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toroidalet wrote: March 24th, 2021, 7:49 pm My apologies. I had one but I forgot I was supposed to post it.

A reaction that turns an uninteresting but complicated still life into an interesting non-still life. (Not "component")

Freeze-dry reaction?

Nope. Think a big giant mangled thing rather than a constellation.

Seed?

That's also a relatively simple constellation. I'm talking about a giant mangled still life that you bash into something more interesting.

Conversion?

Final step?

Activation?

The "pattern" was "activation step", so I'll award that to Anonymous Glider. I'll PM you the next target by tomorrow.

toroidalet wrote: March 25th, 2021, 3:07 pm The "pattern" was "activation step", so I'll award that to Anonymous Glider. I'll PM you the next target by tomorrow.

Isn't final step activation?

I suppose you're right. It's not as close, but it was first, so wwei35±12 gets the pattern instead. Luckily, I had forgotten about this whole thing and hadn't decided on one yet.
EDIT: wwei(x^2-70x+1081=0) has been sent the message.

A pattern whose population alternates between 20 and 22 cells.

wwei47 wrote: March 25th, 2021, 10:09 pm A pattern whose population alternates between 20 and 22 cells.

Is it confused eaters?

MathAndCode wrote: March 25th, 2021, 10:33 pm Is it confused eaters?

Ouch. I was hoping that my vagueness would work better than it did. Check your Discord soon.

It's a sparker that is supported by another sparker of the same period.

MathAndCode wrote: March 25th, 2021, 10:45 pm It's a sparker that is supported by another sparker of the same period.

104p9

Hunting wrote: March 25th, 2021, 10:48 pm104p9

Yes, that's correct.

Hunting wrote: March 25th, 2021, 10:48 pm 104p9

I'm curious how you figured that out so easily. There's 209P8, 1320P7's trimer. one of my V sparkers, crown, and some random jslife sparker. Oh, and the P7 pipsquirter chain, too.

wwei47 wrote: March 25th, 2021, 10:55 pmI'm curious how you figured that out so easily. There's 209P8, 1320P7's trimer. one of my V sparkers, crown, and some random jslife sparker. Oh, and the P7 pipsquirter chain, too.

Maybe Hunting figured that since you were the one who chose the pattern, and that is your profile picture, you would be likely to think of that.

MathAndCode wrote: March 25th, 2021, 10:59 pm

wwei47 wrote: March 25th, 2021, 10:55 pmI'm curious how you figured that out so easily. There's 209P8, 1320P7's trimer. one of my V sparkers, crown, and some random jslife sparker. Oh, and the P7 pipsquirter chain, too.

Maybe Hunting figured that since you were the one who chose the pattern, and that is your profile picture, you would be likely to think of that.

104P9 is wwei's favorite pattern not just his profile picture. And when you mention "period".

Ok now here's mine:

Something that served the same purpose in LeapLife and Life.

(Apologies - but if I limit the hints to usual CGOL knowledge it would be figured out soon.)

dr?
Sparkers?
Glider?
XWSSes?

wwei47 wrote: March 26th, 2021, 7:14 am dr?
Sparkers?
Glider?
XWSSes?

It's a pattern.

More hint: MathAndCode referred to it with a word appended. bubblegum once ranted him of that word.

Hunting wrote: March 26th, 2021, 7:32 am More hint: MathAndCode referred to it with a word appended. bubblegum once ranted him of that word.

Pi?

wwei47 wrote: March 26th, 2021, 7:34 am

Hunting wrote: March 26th, 2021, 7:32 am More hint: MathAndCode referred to it with a word appended. bubblegum once ranted him of that word.

Pi?

Very close, very close. I'm sure you'll get it with this final hint: It is not the bottleneck in LeapLife, but it is the bottleneck in CGoL.

Hunting wrote: March 26th, 2021, 7:40 am Very close, very close. I'm sure you'll get it with this final hint: It is not the bottleneck in LeapLife, but it is the bottleneck in CGoL.

H'?

Hunting wrote: March 26th, 2021, 7:32 am More hint: MathAndCode referred to it with a word appended. bubblegum once ranted him of that word.

Ouch.