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Here's the CGoL screensaver I use right now. There may be a way to turn this into a video.


I feel like having a screensaver constantly updating in the background would be distracting. The way I think this could best be dealt with is by slowly fading in the next generation over the course of ...

hotdogPi wrote: September 7th, 2026, 10:03 am I don't remember whose videos they were. One of them was in French.

Definitely not me, then! But given the Frenchs' history and the generations of sublime mathematicians they brought forth (they and the Russians, gotta hand it to them...), I can only imagine that those must be very good videos.

While I haven't watched them myself, I know we've gotten a few influxes of new members from YouTube videos over the years. Keep doing it!


Are you implying that I might be responsible for this? :shock: I'd feel flattered, mind you - but I don't think any of my work as gotten enough reach to be ...

Hello, fellow Game of Life enthusiasts!

Some of you may know that I take a rather ... how to put this delicately? ... "playful" approach to Game of Life, so I'm not necessarily a hardcore researcher into the mathematical side of things here.

Regardless, as a side effect of me fooling around with ...

(by the way, some time ago I made compression related competition [hosted on GitHub], as a result - no one except for me was interested in it. It is nice to see people who are still interested in this topic)


Vort, this is a fantastic idea and I am saddened that so few people took an interest ...

If you could give us a couple of examples across a variety of patterns (sparsely/densely populated, containing a lot of repeat patterns, random soups) and compare your optimization with existing RLE, that would surely help to sell this!

TONIGHT: Grand Finale of HASHWAR Week 34 *** LIVE ***

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Tonight's weekly finale will be cast live on our dedicated channel ■ https://www.youtube.com/@lifehashes

*** 23:00h CEST *** 21:00h UTC *** 5:00 PM EDT *** 4:00 PM CDT *** 2:00 PM PDT ***

Get the current stats for Glyph and ...

Bracket Draw of the 16 contestants for tonight's weekly Grand Finale:
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Congratulations specifically to unname4798 ("BLINKER HAVEN") and SecondTypist ("NAME KEPT PG-13") which scored 44,559 and 53,697 points in the Group Phase, respectively.

Follow along the weekly stats ...

Update on the current state of the affairs:

The currently longest-lived known pattern on the torus is "it_took_soooooooooooo_long_help" (32x32), submitted by Phnx and which runs for 9,786 unique generations (no configuration previously held). This is remarkable for two reasons:

1. Given the ...

Gentlepeople and GOL enthusiasts,

I have updated the Glyph Registry https://lifehashes.net/login/registry.php to make filtering by Grid Size possible:
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With the introduction of the Sparse-Dense Challenge (https://lifehashes.net/login/sparse-dense-challenge.php) that ...

I discovered this pattern in February 2026 but didn't realize what I had in hand (I was just puzzled that on the 16x16 torus, this pattern gives humongous non-repeating generational counts, far higher than previous patterns evolved from soups):


x = 16, y = 16, rule = B3/S23:T16,16
bobo12b$o2bo12b ...

Dear moderators,

I humbly request my newly created LifeWiki account, Hash0 , to be added to the trusted accounts.

I would like to add the following pattern that I discovered in February 2026 and which was subsequently identified to be a previously unknown Agar of periodicity 314 by forum user ...

Line-Up for Series 34 confirmed:
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Who do you think will win this week?

See the live-streamed drawing (including fetching of the latest Randomness Beacon Pulse issued by the U.S. National Institute for Standards and Technology to ensure fairness) here: ■ https://youtube ...

From your previous posts, it seems like you are under the impression that these patterns evolving through an arbitrary ruleset and outputting something that looks vaguely similar to a landform somehow reveals the origin of some symbols. I would like to inform you that you are objectively wrong ...

May I suggest to present this idea to reddit - the audience there might be more welcoming for tangential ideas like this /s

Hey, Vort! Admit it: You're an alt account for Grigori Perelman, right?

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Congratulations to Phnx for fielding the top two Glyphs in this group! Those two and Bobinou's "Cold Ice Tea" already qualified for the weekly finale on Saturday!

The four Glyphs indicated in yellow will have to compete against each other on Friday ("Redemption Day") to ...

The first Weekly Series for weight class 600 has begun - here is the official drawing of 32 contestant Glyphs (fairness guaranteed by seeding the Fisher-Yates shuffle algorithm with a compressed Randomness Beacon Pulse issued by the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology):

000 SUNDAY ...

Gentlepeople, Game of Life enthusiasts and general computational sports nerds!

We are pleased to announce the schedule for the rest of 2026 for you to peruse, plan, and scheme: ■ https://lifehashes.net/hashwar-scheduler/yearly-overview.php

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Get your Glyphs in order and ...

I hear you, gentlepeople, and I think you are right. I'll place an API (and a background checker that bypasses the runtime output to the browser so that you don't have to wait) on my feature wishlist.

Gentlepeople and GOL lovers,

we are starting the next 6 week long tournament series for GOL patterns on the 16x16 torus with non-repeating generational count between 600 and 699 (B3/S23 ruleset).

The draw for the first weekly series will be after tomorrow, Sunday, 23rd August, 22:00 CEST , so ...

... if you guys continue with this, I'll soon have to implement a submission throttle to protect my API endpoints!

I've been running a miner half a day for 100 million plus patterns on the 20x20 torus but could not find any new Agar (or the known Agar p314, for that matter). The currently longest-lived pattern there runs for 2,813 unique generations (owned by Vort, no surprise there...).

Is it possible that ...

Huh... that's an issue with the RLE parser, I'll look into it. Can you submit your entry in binary for the time being?

Gentlepeople, adjust your miners and clear your kernels! I am opening up this challenge for toroidal grids of sizes above 16x16: Let's explore the sparse and dense patterns on 20x20, 24x24, 28x28, and 32x32!

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I am convinced that we are going to see more interesting patterns ...