo2b4obobobob4o2bob3o51bo6b2o13b2o6bo ...

Antonin Duda

(at most) 26G sythesis of xs80_g8owggc97079cggwo8gzhaaaaahy3haaaaahz123w116is0si611w321
Likely to be reduced

soup
x = 151, y = 101, rule = B3/S23
80bo58bo$81bo56bo$79b3o56b3o6$150bo$148b2o$149b2o4$74bo$75b2o$74b2o7$
119bo26bo$100bo16b2o25b2o$101bo16b2o25b2o$99b3o9$17b3obo2b5o$18bo2b3ob
2ob2o ...

Antonin Duda

Antonin Duda wrote: April 26th, 2025, 6:45 am A wild af replicator in Gaussian Neighborhood...
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x = 3, y = 1, rule = R3,C0,S4-7,24-27,B24,28-31,35,NG
3o!

For some reason, patterns in NG behave differently on Golly vs Lifeviewer.
The survival conditions are simply off by one.

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