ConwayLife.com

RULES:
-Must be in life
-Voting once every 10 entries
-Has to be found/made by YOU
-Elementary only please
Entries must specify:
(Speed
(Program used
(Min Pop.
(RLE
(Optional: why it's special)

Here's mine:
2c/5, found with WLS, min population 151. It was my first 2c/5

Would me submitting the Waterbear be against the spirit of the contest?

biggiemac wrote:Would me submitting the Waterbear be against the spirit of the contest?

But you didnt make it ALL by yourself, right?

Depends what you take as given. The program to generate helices was a collaborative effort between codeholic, oblique, and others, but once the program existed it was simple to use, much like WLS. If the base reaction, helix, and *WSS edge shooters are given as public knowledge, then the aspects of design and construction specific to completing the Waterbear were almost exclusively me.

However, I of course don't claim to be the sole reason the ship exists, nor that I could have pulled it out of a hat without contributions from the community. But that would be a dodgy claim for you to make of that 2c/5 as well, since more reasonably WLS found it under your direction, and WLS was the product of work by others years ago.

I made the earlier suggestion more as a protest than a serious entry, since most of the effort I and many others put into CGoL is intended to advance What-Has-Been-Discovered rather than What-I-Personally-Can-Take-Credit-For. The forums have had some members in the past that were rather obsessed with laying claim to discoveries, and it tends to cause problems and hurt feelings. I mean no offense, and am kind of sorry to have put this paragraph in the middle of a lighthearted contest, but I hope its message makes sense.

Updated rules. Construction does not mean construction construction