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Posted: **April 30th, 2024, 8:57 pm**

Thatonenerd wrote: April 30th, 2024, 6:02 pm Hi!

Hello to you, and welcome to the forums!!

Patterns are usually posted by copying the RLE of the pattern, and pasting it in between BBCode "code" tags (hit the quote button on my post to see how it is formatted). For example, here's a glider, the icon of this site:

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x = 3, y = 3, rule = Life
bo$2bo$3o!

To copy the RLE of a pattern, click the "show in viewer" link on the above box to launch LifeViewer. Then draw your pattern, select it, and press Ctrl+C (not Command+C, if you're on a Mac).

If you're going to be doing serious work with cellular automata, I highly recommend getting Golly if you don't have it already. It can run enormous patterns that LifeViewer can't handle, often with a speedup in the thousands or millions (even billions if it works properly). The process for getting a RLE is the same -- select the patten and hit Ctrl+C. (Except that in Golly you can rebind the 'copy' action to whatever keyboard shortcut you prefer, and IIRC the default on Mac is the familiar Command+C.)

Also, just a word of warning: Oscillators, especially in Star Wars, are relatively common and often useless, so they aren't cataloged. Interesting patterns typically do one of three things: fill a "hole" in existing search efforts (such as the first p19 oscillator, Riley's p19), prove something (such as Ilkka Törmä and Ville Salo's solution to the unique father problem), or do something extremely interesting (such as _zM's computer). If you post the oscillator you found, don't be surprised if you end up being the butt of another "i found a new still life guys!!" joke.

Posted: **May 1st, 2024, 7:46 pm**

Thank you for the info also I do have golly also do you have any tips for an aspiring pattern-finder?

I’m asking everyone, not just wirehead

Posted: **May 12th, 2024, 10:33 pm**

Hello.
My name is Dmitry Maitak.
My favourite subjects are informatics and mathematics. My hobbies are playing chess, playing the piano, solving variations of the Rubik's cube (11x11x11, Petaminx, Sudoku cube).
I became interested in cellular automata in 2020. I remember trying to manually find new spaceships in B3/S35, like these:

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x = 71, y = 15, rule = B3/S35
bo9bo9bo9bo9bo7bo11bo7bo$3o7b3o7b3o7b3o7b3o5b3o9b3o5b3o$obo7bobo7bobo
7bobo7bobo5bobo9bobo5bobo$obo7bobo7bobo6bo3bo5bo3bo3bo3bo11bo3bo$b3o7b
3o7b3o6bobo7bobo5bobo12bo3bo$bo9bo9bo8bobo7bobo5bobo13b3o$bo9bo9bo6bo
5bo5bo3bobo5bo12bo$2bo9bo9bo7bo3bo9bobo3bo14bo$o9bo9bo11bo11bobo$o9bo
9bo21bo3bo$o9bo9bo21bo$o9bo3bo5bo23bo$2bo7bo9bo3bo$12bo7bo$22bo!

In 3-4 years I made several important discoveries (c/6 orthogonal technology, Stag beetle, ShipWorld, (2,1)c/4 and 4c/9 in OTCA, still life syntheses), and I plan to continue my research on CA.
I'm about to go to university to study informatics.

Posted: **May 26th, 2024, 2:19 pm**

another post on my way to reply to every sandbox post on the first page (just to fling me to 500 posts)

welcome to the forums! :D

Posted: **July 10th, 2024, 9:54 am**

Hi,I'm pifricted,an ative user in forum.

In 2023 winter, i knew there is "a wiki for CGoL", and viewed many pages.In May,2024,I had a account.Then i posted my frist rule.

(But i don't find a new pattern in Life yet.)

Posted: **July 10th, 2024, 5:41 pm**

Hello Life Enthusiasts! I am excited to be part of the discussion after several months of observing (I am not sure how long, but it's been over a year since I was around for the discovery of P19 and P41).

I really enjoy seeing some of the discussions here, and hope to be able to contribute more once I learn more coding languages and how to use search programs (I am an aspiring Computer Science minor, not official yet).
Until then, I suppose I will remain mostly in the realm of Other Cellular Automota, where discoveries can be made more easily, or in the Sandbox having fun with CA.

EDIT: Below is a test pattern for posting. It should show a blinker. Please let me know if I am doing something wrong.

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x = 5, y = 4, rule = B3/S23

$b3o!

Posted: **July 10th, 2024, 6:07 pm**

WhiteHawk wrote: July 10th, 2024, 5:41 pm EDIT: Below is a test pattern for posting. It should show a blinker. Please let me know if I am doing something wrong.
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x = 5, y = 4, rule = B3/S23
$b3o!

Use pattern or code tags instead (they're exactly same).
The pattern button is at the right of right of LV button. Click that to summon pattern tags.
You can edit your post by clicking the pencil button at top-right corner.

