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What should we have under the statistics page? We could do things like "number of speeds discovered to date", "most common speed", etc... I don't think it could be exactly like the Catagolue page but it could be similar.

@Hibiscus and @H. H. P. M. P. Cole, those both look really good! One question for Hibiscus -- under which tab do you actually find the database of ships? I might be dumb, but maybe we should add a "Rules" page where you find all rules with submitted spaceships, and in those rules you can find the ...

1/2-loopable p516:

x = 93, y = 48, rule = B2e3aijk4cjw5aciny6-en78/S1c2aek3-aceq4acjntwz5acejq6eik7e8
2obo2bo$b2o2bobo61b2obo2bo$obo2b3o62b2o2bobo$69bobo2b3o$4b2o13b3o$4b2o
12bobobo50b2o13b3o$16b2obobobo49b2o12bobobo$bobo10bob3ob3o62b2obobobo$
b3o13b2o51bobo10bob3ob3o$14bo2bobo50b3o13b2o ...

If we're going with a Catagolue-style logo, what object are we using? I would probably use something I've discovered, but that seems unfair, so I'm allowing the community to decide.


I vote we use an loafer, since it's a life-like spaceship with a somewhat rare speed.


I'd also say we could ...

You can customize your background color.


Sure, that sounds like a good idea. In that case, maybe the default can just be grayscale or some very toned-down shades of a different color.

I would also suggest that the person who submits a ship (if they are the first to discover that ship) are ...

I don't have any website creation experience, so I can't -- I'd be happy to help design any art or layout stuff though. Ideally, we could get support from a moderator... I don't know how plausible that is though. Even if we don't have someone to make the website, we can still make some design ...

Endemic (18,2)c/82 ship:

x = 47, y = 15, rule = B2e3aeijy4aejwy5-ejkr6-e7e8/S1c2-k3-ain4aejnq6ac7c
3b4o$3b4o$o3b2o$ob2o$o2b2o8bo$o2b2obo3bo3bo$2ob2o4b2o2bobo$b4o8bo15b5o
$bo2bo7bo2bo14bobo$2bobo10bo14bobo10bo$2b2o8b2obo28b2o$2bo9bob2o27bob
o$12b4o27bo2bo$42b4o$42b2o!


Without B6i, it becomes a ...

Funny self-complementary growing spaceship:

x = 25, y = 7, rule = B3aij4k5-ejkr6-ae78/S2ae3ejkr4-k5-aij678
12b3o$bo2b7o5b3o2bobo$b3o7b5o3b2obobo$12o3b10o$b3o7b5o3b2obobo$bo2b7o
5b3o2bobo$12b3o!

x = 500, y = 500, rule = B3aij4k5-ejkr6-ae78/S2ae3ejkr4-k5-aij678:T500,500
500o$500o$500o$500o$500o ...

Here's a Savannah-like rule with five slopes of spaceship; namely, orthogonal, diagonal, camelwise, flamingowise, and (12,29). Here are the three common spaceships, with speeds 2c/80d, (12,4)c/24, and (6,1)c/19:

x = 98, y = 16, rule = B2e3aeijk4ejqr5acn6cin7c8/S1c2-in3-ae4aiz5ekqy6aik7c8
89b3obo ...

Is there any stable lifelike rule with a minimum speed limit?

I like the idea of bounties -- is the idea that you give away some of your own "points", and then whoever completes your bounty first gets those points? We should probably have a minimum number of points you need to give away to start a bounty, otherwise people could just spam them and cause chaos ...

Self-complementary 30c/626o:

x = 8, y = 5, rule = B2cei3a4ajkn5-knqr6-ae7e8/S1c2ae3knqr4-akry5-a6akn78
bo2bo2bo$7o$bob5o$3b2ob2o$4bo!


x = 100, y = 100, rule = B2cei3a4ajkn5-knqr6-ae7e8/S1c2ae3knqr4-akry5-a6akn78:T100,100
100o$100o$100o$100o$100o$100o$100o$100o$100o$100o$100o$100o$100o$100o ...

A rake that shoots spaceships in all directions: omnirake

x = 5, y = 6, rule = B2e3aeij4aej5cnqy6akn/S1c2-ik3-aiqr4acjnrz5jknq6eik7e
bobo$bobo$o3bo$o3bo$bobo$bobo!


I find the way the p2 wick is created and burned oddly satisfying. It can also be capped by snakes:

x = 65, y = 6, rule = B2e3aeij4aej5cnqy6akn/S1c2-ik3-aiqr4acjnrz5jknq6eik7e
10bobo9bobo ...

I think a snake would hiss when touched (e.g. used as a rock catalyst) but otherwise remain silent. A glider would make a very quiet, rhythmic tick-tock sound as it traveled (making one tick every generation), would let out a quiet breath if it were eaten, and would make a bonking sound when ...

This rule has a plethora of small common spaceships:

x = 6, y = 4, rule = B3-c4j5ak6n7e/S2-kn3-cq4a5aq78
!
[[ RANDOMIZE RANDWIDTH 100 RANDHEIGHT 100 ]]


Here's a collection. From left to right, with the common ones given letter names, they are:

c/16o (P), minpop 12 (evolves from a pi-heptomino ...

7c/54d:
2c/34d:

Endemic 9c/128 in a self-complementary rule:

x = 26, y = 14, rule = B2e3ai4ajqrtw5aciqy6ck7e8/S1c2-ck3ejknr4cejkrtz5-ai6-e78
bobo2bobo$ob4obo13bobo$b6o$8o15b2o$b5o16bob2o$ob2obo15b3o$bobo12bo3bo
2bo$obo16b2o$bo3bo10bobob2o$5bo12b2o$3bobo13bo$2bobo$3bobo$2b4o!

x = 100, y = 100, rule ...

Sorry - I meant life-like CA.

Are there any three-cell spaceships in outer-totalistic CA? If none are known, is it possible to prove that there are none?

Another rule I clicked on in Catagolue recent hauls and played with for a while, this time first run by mathemagician314: b3-q5q6-aks23-a4a8



Whoa! I was messing around in Golly, and found that rule with the glider and some c/21 tech. I apgsearched a few hauls and found that the rule had an ...

Ok, this just feels wrong:

That sounds good to me! How do you propose ships would be uploaded to the site/application, and what scripts would be used for finding spaceships?

Oh sorry, I thought this was INT. In my opinion, INT would make a more interesting database with more things to find, since the OT rulespace isn't huge (although clearly an INT database would take more work to make). If we're focusing on Life-like cellular automata, some of those achievements may ...