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There has not been any official contest to determine a pattern of the year for 2014, please post eligible patterns on this thread.

A pattern is eligible if it is:
(1) Created in 2014 (UTC).
(2) Works in B3/S23 (should other rues be included?)
(3) Somehow notable (no 30 cell, 700 generation methuselahs).

Entries so far are:

Waterbear The first fast oblique spaceship.
Centipede
Half-baked knightship An oblique spaceship.
Switch engine ping-pong A 23 cell quadratic growth pattern, the smallest known.
Weekender distaff A 2c/7 rake.
Synthesis for all 17- and 18-bit still lifes
Pufferfish
Dart and Crab synthesis viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1395&hilit=How+about+a+dart#p14680
Spiral Growth

More details about the patterns will be added later.
A voting thread will be started after over 48 hours of no new entries.
EDIT: I will give it a few more days to get started.

The first thing I can think of is (of course) the completion of syntheses for all 17- and 18-bit still lifes.

Pufferfish, dart synthesis.

If anyone has any more nominations, please post them in the next 72 hours, a voting thread will be created afterwards.

Spiral growth
Crab synthesis (I think it and dart synth should be a single entry)

HBK gun was found in 2015 and was an entry in the relevant competition.

Jaydot ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)


What about parallel half baked knightships?

What exactly is "spiral growth"?

Kiran wrote:What exactly is "spiral growth"?

It was another self-constructing pattern, easier than a Demonoid. It was the first B3/S23 construction with a spiral growth pattern -- the growth rate in all four directions getting gradually slower and slower.

I suppose something like that could have been simulated, sort of, with four patterns vaguely along the lines of Hashlife/logarithmic-width.mc pointed in the four cardinal directions -- but that would be a significantly slower growth rate. Anyway, I don't think anyone ever bothered to construct anything like that.

muzik wrote:What about parallel half baked knightships?

I think I'd recommend combining the original half-baked knightship in the same entry as the HBK. That's very similar to how the 10hd and 0hd Demonoids were treated as a single project in the 2015 voting -- because they really were a single project, pretty much. It would be hard to choose between them, and listing them separately would just divide the vote.

Entries are closed!
EDIT:
Because of either DST or time zones, I accidentally posted an hour late.
The task now is to provide descriptions of the entries.

Kiran wrote:Entries are closed!
EDIT:
Because of either DST or time zones, I accidentally posted an hour late.
The task now is to provide descriptions of the entries.

After I posted late, you posted late.

drc wrote:

Kiran wrote:Entries are closed!
EDIT:
Because of either DST or time zones, I accidentally posted an hour late.
The task now is to provide descriptions of the entries.

After I posted late, you posted late.

True, sorry I found fault in you.