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by otismo
August 30th, 2026, 3:44 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Let's open a gift shop
Replies: 33
Views: 13367

Re: Let's open a gift shop

I am thinking about a MERCH sub-domain on FAV net - if you have catalog-shoppingCart-payment all set up, I will post your

URL/description/photos/etc. Not really thinking about doing the e-commerce thing - unless you've really GOT SOMETHING !

State-of-the-Community August 2026 - 2020 Members ...
by otismo
August 30th, 2026, 3:32 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Life as art
Replies: 24
Views: 20545

Re: Life as art

wln2024 I do have an online art gallery about CA and CGol (and other things like ASCII Art and ShockWave Web Sites and other Art)

and having a "Featured Exhibition" is certainly possible, and would be a first !

Cheers !
by otismo
August 30th, 2026, 2:09 pm
Forum: The Sandbox
Topic: look at these discoveries by my team
Replies: 16
Views: 491

Re: look at these discoveries by my team

Greetings wln2024 !

Welcome to our Community !

You certainly have a unique way of looking at CGoL -

and I like your T-shirts (we need a better way of doing MERCH).

I know you joined in 2024 and only made 34 posts.

I feel that everyone's point-of-view is valid and respectable.

However this ...
by otismo
August 27th, 2026, 5:48 pm
Forum: The Sandbox
Topic: Pioneers
Replies: 1
Views: 62

Pioneers

time to honor our people - conway and tooke and others are gone - whilst others are still kicking

i want to at least add their most noteworthy pattern or say something about their contribution...

Hartmut Holzwarth

Paul Callahan

Mathias Merzenich

David Ingalls Bell

Brice Due - Metacell

Triller ...
by otismo
August 25th, 2026, 1:09 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Let's open a gift shop
Replies: 33
Views: 13367

Re: Let's open a gift shop

or even t shirts - anyone care to design A Life Enthusiast
by otismo
August 21st, 2026, 11:41 am
Forum: The Sandbox
Topic: Colorised Life
Replies: 9
Views: 3621

Re: Colorised Life

the most adorable pattern ever by Chente Rodri

x = 148, y = 118, rule = LifeSuper
63.2pA$63.2pA$3.2G.2G2.2pA4.2pA2.Q2.2Q.Q4.W6.2W2.2G.G2.2G.G2.E2.2E.E
6.2S.2S.S12.2G.2G2.2pA4.2pA2.2A4.2A12.2Q.2Q2.2E4.2E2.2A4.2A$2.G.G.2G
2.pA6.pA2.4Q.2Q3.W.W5.W3.G.2G2.G.2G2.4E.2E5.S.S.S.2S11.G.G.2G2.pA6.pA
2.A5 ...
by otismo
August 19th, 2026, 12:06 pm
Forum: The Sandbox
Topic: Jokes
Replies: 436
Views: 240783

Re: Jokes

Why did the apple turn over ?

Because he saw the jelly roll . . .

<3
by otismo
August 18th, 2026, 12:40 am
Forum: Patterns
Topic: BitMap Printers (was: Re: Stable signal converters)
Replies: 76
Views: 27718

Re: BitMap Printers (was: Re: Stable signal converters)

now here is my first very serious attempt at making a decent bitmap printer

x = 4676, y = 1817, rule = B3/S23
2895bo$2896bo3bo$2887b2o2b2o8bo12b2o$2887b2o2bo5b2o2bo12b2o$2891bobo5b
2o$2892b2o3b3o2$2892b2o3b3o$2891bobo5b2o$2891bo5b2o2bo$2891b2o8bo$
2896bo3bo$2895bo2$2924b2o$2924b2o3$3010bo ...
by otismo
August 15th, 2026, 1:02 am
Forum: The Sandbox
Topic: Telegraph insertion playground
Replies: 1
Views: 1596

Re: Telegraph insertion playground

Cranius

Cranius.mc.gz

now the challenge is what if you were exploring the cgol universe

and came upon this all by your lonesome self

how would you describe it

to your mates

<3

x = 10432, y = 2413, rule = B3/S23
2134b2o$2127b3o4b2o$2117bo8b5o6b2o$2117b3o5bobo3bo5b3o254b4o$2120bo4b ...
by otismo
August 14th, 2026, 6:52 pm
Forum: Website Discussion
Topic: How do we welcome newcomers without discouraging them?
Replies: 41
Views: 3024

Re: How do we welcome newcomers without discouraging them?


Nothing, diddley squat. No rebuke or rebuttal, just a resounding silence. A few nudges asking for a little introspection being met with silence looks increasingly like classical ossification.

https://conwaylife.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=2092

The forum rules repeatedly describe this as an ...
by otismo
August 12th, 2026, 3:08 pm
Forum: The Sandbox
Topic: otismo
Replies: 333
Views: 169465

Re: amling search program principles discussion / brain dump

Cranius

Cranius.mc.gz

now the challenge is what if you were exploring the cgol universe

and came upon this all by your lonesome self

how would you describe it

to your mates

<3

x = 10432, y = 2413, rule = B3/S23
2134b2o$2127b3o4b2o$2117bo8b5o6b2o$2117b3o5bobo3bo5b3o254b4o$2120bo4b ...
by otismo
August 12th, 2026, 3:02 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Golly 5.0
Replies: 24
Views: 3532

Re: Golly 5.0

golly 5.0 ships with less than 10 Mb of patterns

if i add 100 Mb of patterns, can i sell it as an "app"

Thank You !

