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Welcome to the forums!Valera_217 wrote: November 5th, 2025, 5:43 am
The Valera Cross is a fourfold symmetric pattern that evolves into four stable beacons and emits eight gliders in perfect symmetry.
Discovered by Karpinchik Valera (known as @.val386) in November 2025 on playgameoflife.com.
It represents a rare type of self-destroying glider emitter, combining oscillatory and explosive behavior.
Final stage: 4 beacons and 8 gliders emitted symmetrically.
playgameoflife.com is discouraged here due to lack of many basic functionalities.Forum rule 5 wrote:If you decide to share your discovery with the forums, please do not post an image of the pattern. Instead, post the RLE code of the pattern within "pattern" tags. The easiest way to obtain the RLE code of a pattern is to select the pattern in Golly and then copy it to your clipboard.
A methuselah is indeed aesthetically pleasing but isn't worthy of post, unfortunately. It's a lot easier to make discoveries in OCA (other cellular automata), especially chaotic (but not explosive or stable) isotropic non-totalistic rules with B2ce or B3ai. Even then, try to find spaceships, oscillators, catalysts, guns or rakes instead of methuselahs.Forum rule 4 wrote:Some specific examples of discoveries that won't be of interest to this community include:
a. A new still life.
b. A methuselah that lasts fewer than 20,000 generations or is larger than a 20-by-20 box.
c. An alternate stabilization for a reaction (unless it is smaller than the smallest currently known).
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x = 23, y = 23, rule = B3/S23
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