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Jormungant wrote: February 3rd, 2021, 11:37 am I would have preferred the left one, but the parity god hates me lately:

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x = 253, y = 132, rule = LifeHistory
12$197.2A$198.A$198.A.AB$199.2AB$201.6B14.2B$201.4BC2B2.6B4.4B.2B5.B$
200.3B3C23B.6B.2B$197.AB.4BC31B3D$196.A.A39BD$197.A2B.35B3DB$198.B.
39B$199.38B$198.33B.4B$197.21B3.5B.2B3.4B$196.4B2.16B4.4B7.2B$195.4B
3.15B3.5B$194.4B2.9B.3B7.2A$193.4B3.10B11.A$192.4B3.10B9.3A$191.4B4.
9B10.A$190.4B5.10B$51.2A136.4B6.9B$52.A135.4B6.11B$52.A.AB131.4B8.10B
$53.2AB131.3B9.9B$55.6B14.2B110.3B10.8B.2B$55.4BC2B2.6B4.4B.2B5.B100.
3B10.10B2A$54.3B3C23B.6B.2B104.B2.10B2A$51.AB.4BC31B3D103.2AB.8B.2B$
50.A.A39BD103.2A11B$51.A2B.35B3DB103.B.10B$52.B.39B108.3B.4B$53.38B
108.4B3D5B$52.33B.4B109.2C2.B.4B2C$51.21B3.5B.2B3.4B110.C2.B3D2BC.C$
50.4B2.16B4.4B7.2B108.3C3.2BDB4.C$49.4B3.15B3.5B118.C4.3B3D3.2C$48.4B
2.9B.3B7.2A126.7B$47.4B3.10B11.A126.9B$46.4B3.10B9.3A128.9B$45.4B4.9B
10.A130.5B$44.4B5.10B139.B6.2B$43.4B6.9B140.B5.2B2C$42.4B6.11B139.B5.
2B2C$41.4B8.10B139.B7.2B$41.3B9.9B140.6B$41.3B10.8B.2B137.7B.B$41.3B
10.10B2A135.11B$51.B2.10B2A136.8B.2B$50.2AB.8B.2B136.9B$50.2A11B122.
2A14.9B$51.B.10B123.A14.10B$55.3B.4B123.A.AB.3B7.5B2A3B$53.4B3D5B122.
2AB.5B5.5B2A4B$53.2C2.B.4B2C124.7B5.11B$54.C2.B3D2BC.C123.8B4.4BD7BA.
2A$51.3C3.2BDB4.C88.3B31.10B5.B3D4B2.2A.A$51.C4.3B3D3.2C72.A13.4B29.
11B4.2BD2B2D2B$56.7B76.3A10.4B30.13B2.8B$56.9B77.A8.4B30.16B2.6B.BA$
25.3B29.9B75.2A7.4B30.18B.7BA.A$10.A13.4B29.5B79.5B3.4B30.27B.2A$10.
