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NNlk05 wrote: May 26th, 2026, 7:10 am The most likely reason that you think it hasn't stabilized is because of the outward-travelling gliders. The gliders prevent the pattern from becoming periodic as a whole. You may want to check out apgsearch, which handles glliders and spaceships.

Thank you for your help!!

on the off chance that a i may have just possibly joined our community
i want to remind everyone that it is still just a baby - we need to help a i understand what "noteworthy" is

i had this exact same difficulty when i decided to "get serious" in 2019

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Man, I'm not trying to upset anyone ...

Thank you for taking your time in what I post. I wanted to mention this:

1.The lifespan numbers: the 4,928 and 4,726 generation counts refer to how long each pattern takes to fully stabilize on an infinite grid (verified in Golly 5.0), not when the honey farm structure first appears.
2. The ...

Thank you for taking your time in what I post. I wanted to mention this:

1.The lifespan numbers: the 4,928 and 4,726 generation counts refer to how long each pattern takes to fully stabilize on an infinite grid (verified in Golly 5.0), not when the honey farm structure first appears.
2. The ...

Some comments:
1. Is this AI-generated? It sure does somewhat look like it is. Also the triple backticks note seems to affirm it since most AIs use Markdown for formatting.
2. Those are honey farm predecessors.
3. Generally, a pattern is only considered a methuselah if it lasts for more than 100 ...

Alright. But, i don't think it makes stuff up. For me that I don't have a lot of knowledge in this subject. I was bored and decided to run an experiment


AI does make up stuff. Search up "AI hallucination". I still suggest you read up on the game of life.




Sure. Thank you very much for ...

Welcome to the Forums!

1. It is, i'm having trouble to analize the data. And also trying to write in english which is not my mother tongue.


AI have the habit of making things up. For example, P usually stands for the period of an oscillator . Please try to use a translation serves such as ...

Some comments:
1. Is this AI-generated? It sure does somewhat look like it is. Also the triple backticks note seems to affirm it since most AIs use Markdown for formatting.
2. Those are honey farm predecessors.
3. Generally, a pattern is only considered a methuselah if it lasts for more than 100 ...

Hi all — posting a discovery from a recent random 5×5 search that I'd like to document on LifeWiki once my account has enough edits.

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EDIT by dvgrn: : replaced triple backticks with [pattern​] tags to enable LifeViewer.

The patterns

P503 (12 cells):
x = 5, y = 5, rule = B3/S23
ob3o$bob2o ...