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Thread for Explaining your Avatars
Posted: September 14th, 2014, 1:46 pm
by praosylen
I have seen many avatars around this site that I have no idea what they are. If you wish, feel free to post explanations of your avatars in this thread.
My avatar is a static image of the oscillator "A for all". There is a link to its page in my signature.
P.S. Does anyone know how to shrink an animated image? I would have used the animated image but it was too large.
Re: Thread for Explaining your Avatars
Posted: September 15th, 2014, 11:22 am
by Nathaniel
A for awesome wrote:P.S. Does anyone know how to shrink an animated image? I would have used the animated image but it was too large.
There are some online tools like
this one that you can use. Here is the A for all GIF at half size:
http://i.imgur.com/CgfgsrA.gif
Edit by Sokwe: image added as attachment
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Re: Thread for Explaining your Avatars
Posted: September 16th, 2014, 1:15 pm
by praosylen
Thank you so much!
Re: Thread for Explaining your Avatars
Posted: September 18th, 2014, 1:22 pm
by lukebradford
Mine is an anchor track, one of the more interesting oscillators in Live Free or Die (s0/b2). This one is the smallest iteration and is p12, but they are extensible and can have any period 4 * 2^n - 4.
http://lfod.wikispaces.com/anchor+track
Re: Thread for Explaining your Avatars
Posted: September 25th, 2014, 10:10 am
by Tropylium
My avatar is a still life I have found out to fulfill no less than four minization criteria:
- By diagonal width, smallest still life with 4-fold rotational symmetry (by cell count and bounding box it's tied with spiral)
- Smallest still life composed entirely of pentominoes
- Smallest still life that is a chain of four siamized smaller still lifes
- Smallest still life that completely encloses a 3×3 patch of empty cells (equivalently: an empty cell with no neighbors).
