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@Jsboige...

That's quite the speech. Personally, I agree that the tools for working with Life are rather less intuitive than they could be. However, a key point to remember is that they are designed for speed as well as simplicity. A 3D Life editor would be great in some ways, but it would perform ...

I was recently fiddling around in Golly, and I decided to take a pattern, run it, wait for it to settle down, and then paste the original pattern over the final result. After several minutes of doing this, I noticed some very interesting patterns forming, including some pentadecathlons. I also ...

That's an interesting little reaction you've discovered.

Does anyone know of a glider synthesis for eater 3 (or any variants)?

I'll agree with that, it is strangely enjoyable to flip the fleet back and forth... back and forth... back... and forth...

It's a shame that your device only has finite memory. Since you like p30-oriented technology so much, I recommend that you have a look at Paul Callahan's extensible delay-line memory:

x = 400, y = 131, rule = S23/B3
129bo$127boo$128boo14$379b4o$378bo3bo12bobbo$382bo16bo$378bobbo13bo3bo
$396b4o ...

Here... have some impossibly close blinkers:
x = 5, y = 5, rule = lifehistory
F3AF$A3.A$A.F.A$A3.A$F3AF!

You can also chain them together:
x = 29, y = 5, rule = lifehistory
F3AF3AF3AF3AF3AF3AF3AF$A3.A3.A3.A3.A3.A3.A3.A$A.F.A.F.A.F.A.F.A.F.A.F
.A.F.A$A3.A3.A3.A3.A3.A3.A3.A$F3AF3AF3AF3AF3AF3AF3AF ...

calcyman wrote:For your information, Evoloops are included with Golly.

Yes, I am aware of that, I just hadn't figured out how they worked or why they were significant - to me it just looked like a random pretty pattern.

The next step: a spaceship with three or more constructors for the program to pass through

That seems like a fairly pointless modification, unless you have four constructors in a rectangle.

Pointless for the purposes of a pure spaceship, but useful if a Gemini-type spaceship were to be used as ...

Hi everyone,

I haven't really experimented much with using scripts in Golly, and I was hoping to get into it a bit more. First off, I'm looking for a script to find glider syntheses for simple patterns. Can you offer any suggestions, and perhaps a basic explanation of how to use one of these ...

This is the single most impressive pattern in Life that I have ever seen. Great job! The next step: a spaceship with three or more constructors for the program to pass through, and after that, a program capable of modifying its own speed/shape/direction.

Congratulations on this accomplishment, you ...

You could turn the block into a glider and back; e.g.

x = 78, y = 173, rule = B3/S23
30boo44boo$30boo44boo29$30boo44boo$30boo44boo29$30boo44boo$30boo44boo
7$36bo$24b3o8b3o$24bobbo6boobo$24bo9b3o$24bo3bo5b3o$24bo10boo$25bobo3$
39bo$38b3o$37boobo$37b3o$37b3o$37b3o$38boo14$24bo$23b3o$23boboo$24b3o ...

I'm trying to pull a block orthogonally with a spaceship moving the same direction, and not having much luck. The spaceship must survive the reaction unharmed. So far, my only solution has been to create an array of glider rakes, where the gliders pull the block diagonally twice, resulting in an ...

Fuse burns but then burns backwards:
x = 126, y = 126, rule = B3/S23
124b2o$125bo$124bo$123bo$122bo$121bo$120bo$119bo$118bo$117bo$116bo$
115bo$114bo$113bo$112bo$111bo$110bo$109bo$108bo$107bo$106bo$105bo$104b
o$103bo$102bo$101bo$100bo$99bo$98bo$97bo$96bo$95bo$94bo$93bo$92bo$91bo
$90bo$89bo$88bo ...

I was randomly fiddling around with a cordership, and ended up doubling the front of one and removing the back. I put them too close together, but it somehow survived for quite a long time. In the process, I noticed an interesting tagalong that formed, launching gliders backwards at a period of 896 ...