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Due to some of the entries having as many as twenty-one links, only the first link is provided for each entry. The full list of links can be seen at the first post of the nominations thread.

• #01 Beehive push catalyst: a catalyst that allows the beehive push reaction, where a beehive affects an active region while being displaced by one cell orthogonally, to be used repeatedly in situations where there is not another synchronized mechanism to push it back, such as in conduits (by Kazyan (Tanner Jacobi))
• #02 Natural loafers: Catagolue soups in the C1 and G1 symmetries that produce the twenty-cell loafer, making it the first spaceship not at the maximum speed for its direction to be found in a random asymmetric soup in B3S23 (by John Goodman (John Goodman), rliston (Rob Liston), and calcyman (Adam P. Goucher))
• #03 34-bit still life enumeration: an enumeration of all 34-bit still lifes and pseudo still lifes, which confirmed that the quad pseudo still life is the unique 34-bit pseudo still life requiring a decomposition into 4 or more pieces (by Nathaniel (Nathaniel Johnston))
• #04 c/61 near-spaceship and slide gun support: a reaction consisting of a pulsar interacting with two blocks that results in the same confirmation 61 generations later shifted by one cell orthogonally if supplied with two dot sparks or certain fishhook-type interactions, which can be provided with gliders from slide guns (by Kazyan (Tanner Jacobi) and Goldtiger997)
• #05 Period-9 heavyweight sparker and associated R shuttle: period-nine domino sparker that has two dot sparks displaced (2.5, 1) from the center of the domino spark, making it a heavyweight emulator, and has better clearance than the previous known period-nine domino sparker, allowing it and an eater 2 to form a periodic RFx9R conduit that can be attached to another copy of itself to form a shuttle (wwei23, A for awesome (Aidan F. Pierce), and hotdogPi)
• #06 p5 drifter-like catalyst/lightweight volcano/periodic catalyst: an oscillator that periodically creates then kills via overpopulation a "block face", allowing it to be used to perturb regions in the same manner as several catalysts without permanently harming the oscillator (by wwei23 and Scorbie (Dongook Lee))
• #07 New c/5 diagonal spaceships: several new c/5 diagonal spaceships of varying shapes (by AforAmpere, Sarp, A for awesome (Aidan F. Pierce), winston (John Winston Garth), and Dylan Chen (Dylan Chen))
• #08 New growing spaceships: patterns in which spaceships create a wick that is consumed at a slower speed than it is created at (by Sokwe (Matthias Merzenich) and A for awesome (Aidan F. Pierce))
• #09 New longest-lasting 16x16 methuselah: an asymmetric 16x16 soup found with Catagolue that takes longer to stabilize than any previous assymetric 16x16 soup not forming Corderbackrakes and a related 16x16 pattern that takes one generation longer to form generation five of said random soup(by rliston (Rob Liston) and Goldtiger997)
• #10 New c/10 orthogonal technology: arrangements of copperheads and fireships that perform various tasks, such as firing a stream of loafers backwards (by Mr. T (Christoph Reinthaler))
• #11 Better universal regulator: a device that can align a set of input glider signals with no period constraints to any output period greater than 73 that is smaller and faster than any previous universal regulator (by Jormungant (Louis-François Handfield))
• #12 19-bit still life syntheses: glider syntheses for all 19-bit still lifes (by Freywa (Jeremy Tan), dvgrn (Dave Greene), Hdjensofjfnen, Ian07, Kazyan (Tanner Jacobi), testitemqlstudop, chris_c (Chris Cain), BlinkerSpawn, Extrementhusiast (Martin Grant), Goldtiger997, wildmyron (Arie Paap), Macbi (Oscar Cunningham), Sokwe (Matthias Merzenich), GUYTU6J, and AGreason (Alex Greason))
• #13 c/5 and c/6 guns: the first known guns for c/5 orthogonal, c/5 diagonal, and c/6 orthogonal spaceships (by Entity Valkyrie, Goldtiger997, Extrementhusiast (Martin Grant), Kazyan (Tanner Jacobi), Freywa (Jeremy Tan), and wwei23)
• #14 Cheaper fixed-cost universal construction: reductions in the cost of reverse caber-tosser-based universal construction by figuring out how to split a target block with gliders instead of needing to use a block-laying switch engine, removing the need for a Sakapuffer, and reducing the number of glider-producing switch enginges required in the circuitry (by chris_c (Chris Cain), calcyman (Adam P. Goucher), and MathAndCode)
• #15 Width-12 c/6 orthogonal spaceship: the first width-12 c/6 orthogonal spaceship, which has the minimum possible width for a period-6 spaceship of this speed (by mscibing (Andrew J. Wade))