3A10.4B29.B6.2B78.3B2.4B30.27B$13.A8.4B30.B5.2B2C67.2A7.9B30.28B$12.
2A7.4B31.B5.2B2C67.A8.8B32.28B$12.5B3.4B32.B7.2B64.2A.A.B3.10B33.27B
2.BA$14.3B2.4B33.6B68.A2.3AB.2B2A2BD4B32.30BA.A$4.2A7.9B34.7B.B66.2A
2.BA3B2A2BDBD2B32.31BA$4.A8.8B34.11B67.4A7B2D3B32.29B.B$.2A.A.B3.10B
36.8B.2B66.A.2B3.7B.B2A31.26B$.A2.3AB.2B2A2BD4B35.9B70.3AB2.7B.BA.A
30.25B$2.2A2.BA3B2A2BDBD2B35.9B73.A4.4B5.A30.22B$4.4A7B2D3B35.10B67.
5A5.4B5.2A29.12B.4B$4.A.2B3.7B.B2A33.5B2A3B67.A10.4B35.10B5.B$5.3AB2.
7B.BA.A26.A5.5B2A4B68.A9.4B34.10B4.3B$8.A4.4B5.A26.3A3.11B67.2A10.4B
32.10B5.B2AB$3.5A5.4B5.2A16.A11.A2.4BD7BA.2A75.4B31.10B6.2A$3.A10.4B
22.3A8.2A4.B3D4B2.2A.A102.2A6.10B$5.A9.4B24.A7.6BD2B2D2B110.A7.9B$4.
2A10.4B10.A11.2A3.B5.10B111.A.AB4.9B.2B$17.4B7.3A11.8B2.11B101.A10.2A
B.14B2A$18.4B5.A16.19B88.4B7.3A11.17B2A$12.2A5.4B4.2A15.20B2A86.4B5.A
15.14B.2B$12.A7.9B14.21B2A80.2A5.4B4.2A15.13B$13.3A5.6B14.25B80.A7.9B
14.14B.2B$16.A5.6B3.B2.2B3.25B83.3A5.6B14.18B2A$13.2AB.A4.16B.2BD14B
4.4B86.A5.6B3.B2.2B3.18B.B2A$12.A2.2AB3.16B.3BDBD4B.6B6.B.B2A.A79.2AB
.A4.16B.2BD15B2.B$12.2A2.14B2A6B.2B3D4B2.B.5B6.B2AB3A76.A2.2AB3.16B.
3BDBD4B.8B$17.13B2A5B.5BD4B7.2A8.B4.A75.2A2.14B2A6B.2B3D4B2.7B$18.29B
8.A8.2A.3A81.13B2A5B.5BD4B2.7B$18.17B.4B16.3A4.A2.2A84.29B3.7B$19.15B
24.A4.2A87.17B.4B11.7B$19.15B5.A3.2A108.15B.4B12.7B$20.13B5.A.A3.A
108.19B.A3.2A6.6B$22.13B2.A.A3.A110.17B.A.A3.A7.5B$21.8B4.2A.A.A3.A
113.14B.A.A3.A7.5B$21.6B6.2ABA2.4A.A110.8B4.2A.A.A3.A8.5B$21.5B8.B2.A
.A3.A.A109.6B6.2ABA2.4A.A8.B.B$21.B.B9.2A.2A2.A2.A.A109.5B8.B2.A.A3.A
.A6.3B$22.3B9.A.A2.2A3.A110.B.B9.2A.2A2.A2.A.A6.B2AB$21.B2AB9.A.A119.
3B9.A.A2.2A3.A8.2A$22.2A11.A119.B2AB9.A.A$156.2A11.A!