Posted: **September 20th, 2024, 4:37 pm**

I am Hugh Everett.
My interest in life extends to the early 1970s. More observer and encourage-er than researcher or maker.

Posted: **October 3rd, 2024, 10:43 pm**

I'm LittleLWSS. I was joined at 2024-8-2.

I'm very enthusiastic for GoL.

This is a test, it should show as block.

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2o$2o!

Posted: **October 27th, 2024, 4:13 am**

b-engine wrote: March 28th, 2024, 4:38 am ...

Hard to believe this account is already 1 year old.
I revisited my introduction based on my current status:

Hi, I'm b-engine, a semi-active user on the forums. I only make discoveries in OCA, particularly an accidentally created family - CataProp.

The first rule in CataProp family is Rule:CataProp. Inspired by it, I made Rule:CataProp2 based on B3aeiqy4ei/S1e2-ak3i and B2ci3ai6c/S02aci3i4cetz6ci8.Promise me, I'm not advertising.As soon as development of CataProp 2 started, numerous new rules 如雨后春笋般
appeared, based on the idea of CataProp 2, perhaps with extra state or based on different rule.
I'm planning on CataProp 3, based on this rule:
b-engine wrote: October 23rd, 2024, 12:55 am ...
EDIT:
Better:
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#C c/20o
x = 2, y = 3, rule = B2cei3acik4ez5qy6ik/S12ei3iy4i5i
o$bo$o!
 
...
This sparked me to make CataProp 2, but none of the CataProp-like rules included them:
b-engine wrote: September 28th, 2024, 10:20 pm This rule greatly resembles CataProp, but has zebraships and no splitters:
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#R B2e3aciq4cn6ei/S12-a3i4it5i 
! 
[[ RANDOMIZE ]] 
This has stable eater, but no stable splitter:
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x = 8, y = 10, rule = B2e3aciq4cn5y6ei/S12-a3i4it5i
6bo$6bo6$o$2o4b2o$o!
Puffer:
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x = 8, y = 3, rule = B2e3aciq4cn5y6ei/S12-a3iy4it5i
o$2o4b2o$o!
 
I'm currently finding another rule to pair with CataProto 3.

Posted: **November 12th, 2024, 6:19 pm**

Since my account is a bit more than half a year old now I figured I'd introduce myself.

Hi! I'm d/dx, and if the software you use doesn't support slashes, I'm derivative. I live in southern Poland. just kidding, I actually live inside your walls
CA is more of a casual hobby than a serious thing for me, I tried apgsearching once but just kind of stopped.
All of my tiny discoveries go into my sandbox thread (which is right below this post). I also maintain a growing family of Pinker Bluffers.
Sometimes I make a rule. My biggest pride here is my 2c/17 wishbone from plaines.

My user page: User:Derivative

cheers.

Posted: **December 8th, 2024, 7:36 pm**

Half year old? Ha! My account is two and I still haven’t introduced myself. I’ve been interested in CA for years, joined this forum in 2022 to post some random boring explosive INT rule that broke naming conventions, and then left for a two year hiatus, but recently have gotten interested again. I mostly like OCA.

Posted: **January 5th, 2025, 8:57 pm**

Posted: **February 10th, 2025, 10:00 pm**

I got interested in Conway's Game of Life when I read the original Martin Gardner article in Scientific American. In 1970 I was the only person in my high school that used the Honeywell Time Share system and I went through reams of paper printing Life patterns. My interest in CA continued through the years. I retain my copy of Cellular Automata Machines. It was inspirational.

My ModernCA Java applet was designed for creating web-based exhibits. It was small, fast, and multi-state. It supported color, a generalized version of alternating rules, and hexagonal geometry. With it I created a Modern Cellular Automata site and a Color Game of Life Visual Exhibition site. Visitors to the Modern Cellular Automata site were immediately confronted with six different CA all running at once on the main page. Eventually I used the applet to create ModernCA Author. It used javascript to create collections of rules and patterns that could be embedded into web pages.

The rule notation I developed for the applet is entirely based upon a weighted counting algorithm that distinguishes near neighbors from far neighbors. Using weighted counting is fast. It provides a multitude of colors for free and it allows fine-grained specification of state transitions. The web site had running exhibits of Generations rules as well as a running reversible CA exhibit.

Life happens. Java went away and so did my web sites. I took a break from CA.

When I restarted CA activities I was pointed to ConwayLife. My problems creating an account were resolved after I figured out I signed up in 2011. Much has changed since then. I'm quite impressed that I can come here and click and be viewing running CA immediately.

My main interest is in fast CA and dynamic rules which produce large scale emergent patterns when viewed in color. PM's welcomed.

Posted: **March 20th, 2025, 10:10 am**

I'm not new to this forum, but I forgot to introduce myself, so...