• #16 New small Corderships: several new three-engine and four-engine Corderships found using a custom apgsearch symmetry (by wwei23 and Ian07)
• #17 Period-10 glider shuttle: the lowest known period for a glider shuttle (by Extrementhusiast (Martin Grant))
• #18 New agar crawler/agar bubble/skimmer/agar clearer technology: mechanisms to add, remove, travel along, or travel within agar (by wildmyron (Arie Paap), BlinkerSpawn, dani, amling (Keith Amling), Saka, HartmutHolzwart (Hartmut Holzwart), and wwei23)
• #19 Speed Demonoid: a self-constructing diagonal spaceship with speed limit c/4 due to using a crab wickstretcher (by Pavgran (Pavel Grankovskiy), dvgrn (Dave Greene), Tanner Jacobi (Kazyan), and Goldtiger997)
• #20 Extensible LoM hasslers: extensible oscillators based on lumps of muck (by JP21, wwei23, and Sokwe (Matthias Merzenich))
• #21 New c/6 diagonal pushalong: the first new piece of low-period c/6 diagonal technology in 9 years (by A for awesome (Aidan F. Pierce))
• #22 New 2c/7 technology: two new 2c/7 spaceships used to help make puffers and rakes (by winston (John Winston Garth) and mscibing (Andrew J. Wade))
• #23 4×N block agar construction: a way to extend the pseudo still life consisting of a 4×3 rectangle of blocks to a 4×N rectangle for arbitrarily high N using gliders (by Goldtiger997)
• #24 Rob's p16: a useful sparker found when it occurred in the ash of an assymetric Catagolue soup (by rliston (Rob Liston))
• #25 Loafer bitmap printer: a collection of loafer guns that can be toggled by a glider memory tape to produce a message in loafer-pixels (by otismo)
• #26 Cordercolumn and extruder: two ways to stabilize a switch engine with another switch engine behind it and an extruder that emits a line of switch engines using one of the methods (by wwei23, AbhpzTa (Luka Okanishi), and Ian07)
• #27 Stable L122: a stable version of the L122 conduit, which previously only had periodic versions (by A for awesome (Aidan F. Pierce))
• #28 Stable barge-crosser: a way to transmit a glider signal across an infinitely long barge without permanently damaging it (by Goldtiger997)
• #29 Small c/5 diagonal puffer: an elegant period-1540 c/5 diagonal puffer that uses only three copies of 58P5H1V1 (by Naszvadi (Peter Naszvadi))
• #30 New grayship technology: a large collection of new greyship components of varying speeds (by amling (Keith Amling), HartmutHolzwart (Hartmut Holzwart), and Sokwe (Matthias Merzenich))
• #31 Glider syntheses from Glider_stdin: glider synthesies based on a result from a custon Catagolue symmetry where gliders are fired at each other in a random configuration (by testitemqlstudop, Kazyan (Tanner Jacobi), wildmyron (Arie Paap), GUYTU6J, and goldenratio)
• #32 New XWSS signal technology: improved mechanisms for detecting XWSS signals (by dvgrn (Dave Greene), calcyman (Adam P. Goucher), and Goldtiger997)
• #33 Silverfish: a new smallest spaceship to use the 31c/240 Herschel climber (by chris_c (Chris Cain), dvgrn (Dave Greene), calcyman (Adam P. Goucher), Nathaniel (Nathaniel Johnston))
• #34 "Bandersnatch" color-changing glider-to-glider conduit: a color-changing glider-to-glider conduit, which can be used to solve glider color mismatches (by Extrementhusiast (Martin Grant) and Entity Valkyrie 2)
• #35 New exotic spaceship eaters and spaceship-to-G converters: new mechanisms to eat spaceships or turn them into glider signals (by Freywa (Jeremy Tan), JP21, AbhpzTa (Luka Okanishi), dvgrn (Dave Greene), calcyman (Adam P. Goucher), Goldtiger997, Kazyan (Tanner Jacobi), EvinZL, bubblegum, A for awesome (Aidan F. Pierce), Jormungant (Louis-François Handfield), chris_c (Chris Cain), Layz Boi, Blinkerspawn, FWKnightship, Gustone, and gameoflifemaniac)
• #36 Record-setting diehards: patterns found from soup searches searches that take longer to settle without leaving any ash than any previously known patterns fitting in a bounding box of the same size (by rliston (Rob Liston), goldenratio, and Moth Wingthane)
• #37 Smaller 3c/7 spaceships: the second and third known 3c/7 spaceships, both of which are smaller than the first known 3c/7 spaceship (by Dylan Chen (Dylan Chen))
• #38 Period-28 glider gun: the first true period-28 gun (by Sokwe (Matthias Merzenich) and pcallahan (Paul Callahan))
• #39 Glider syntheses for 56P6H1V0, 58P5H1V1, turtle, 31P8H4V0, 44P5H2V0, 70P2H1V0.1, 55P9H3V0, and 44P5H2V0: ways to make various spaceships from gliders (by Tanner Jacobi (Kazyan), Extrementhusiast (Martin Grant), Goldtiger997, AforAmpere, Blinkerspawn, calcyman (Adam P. Goucher), and mniemiec (Mark D. Niemiec))

