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​I didn't expect anyone to be interested in my old notebooks, but here we are.

​Most of my work there was focused on constructing still lifes — I built around a hundred of them in total, developed several rules for assembling increasingly larger structures, and classified them based on their ...

Here are the Devote Parents for some watercraft.
Canoe (17 cells):
x = 9, y = 7, rule = B3/S23
3bobo2$4bobo$2bo3bo$2bob5o$o5bo$2b2obo!

Cis-boat with tail (25 cells):
x = 10, y = 9, rule = B3/S23
8bo$4b2obo$2b7o$o3b4obo$obo$3bobo$bo3bo2$4b2o!

Long ship (52 cells):
x = 12, y = 12, rule = B3/S23 ...

Dear LuveelVoom,

​I became fascinated with Conway's Life back when I was a schoolboy and did a lot of systematic work, but due to various circumstances, there was a nearly 30-year break. Only two months ago did I learn about this website and simulators like Golly. I dug up my old notebooks and ...

I6_I6 wrote: September 22nd, 2026, 3:23 am Hook with tail:

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x = 10, y = 10, rule = B3/S23
3bobo$o2bobo$2b6o$ob3ob4o$o2b5o$2bo$o4bo$bobobo2$4bobo!

Here I found a simpler pattern:

Just a quick note: the Phoenix 1 oscillator is actually a Devote Parent to itself.

Greetings everyone!

I would like to invite the community to join a fun challenge that I call searching for "Devote Parents" (Щирі Батьки by ukrainian).

For a given pattern P1, a Devote Parent is a strict phoenix configuration P0 (where no live cell survives to the next generation, i.e., every cell ...

Hi everyone! Here is an interesting pattern I found. I call this pattern Ring of Sauron. Ring of Sauron is a long-lived methuselah discovered in 1997. Its initial evolution was first analyzed on a ZX Spectrum system and later verified using Golly in 2026.

​The pattern has a lifespan of 6,155 ...