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These puffers are amazing. I'm new and I have no idea how you even begin engineering such things. Are puffers of all famous patterns known ? Is it proved that we can make puffers for all patterns ? These are the coolest things ever.
Technically, yes, we know exactly how to make a puffer for ...

I've been running a huge mess of 3c/6 b2f searches for just about every initialization I could think of. It's definitely still a work in progress, but this easily-solvable reduction to c/2 dropped out for this wick ("double snake"?). The quickest c/2 solution I could slop together, no doubt ...

Welcome to our Community Tinker Magus !

The simple answer to your question is a great big NO !

But I know where you are coming from - I am trying to extend the Queen Bee "Family" -

to the next "size", which would be the KIng Bee !

Bigger SpaceShips require support/stabilization, so our XWSS ...

Does the pattern of lightweight, middleweight, and heavyweight spaceships continue ? I made three guesses but all of them failed ? Does this family end with only these 3 ?


x = 33, y = 37, rule = B3/S23
10bo7b2o$o2bo4bo3bo3bo4bo$4bo8bo8bo$o3bo3bo4bo2bo5bo$b4o4b5o3b6o13$28b
o$4b3o20b3o ...

Does the pattern of lightweight, middleweight, and heavyweight spaceships continue ? I made three guesses but all of them failed ? Does this family end with only these 3 ?


x = 33, y = 37, rule = B3/S23
10bo7b2o$o2bo4bo3bo3bo4bo$4bo8bo8bo$o3bo3bo4bo2bo5bo$b4o4b5o3b6o13$28b
o$4b3o20b3o ...

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What does WLS stand for ? what is it ?
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Thanks. Ok sorry. When you say "rule = B3/S234c" It means that dead cells are born if they have exactly 3 alive neighbors and alive cells ...

I imagine the discussion for B3/S238, B38/S23, and B38/S238 should probably get moved to another thread... (I discovered a small explosion in B38/S238 similar(?) to LoM in Life, and stairstep hexamino in B38/S238 is a methuselah that stabilizes in 3591 generations and outputs 38 gliders)

Now ...

What is this? replicator? x = 44, y = 18, rule = R2,C0,M1,S10..19,B4..4,NM
28bob5o2bo4bo$32b4o2b5o$bo4bo2b5obo18bob7o$b5o2b4o18bobobo3bobo$b7obo
19bo2b4obobo$3bobo3bobobo14b2o2b3obo5bo$4bobob4o2bo13b4o2bobo6bo$bo5bo
b3o2b2o16b3o2bo3bo$o6bobo2b4o14bob4obob2o2bo$2bo3bo2b3o16b2obo3bobob2o ...

That's multistate RLE format , needed when there are more cell states than just ON and OFF (so not actually needed in this case, because there aren't any B's or C's or anything but A's). Periods and A's in multistate format are equivalent to the b's and o's in two-state format, respectively ...

Hi I'm new. I'm a bit familiar with RLE format but what do the "A"s mean in the code below ? And I see some dots too. What are they ?





That's multistate RLE format , needed when there are more cell states than just ON and OFF (so not actually needed in this case, because there aren't any B ...

Hi I'm new. I'm a bit familiar with RLE format but what do the "A"s mean in the code below ? And I see some dots too. What are they ?



Could this help?
x = 34, y = 35, rule = B3s23
2$7.A.A$6.A2.A$5.2A$4.A$3.4A$2.A4.A6.A$2.A2.A5.2A.A$2.A2.A5.A$3.A7.A$
4.4A.A$5.A3.A$6.A$6.5A2$6.5A$6.A$5.A3.A2.A$4 ...