Note that this spark only works adding a block to that specific b-to-h, I would have preferred a spark from a g-to-X or glider activated factory, but was not so lucky as far as I can tell. But it works at least.

addendum: parity god wrath strikes again...

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x = 96, y = 109, rule = LifeHistory
12$40.2A$41.A$41.A.AB$42.2AB$44.6B14.2B$44.4BC2B2.6B4.4B.2B5.B$43.3B
3C23B.6B.2B$40.AB.4BC31B3D$39.A.A39BD$40.A2B.35B3DB$41.B.39B$42.38B$
41.33B.4B$40.21B3.5B.2B3.4B$39.4B2.16B4.4B7.2B$38.4B3.15B3.5B$37.4B2.
9B.3B7.2A$36.4B3.10B11.A$35.4B3.10B9.3A$20.A13.4B4.9B10.A$20.3A10.4B
5.10B$23.A8.4B6.9B$22.2A7.4B6.11B$22.5B3.4B8.10B$24.3B2.4B9.9B$14.2A
7.10B10.8B.2B$14.A8.10B10.10B2A$11.2A.A.B3.10B10.B2.10B2A$11.A2.3AB.
2B2A2BD4B9.2AB.8B.2B$12.2A2.BA3B2A2BDBD2B9.2A11B$14.4A7B2D3B10.B.10B$
14.A.2B3.7B.B2A12.3B.4B$15.3AB2.7B.BA.A9.4B3D5B$18.A4.4B5.A9.2C2.B.4B
2C$13.5A5.4B5.2A9.C2.B3D2BC.C$13.A10.4B12.3C3.2BDB4.C$15.A9.4B11.C4.
3B3D3.2C$14.2A10.4B15.7B$27.4B14.9B$28.4B14.9B$29.4B13.5B$30.4B11.B6.
2B$31.4B10.B5.2B2C$32.4B9.B5.2B2C$33.4B8.B7.2B$34.4B7.6B$45.7B.B$38.
2B4.11B$37.4B4.8B.2B$38.4B2.9B$39.4B.9B$40.14B$41.8B2A3B$38.B3.7B2A4B
$38.B4.12B$38.2B4.4BD7BA.2A$38.3B4.2B3D4B2.2A.A$38.2B4.2BD2B2D2B$38.
4B2.8B10.A$38.6B2.6B8.3A$38.7B.7B6.A$37.2A15B5.2A$38.A6.16B$38.A.AB2.
17B$29.2A.A6.2AB.19B$29.A.2A8.22B$41.22B$30.5A6.18BD3B$25.2A2.A4.A6.
16BDBD2B2A$25.A2.A.BAB9.16B2D2B2A$26.A.A.2AB9.23B$25.2A.A.4BA7.23B$
28.A3.BABA.2B4.22B$28.2A2.A2BA29B$33.2A30B$34.34B.B$33.34B.B2A$33.36B
2A$34.33B.2B$34.33B$30.2A3.31B$30.A2.B.6B.15B3.4B$31.3A6B5.8B2A2B4.3B
$33.AB.3B6.4B2.2B2AB3.7B$31.2A3.2B13.5B3.2A.B.2A$31.A3.B2AB14.2B5.A3.
A$29.A.A4.2A19.3A5.3A$29.2A26.A9.A!

tommyaweosme's signature wrote:HEY GUYS
FOR A PRANK, DISCOVER A GROUNDBREAKING DISCOVERY IN CONWAYS GAME OF LIFE AND NAME IT "SIX-SEVEN"

hotdogPi wrote: Cursed pattern names: anything containing an emoji, the RTL character, a control character, or invalid UTF-8; "pattern", anyone's username, the empty string, anything containing "drop table", 0P[whatever], anything that violates rule 2, an existing pattern name but with a substituted Greek or Cyrillic letter, "ban me", valid JavaScript, something over 2000 characters, "something", "unknown", "unnamed", "autostart"

glider_rider wrote: November 30th, 2025, 5:33 am (12,4)c/62 spaceship based on a very interesting crawler I found yesterday. I've made essentially no attempts at minimizing this and have been far from exhaustive in my searching for components so it's certainly reducible.

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Hippo.69 wrote: December 2nd, 2025, 10:30 am So finally 2/133076755768 ship of starting bounding box 3707300605x1 is here:
range of y coordinates is about +/-5537521000, maximal x coordinate during the first cycle is about ... 11075626500

Entity Valkyrie wrote: February 26th, 2019, 5:20 pm I'm leaving LifeWiki! Meet me in my paradise.

make sure ENEERG EVAD (backwards) doesn't know this

hth3 wrote: December 6th, 2025, 10:58 am

Entity Valkyrie wrote: February 26th, 2019, 5:20 pm I'm leaving LifeWiki! Meet me in my paradise.

make sure ENEERG EVAD (backwards) doesn't know this

A mod wrote: Mod edit: No posts that could possibly be viewed as negative. No making fun of other users. No quoting users with account ages less than 6 months.

BokaBB wrote: January 6th, 2021, 3:18 pm Ohio
Have a good day!

BokaBB

drc wrote: February 14th, 2016, 1:35 pm 2016 needs to be the year we discover this [unidimensional spaceship]....

