Today I have been exploring B0 rules with von Neumann neighbourhood. I thought that something interesting could show up, and indeed I was rewarded by... a spaceship!
I once wrote a custom Java application (which I have long since forgotten) to explore such Von Neumann CAs. I found that this was not one of the more interesting rules. Now that I have come back here, here are four little oscillators.
Freywa wrote:I once wrote a custom Java application (which I have long since forgotten) to explore such Von Neumann CAs. I found that this was not one of the more interesting rules.
Could you publish those "more interesting" rules? I have actually looked at all von Neumann CA that could theoretically support spaceships. This was the only rule with a natural spaceship I have found. Have I overlooked something?
Well, sorry, that program was written as a computer science module assignment (in Java). And I didn't note down the interesting rules, the teachers were just interested in the coding. And I deleted the application after the module was over.