Life illusions

[drc]

1. Copy the pattern below
2. Paste into Golly (I'm using 2.8 )
3. Turn off gridlines, press play and hold F, look at the center.
4. It looks like a knightship! Probably. At least it looked like it for me.

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x = 11, y = 53, rule = B3/S23
2b2o$o4bo$6bo$o5bo$b6o3$2b4o$b6o$b4ob2o$5b2o4$2b6o$bo5bo$7bo$bo4bo3$6b
2o$2b4ob2o$2b6o$3b4o$4b2o$2bo4bo$8bo$2bo5bo$3b6o3$4b4o$3b6o$3b4ob2o$7b
2o4$4b6o$3bo5bo$9bo$3bo4bo3$8b2o$4b4ob2o$4b6o$5b4o$6b2o$4bo4bo$10bo$4b
o5bo$5b6o!

[Saka]

A fun one with lifeviewer

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x = 36, y = 9, rule = B3/S23
24bo11b$22bobo11b$12b2o6b2o12b2o$11bo3bo4b2o12b2o$2o8bo5bo3b2o14b$2o8b
o3bob2o4bobo11b$10bo5bo7bo11b$11bo3bo20b$12b2o!
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[Ethanagor]

A fun one with lifeviewer

It took me longer than I am willing to admit to figure out what was happening...

Sidenote: A Gosper Glider Gun in Golly on Hyperspeed mode alternates between a few different illusions: one where the whole stream of gliders is a big blur, a few where the gliders turn into random blobs, and one where the gliders look really slow.

[Rich Holmes]

1. Copy the pattern below
2. Paste into Golly (I'm using 2.8 )
3. Turn off gridlines, press play and hold F, look at the center.
4. It looks like a knightship! Probably. At least it looked like it for me.

Pressing and holding F doesn't seem to do anything on my computer. It centers the pattern once and that's it.

[drc]

1. Copy the pattern below
2. Paste into Golly (I'm using 2.8 )
3. Turn off gridlines, press play and hold F, look at the center.
4. It looks like a knightship! Probably. At least it looked like it for me.

Pressing and holding F doesn't seem to do anything on my computer. It centers the pattern once and that's it.

It should be like the autofit feature...maybe an outdated version of golly?

[fluffykitty]

Holding F doesn't seem to work on Mac

[ColorfulGabrielsp138]

Coe ship
Click the pattern in the infobox, then set the Ticks per Second to 60.
The spaceship seem to travel backwards.

There doesn't seem to be any other spaceship that travels like this.
By the way, there is a thread for your trolls.

[breaker's glider gun]

Coe ship
Click the pattern in the infobox, then set the Ticks per Second to 60.
The spaceship seem to travel backwards.

There doesn't seem to be any other spaceship that travels like this.
By the way, there is a thread for your trolls.

sadly, lifeviewer has changed. It is now harder to do something like that.

[Moosey]

sadly, lifeviewer has changed. It is now harder to do something like that.

You can hit + and - to fine-tune the speed at which it runs, btw

[breaker's glider gun]

sadly, lifeviewer has changed. It is now harder to do something like that.

You can hit + and - to fine-tune the speed at which it runs, btw

yeah, but You can't make it go slowly backwards.
also, the loop is too short.

[yujh]

sadly, lifeviewer has changed. It is now harder to do something like that.

You can hit + and - to fine-tune the speed at which it runs, btw

yeah, but You can't make it go slowly backwards.
also, the loop is too short.

You still can at 60 gen per sec

[breaker's glider gun]

You can hit + and - to fine-tune the speed at which it runs, btw

yeah, but You can't make it go slowly backwards.
also, the loop is too short.

You still can at 60 gen per sec

yeah, but it goes wobbldey wobbldey.

[breaker's glider gun]

the last of these:

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x = 36, y = 9, rule = TripleLife
23.2C$23.C.AB$9.B.C12.3AB6.2G$7.B3AC2.B2C8.2AC6.2G$2G5.C3A3.2A8.3AB$2G
4.BA2.AB2.2A.A.2C2.C.AB$7.C3A4.C.C.AC2.2C$7.B3AC3.A.2CB$9.B.C!

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x = 50, y = 25, rule = TripleLife
16$33.ABE$33.ABDBE$17.CF17.DCF4.2G$15.C2AEF13.A2.DBCD3.2G$9.2G2.DG.A.
AEF3.A11.DCF$9.2G2.GF.C.AEGD4.2A.C3.ABDBE$13.DG.A.AEF4.4A.C2.ABE$15.C
2AEF5.CA.B2C$17.CF!

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x = 38, y = 11, rule = TripleLife
26.D$25.B4D$10.D13.A2B2F2D5.2D$9.F.D5.2D5.2ACG2BD4.BFD$2.2D3.DG.B.D3.
2B7.AC2EFD3.ACB$.BFD2.BGDA.BD2.2AD.D.2D2.A2FGF4.2A$ACB2.ACFD.ABD3.B.F
D2B.D.CG2C$2A3.ACB.DAF3.A.CB2A.F.AC2A$5.2A.B.G5.2A.D.CD.A$7.A.C8.B.AB
$8.A8.A2.A!

looks really strange...

EDIT: this looks weirder, especially at 16 or 15x:

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x = 44, y = 36, rule = TripleLife
23.A$23.2A$11.2A11.2A8.2A$10.3A3.A6.B3A7.2A$2A5.A.2A4.4A4.BCA$2A5.A2.
A2B2.A4.A2.ACB$7.A.AC2B3.C3.A2.E3B7.2B$7.B.BC2A2.B2CBA3.DFB8.2B$2B5.B
2.B2E2.B4.B2.BFD8.2D$2B5.B.BF2D3.F3.B2.B3D7.2D$2D5.D.DF2B2.D2FDB4.2D$
2D5.D2.D2B2.D4.D2.DE.A$7.D.2D5.D3.D2.D.2A$10.3D3.2D.D5.A$11.2D11.B.B$
25.2B$25.B$24.D.D$25.2D5.A$25.D7.2A$32.2A$32.B$33.2B$32.2B$32.D$33.2D
$32.2D6.2A$40.A.A$42.A$40.2B2A$40.B.B$42.B$40.2D2B$40.D.D$42.D$42.2D!
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