Hippo.69 wrote: December 2nd, 2025, 10:30 am So finally 2/1330767555768 ship of starting bounding box 3707300605x1 is here...

glider_rider wrote: December 11th, 2025, 1:42 pm A working, if very large, tail end for the (15,11)c/107 crawler:

Kazyan wrote: October 16th, 2015, 9:52 pm Apologies for serial posting, but this knocked my socks off:

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x = 36, y = 38, rule = LifeHistory
25.3D$24.D2BD$24.3BDB$23.D3BDB$24.3BD2B$23.BDBD2B$24.6B$23.6B$24.6B$
23.6B$24.6B$23.6B$24.6B$23.6B$24.6B$23.6B$24.6B$16.B6.6B$15.3B6.6B$
13.6B4.7B$7.4B2.7B3.8B$7.25B$4.4BD24B$2A2.4BDBD20BD2B$.2A2.3B3DB2A16B
DBD2B$2A2.6BDB2A16BDBD2B$A3.3B2.22BD4B$9.26B$11.B2.20B$14.19B$14.17B$
14.18B$15.5B.11B$15.4B2.12B$22.4B.2BA3B$27.BABA2B$28.2A2B$30.B!

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FWKnightship wrote: December 23rd, 2025, 7:19 am Engineered (28,7)c/448 ((4,1)c/64) spaceship:
28,7c448.mc

b-engine wrote: December 23rd, 2025, 7:28 am This third new spaceship speed jumpscare will certainly receive 50 likes before 2026:

FWKnightship wrote: December 23rd, 2025, 7:19 am Engineered (28,7)c/448 ((4,1)c/64) spaceship:
28,7c448.mc

Pavgran wrote: November 28th, 2021, 8:54 pm

Notability Committee wrote:Hello and welcome to the Worthy Pattern Interview. What's your name?

DOGun SaGaQR.

Notability Committee wrote:Excuse me?

Doh-gun Say-gah-q-r.

Notability Committee wrote:Oh... I'll try to remember. Tell us about yourself. What kind of a pattern are you?

Well, I can be an ancestor of 6 children, all with different abilities.

Notability Committee wrote:Whoa, that sounds nice! And what do you have to do to produce a different child?

Just advance my last glider [select and Ctrl+Space in Golly] one tick at a time, to get six different results.

Notability Committee wrote:Sounds simple enough! Would you mind introducing your children to us?

Sure. The zeroth one (i.e., if you don't adjust the glider) is a diehard.

Notability Committee wrote:Wait, really? That's quite disappointing. We have a ton of those already. What is next?

Advance by one tick and you get a 4-barreled glider gun.

Notability Committee wrote:Are you kidding me? The last time that would have been interesting would have been, I don't know, the early 1990s!

Okay, okay, advance by 2 ticks and you get an orthogonal c/24 [simplified] spaceship.

Notability Committee wrote:Well... That's not that bad. But not all that awesome either -- there are scripts to build things like that. If you don't have something more interesting to show us, please stop wasting our time.

Advance by 3 ticks and you get a p100663296 oscillator.

Notability Committee wrote:An oscillator. Are you serious? We could get that period with just a glider gun and a bunch of semi-Snarks! Duh. ... Next?

Advance by 4 ticks and here comes... a glider!

Notability Committee wrote:A glider? A GLIDER? Hm, at first you seemed serious, but now you're obviously just trolling us. Get out of here!

Wait, wait, you haven't heard about my last child yet! Give me one more chance, please!

Notability Committee wrote:... Fine. Go on.

Advance by 5 ticks and you get a quadratic replicator.
DOGun_SaGaQR_gen_1_000_341_504.png

glider_rider wrote: January 11th, 2026, 12:57 am Ship completed! Minimum population is 1190163:
(15,11)c107 Ship.mc
The last component required were the southwards LWSS and glider pair rakes. Final assembly was done using a combination of these scripts (with lots of tweaking to get all the spacings right) and manual copy-pasting:

b-engine wrote: December 23rd, 2025, 7:28 am This third new spaceship speed jumpscare will certainly receive 50 likes before 2026:

FWKnightship wrote: December 23rd, 2025, 7:19 am Engineered (28,7)c/448 ((4,1)c/64) spaceship:
28,7c448.mc

b-engine wrote: January 24th, 2026, 9:58 pm ...
Stop clearing everything off your posts again.
You can simply leave them here and no one among 56 people would track you.