Hello! I'm PiSpaceships, formerly known as TBPO. I'm interested in cellular automata and constructed languages. I made a lot of CA and I'm still making new ones. My rules are in the link on my signature.

Posted: **March 31st, 2025, 8:36 pm**

I'm Matt McIrvin--I've been interested in Life and cellular automata in general ever since the 1980s, brought in by columns by Martin Gardner, Douglas Hofstadter and A. K. Dewdney in Scientific American, and William Poundstone's pop book The Recursive Universe (in which he covered topics like a sketch of how one might build a universal computer/constructor in Life--actually running such a thing was beyond the computer capacity of the time, but now you can run one in Golly on your own computer).

I was trained as a physicist but went into software after grad school, but my messing around with CA and other topics in recreational mathematics (fractal geometry, turtle graphics, recurrence sequences, properties of the Riemann zeta function, old-fashioned calculating devices) was always a decidedly extracurricular hobbyist thing, born of the same youthful messing around with computers that led to my actual paying career.

I haven't done much of actual significance with CA, and what little I have, I've pretty much mentioned in the forums already. I'm interested on OCA and particularly, at the moment, close variants of Conway Life and how perturbing the rules in small ways perturbs the automaton's "natural" behavior.

Posted: **April 4th, 2025, 11:30 am**

Hello, I'm dl-rs. Well...
Perhaps some of you still remember the huge mess I got into nearly three years ago. Of course, I wasn't a good user then. At least you've got to give me credit for being better now, if only for a bit.
My username is dl-rs, and I'm occupied with Mathematical Olympiads lately. My other accounts include: XAN4 on AoPS and NuclearDog on many other websites. I'd be delighted to reply to PMs, especially concerning MO.
I live in China. It's great here. I'm in class 12, and there's even another CA enthusiast in class 11.
I'm mainly focused on OCA(especially INT), though I still try to mess with CGOL. My hobbies change. For example, when I created this account, I was interested with the music of two mobile games...

GUYTU6J wrote:... Judging from the behaviour, I guess the username is inspired from two mobile games, if not from two chemical concepts?

...but that's a bit off-topic. Anyway, I'm currently a CA-enthusiast. As for scripting and programming, I know some basics but I'm not good. I usually do small projects with HTML and JS, like this.
That's all I have to say - I mean, type, for now.

Posted: **May 23rd, 2025, 11:03 am**

Hello, people viewing this introduction of me. My username is Resu (the word "user" backward).
I have nothing else to put here except this. xs37_g6s178b96z11w6519e0e93

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x = 9, y = 13, rule = B3/S23
3b2o$3bo2b2o$4b3o$8bo$b2o3b3o$bobobo$3bobob2o$o2bobo2bo$3o3b2o2$3o$o2b
o$2b2o!

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testing

Posted: **June 30th, 2025, 8:57 am**

Hi, I am Ambrož!! (it is pronounced ambrozh for anyone wondering - ž is like the z in azure)

I am very new to this! I did have an on-and-off fascination with this game when I was younger, but just recently regained interest in it. Admittedly a lot of the words here are confusing but I’m sure I’ll pick it up eventually :p
I don’t have much of an internet presence outside of a twitter I rarely use, discord, and a (somewhat) small website called toyhouse, which is just dedicated to uploading/cataloguing characters and such
I am czech but I can’t fluently speak in Czech, I’m working on it though haha

Posted: **July 18th, 2025, 12:06 am**

Hello, I call myself enofet. I have been fascinated with cellular automata for the past ~10 years now. I also love mathematics and nature. I have made several patterns which I will post to this site soon.

Posted: **July 18th, 2025, 12:13 am**

enofet wrote: July 18th, 2025, 12:06 am Hello, I call myself enofet. I have been fascinated with cellular automata for the past ~10 years now. I also love mathematics and nature. I have made several patterns which I will post to this site soon.

Remember to post in general threads such as Miscellaneous discoveries in OCA or Thread for your unsure discoveries (in Conway's Life) first.

Posted: **August 22nd, 2025, 11:06 am**

hello i am (paste my name here).i found GoL in sbd's video about 5 years ago(btw i'm about 12) angd i like it till nouw.i'm from c让我hyi们n说a中文.i like not only CA but MUCH more.i have some accounts omn other websites and you can search somewhere to see if i have an account on that wedbsite.
That's all for now.

Posted: **November 22nd, 2025, 4:27 pm**

I enjoy Conway's game of life (and its variants) so I thought "why not join this forum".

Posted: **December 7th, 2025, 7:51 am**

con922 wrote: November 22nd, 2025, 4:27 pm I enjoy Conway's game of life (and its variants) so I thought "why not join this forum".

Welcome!

Posted: **December 11th, 2025, 1:54 pm**

Hello! I am someone who is obsessed with CA and is possibly (definitely) suffering from LWTDS.
I found out about CGoL sometime this summer (summer in the northern hemisphere).

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