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In this case, you don't really have to put in that 12-bit configuration directly in the pattern, and putting a block directly isn't necessary either. Instead, a simple beehive will do the same thing, and can be present in the initial pattern. Compare generation 85 of the following pattern (which is ...

[...] So how do I find the name [...]? Scroll through the library of pattern names piece by piece? [...]


More or less, yes. It is a good idea to spend some time reading about what is already known.
While there is no guarantee that you will find what you were looking for , you will likely learn ...

I think the quoted text in https://conwaylife.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=212884#p212884 is insufficiently long to be described as "such a long post".

I think the ratio of quoted text length and the reply text length doesn't tell whether a post is problematic. (It's possible to make a quote that is ...

Can this be really called "catalysis"? ColorfulGalaxy somehow called it "catalysis".

#C Unusual Catalysis
x = 36, y = 38, rule = B2-ai3cj4cejr5y7/S02ik3aekn4ci5aeir7c8
o2$o3$30bobo2$7bo2$7bo5$14bo2$14bo5$21bo2$21bo5$28bo2$28bo2$3bobo3$35b
o2$35bo!


Descriptively, it appears that it can indeed ...

The first post is an observation about the very much well-known p424 gun from Pedestrian Life working in a 2tfl rule, which I was unsure had been observed before.


That looks more as a "basic question" rather than a potentially new fact that would be worthy of a separate post in a collection ...

simple replicator in a rule similar to seeds. [...]


Known


Can you elaborate on your statement that it's known? For example, how would one find that out? Posting the word "known" is too terse. It doesn't tell how one would come to know that the observation is indeed well-known or ...

In my opinion, there is inconsistency between the stated goal "get people to post on this topic" and asking people to not do specific kinds of searches they might be legitimately interested in doing. Different people could explore the same topic in different ways, using different tools and methods ...

[...] I am curious though - how do people typically find these final steps? Is it done with a search program?


I suggest to check the first five footnotes in Tutorials/Glider syntheses , as well as the discussion in https://conwaylife.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=335&start=175 with replies by ...

It would be nice to have the discoverer of the p45 clarified, because otherwise the suggested name is likely to be interpreted as attributing the discovery, and people might end up talking about "the oscillator that is not Tanner’s" .

Comparing the p46 and the p45, the longer pi-to-pi conversion is ...

Can you explicitly clarify who is the discoverer of this p45 oscillator? As far as I know, the "Tanner's" oscillator is Tanner's p46 and there is/was no oscillator named "Tanner's p45", so at least it is unclear what "the previous one" refers to.


[...] EDIT: Tanner's p45 (the previous one ...

[...] BTW: is it still called GPSE when it fires perpendicullar gliders? [...]


Tangential note from a curious reader: as far as I know, the acronym "GPSE" usually refers to the glider-producing switch engine specifically (rather than to arbitrary switch engine based glider-emitting puffers).

[...] (Oscillators of all even periods can be made, see viewtopic.php?f=11&t=6970#p212549 ) [...]



a 2x4 block with (n) 2×4 blocks added to the side makes a 2(n) + 2 oscillator. So we have a oscillator for every even period, [...]


That statement is incorrect. For example, "a 2x4 block with ...

What's this pattern's growth rate?
RLE



Looks like linear growth to me.


It's actually quadratic. Watch for a long enough time and it become apparent


No the population growth isn't quadratic. Just because it resembles a growing spiral, doesn't imply any specific population growth ...