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In case some of you are concerned about mixing up the numbers, here is a version optimized for voting. Simply replace the name of each pattern with the number of asterisks that you want to give it (and remove lines corresponding to patterns that you don't want to vote for).

#01 Beehive push catalyst
#02 Natural loafers
#03 34-bit still life enumeration
#04 c/61 near-spaceship
#05 p9 heavyweight emulator
#06 p5 lightweight emulator/catalyst
#07 New c/5 diagonal spaceships
#08 New growing spaceships
#09 New longest 16x16 methuselah
#10 New c/10 orthgonal technology
#11 Better universal regulator
#12 19-bit still life syntheses
#13 c/5 and c/6 guns
#14 Cheaper universal construction
#15 Width-12 c/6 orthogonal spaceship
#16 New small Corderships
#17 p10 glider shuttle
#18 New agar technology
#19 Speed Demonoid
#20 LoM hasslers
#21 New c/6 diagonal pushalong
#22 New 2c/7 technology
#23 4×N block agar construction
#24 Rob's p16
#25 Loafer bitmap printer
#26 Cordercolumn
#27 Stable L122
#28 Stable barge-crosser
#29 Small c/5 diagonal puffer
#30 New grayship technology
#31 Glider syntheses from Glider_stdin
#32 New XWSS signal technology
#33 Silverfish
#34 Bandersnatch
#35 Spaceship eaters and spaceship-to-G converters
#36 Record-setting diehards
#37 Smaller 3c/7 spaceships
#38 p28 gun
#39 Spaceship glider syntheses

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I'll give each pattern three stars.

wwei47 wrote: February 22nd, 2021, 5:33 pm I'll give each pattern three stars.

Note for future voters: do not vote like this:

muzik wrote: January 12th, 2019, 6:53 pmThree stars for 9 (obviously), 1, 13, 16, 22 and 34, two for 8, 11, 17, 19, 23, 27, 31, and 1 for the rest.

A script's doing the counting here.

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wwei47 wrote: February 22nd, 2021, 5:33 pm I'll give each pattern three stars.

Doesn't that remove the point of voting?

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MathAndCode wrote: February 22nd, 2021, 7:34 pm

wwei47 wrote: February 22nd, 2021, 5:33 pm I'll give each pattern three stars.

Doesn't that remove the point of voting?

I guess so, but it takes a lot of effort to produce those patterns, and for that, I give them 3 stars.

wwei47 wrote: February 22nd, 2021, 7:53 pm I guess so, but it takes a lot of effort to produce those patterns, and for that, I give them 3 stars.

It also took a lot of effort to create the pair of headphones that is currently producing a large amount of tritonic white noise because the designers screwed up and forgot to include a turn-off button.

Silly analogy, granted, but that isn't really a reason to vote at all. It's more about what your opinion on the finished product is, never mind how hard it was to come to.

wwei47 wrote: February 22nd, 2021, 7:53 pmI guess so, but it takes a lot of effort to produce those patterns, and for that, I give them 3 stars.

Yes, but based on the fact that people bother having this vote, I doubt that everyone is supposed to vote like that.

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