P.S. how about if i also add the latest version of "the book" in PDF

( i m going to rave about how great all this looks on people's giant screen TVs )
by otismo
August 6th, 2026, 12:55 pm
Forum: The Sandbox
Topic: User sandbox threads
Replies: 6
Views: 1369

Re: User sandbox threads

i guess mine is my username otismo which is getting to be a garbage dump but still worth looking into i think
by otismo
August 5th, 2026, 2:38 pm
Forum: The Sandbox
Topic: Star Gazing
Replies: 3
Views: 261

Re: Star Gazing

last three archives - and do not forget to watch an eighteen-minute video
1-and-2-of-13-photos.zip
very fine-grained ultra-high resolution photography
(8.34 MiB) Downloaded 1 time
3-and-4-of-13-photos.zip
hard to believe we may very soon have even better
(7.45 MiB) Downloaded 2 times
Photo_Six-and-Bonus_Photo.zip
includes bonus photo from video
(6.72 MiB) Not downloaded yet
<3
by otismo
August 5th, 2026, 2:20 pm
Forum: Help / Support
Topic: Thread for basic questions
Replies: 6092
Views: 2047096

Re: Thread for basic questions

Thank You !

That is very well thought out (almost pseudo-code).

Now I expect one of our genius kids will take your recipe and blow our minds . . .

<3
by otismo
August 5th, 2026, 1:55 am
Forum: Help / Support
Topic: Thread for basic questions
Replies: 6092
Views: 2047096

Re: Thread for basic questions

Can anyone think of how to make an Eater for the Leaf Bug please? (read great post above)
by otismo
August 4th, 2026, 9:26 pm
Forum: The Sandbox
Topic: CGoL for Kids
Replies: 17
Views: 11332

Re: CGoL for Kids

x = 152, y = 88, rule = LifeSuper
63.2pA$63.2pA$3.2G.2G2.2pA4.2pA2.Q2.2Q.Q4.W6.2W2.2G.G2.2G.G2.E2.2E.E
6.2S.2S.S16.2G.2G2.2pA4.2pA2.2A4.2A12.2Q.2Q2.2E4.2E2.2A4.2A$2.G.G.2G
2.pA6.pA2.4Q.2Q3.W.W5.W3.G.2G2.G.2G2.4E.2E5.S.S.S.2S15.G.G.2G2.pA6.pA
2.A5.A12.Q.Q.2Q2.E6.E2.A5.A$.G.G7.pA4.pA13.W2.W5.W6.2G17 ...
by otismo
August 4th, 2026, 8:06 pm
Forum: Patterns
Topic: (Engineered) diehards
Replies: 326
Views: 100942

Re: (Engineered) diehards

Welcome to our Community !

I love DieHards - thought you might like this one - seems engineered, very fast-paced, highly entertaining (one gen at a time -

use spacebar in Golly ) - I call these FireCloud DieHards - 1411gens-19X13boundingBox-21cells

x = 19, y = 13, rule = B3/S23
3o$o4$10bo ...
by otismo
August 4th, 2026, 2:58 pm
Forum: The Sandbox
Topic: Cat are good
Replies: 7
Views: 151

Re: Cat are good

Welcome SeaKrait to our Community !

I just love ASCII Art !

Please feel free to post on any of our art threads - usually in Sandbox

[may end up in my online art gallery].

|\---/|
| o_o |
\_^_/

[nice kitty cat]

Cheers !
by otismo
August 3rd, 2026, 11:52 am
Forum: The Sandbox
Topic: FireClouds
Replies: 71
Views: 22829

Re: FireClouds

Fire Gun

P46-HF-Hassler-GUN-Eater

by White Hawk

useful in making fire art etc

x = 78, y = 51, rule = B3/S23
13b2o$13bo$5bob2ob2obo$5b2obobobo$11bo13bo16bo$17b2o4b3o15bobo$15bo2bo
3bo18bob3o$14bo7b2o14b2obo4bo$13b2o23bobobobobo$ob2o8b2o4bo21bobob2o$
2obo17b2o16bobo$10bo4b2o4b2o17bo ...
by otismo
August 3rd, 2026, 1:15 am
Forum: The Sandbox
Topic: I just realized one of the community member has won Gold in IMO2026
Replies: 4
Views: 188

Re: I just realized one of the community member has won Gold in IMO2026

wish i knew what this is all about but it makes me feel good when others are doing well
by otismo
August 3rd, 2026, 12:57 am
Forum: Patterns
Topic: 0E0P constructions
Replies: 143
Views: 64664

Re: 0E0P constructions

OMG this is epic - just tried to read it
by otismo
July 30th, 2026, 3:20 am
Forum: The Sandbox
Topic: Conway
Replies: 7
Views: 3440

Re: Conway

This thread will henceforth and from now on be about my Conway Crowd Funding

deal - which will have at least three rounds of funding and will lead to an Initial Public Offering.

And whereas it may involve Cellular Automata or Conway 's Game of Life, it will not be in the way that I suspect

that ...
by otismo
July 29th, 2026, 4:21 pm
Forum: The Sandbox
Topic: otismo
Replies: 333
Views: 169465

Re: otismo

Presenting :

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