Someone wrote:How could Relics have time to make something like Polynomix?

Rhombic wrote: February 12th, 2026, 2:24 pm AN ALL-CAPS SPACESHIP (sorry about the pun) in a related rule (40c/324o):

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x = 6, y = 28, rule = B3/S2-i34q|B1e/S02-i34q5-aj
3b2o$3bobo$3bobo$3b2o2$b2o$obo$obo$b2o4$b2o$obo$obo$b2o2$3b2o$3bobo$3b
obo$3b2o5$4o$o2bo$b2o!

unname4798 wrote: February 20th, 2026, 10:18 am It is an user sandbox.

unname4798 wrote: February 20th, 2026, 11:36 am It was intended to be an user sandbox, but tommyaweosme posted, making it a "Not Random Posts" thread.

tommyaweosme wrote: February 7th, 2026, 11:23 am

Neocaridina wrote: February 20th, 2026, 10:50 am

unname4798 wrote: February 20th, 2026, 10:18 am It is an user sandbox.

Edit:

unname4798 wrote: February 20th, 2026, 11:36 am It was intended to be an user sandbox, but tommyaweosme posted, making it a "Not Random Posts" thread.

tommyaweosme wrote: February 7th, 2026, 11:23 am

Got some trolling here!

hotcrystal0 wrote: in a sense, finding your identity is a lot like watching a search program try to complete a partial
you try to work with a frontend and then you try to expand it
when an expansion fails you try expanding it in a different way
and when no different way completes the partial you create a new frontend and see if that will work

ElijahKen wrote: January 9th, 2026, 10:30 am

qqd wrote: January 9th, 2026, 2:00 am Unfortunately, the 'eonified' Fx119 inserter only has 16hd of clearance, compared to the regular version with 27hd of clearance:

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x = 23, y = 23, rule = B3/S23
o$obo$3o$2bo10$2b3o15b3o$3b3o13b3o$9b2o$9b2o2$3b3o13b3o$2b3o15b3o2$9b
2o$9b2o!

Here is a version replacing the rightmost killer toads with a tub, with 6hd more clearance (22 total, I think):

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x = 26, y = 24, rule = B3/S23
o$obo$3o$2bo10$2b3o$3b3o$9b2o$9b2o2$3b3o$2b3o2$9b2o13bo$9b2o12bobo$24b
o!

ElijahKen wrote: February 21st, 2026, 10:39 am

qqd wrote: February 21st, 2026, 8:52 am (... Other issues prevent other Herschel eaters from being used):

A single tub works:

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x = 56, y = 61, rule = LifeHistory
8.2A$8.2A6.2A$16.A$14.A.A$14.2A2$11.2A$10.A2.A$2.2A7.2A$.A.A$.A$2A5$5.
C$5.C.C$5.3C$7.C2$39.2A$39.2A5$44.A$43.A.A4.A$44.A4.A.A$50.A2$23.2A11.
3D3.3D$22.A.A10.D3.D.D3.D8.2A$22.A12.D3.D.D3.D4.2A2.2A$21.2A12.D3.D.D
3.D4.2A$36.3D3.3D2$36.3D3.3D$35.D3.D.D3.D$35.D3.D.D3.D$35.D3.D.D3.D$27.
2A7.3D3.3D2.2A$26.A.A18.A.A$26.A22.A$25.2A22.2A8$46.D$47.D$37.3D5.3D$
37.D$36.3D$43.A$42.A.A$43.A!

Extrementhusiast wrote: November 2nd, 2010, 12:25 am If you expand to four states (California, Idaho, Iowa, and Nebraska (no, no, not THOSE states! (How about Maine, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, and Virginia? (No, no, not those TYPE of states! (Okay, okay, sheesh! (Okay, this big parenthetical allusion is getting off topic, but I digress.))))))

synperiplanar wrote: June 10th, 2026, 10:45 am ...
if you're into CA, you WILL come back to conwaylife.com eventually, whether you want to or not. i came back around a year after i had an "argument" because i found real life so boring without any fake Life to play.