OCA Discovery of the Year 2025 Voting

[NNlk05]

Is the voting going to start soon?
Nobody has made any nominations for a while, so if you want your pattern to be the OCA discovery of the year, you should do it now!

Here you go. It's almost September now, so I may as well start it.

Entries

#1 HexaSmodel (islptng)
First infinite nested SMOSMOS...MOS on a hexagonal grid in 32 states

#2 T-and-Tub (B2cik3-cijn4cknqr5-anqy6ekn7/S1c2acn3-aijq4cjktw5ejny6aen7c8)
(islptng, H. H. P. M. P. Cole, hibiscus, Disaster16439, I6_I6, R2INT, and others.)
First OCA recreation of APGsembly and a lot of other things engineered (i.e., a gemoid)

#3 B2-ak3ce4eikqrz5-iknq6-ek8/S1c2aek3aekn4eiknry5eiky6-ei7c8
(Yujh, NimbleRogue, vilc, WhiteHawk, unix with clock, R2INT, FWKnightship, b-engine, et al.)
A rule with more than 1100 NRSS (nonadjustable reduced speed of ship).

#4 viewtopic.php?f=11&t=3071&start=250#p210748 (AforAmpere)
The first SMOSMOSMOS in INT.

#5 viewtopic.php?f=11&t=3071&start=300#p218720 (yaochen2)
INT SMOS made of three separate 2-ship interactions.

#6 viewtopic.php?f=11&t=6649&p=216034#p216034 (NimbleRogue)
First nonadjustable ship in INT over a period of 10 billion.

#7 viewtopic.php?f=11&t=6458&start=75#p217084 (FWKnightship)
The INT rule with the second most-known NRSS and the most NRSS slopes.

#8 viewtopic.php?f=11&t=6458&start=75#p217 ... 41#p217741 (Kathina)
Unstable version of B23/S2V that can move its bounding box

#10 viewtopic.php?f=11&t=1074&p=214513#p214513 (Naszvadi)
Corderization of small 20c/44 engine in B3468/S0357

#11 viewtopic.php?f=11&t=1798&p=219626#p219626 (confocaloid)
Glider extraction from (B3/S023) DotLife flotillae.

#12 viewtopic.php?t=3670 (Various)
Several new hexagonal spaceships, with an oblique one in the outer totalistic hexagonal rule B256/S256H.

#13 viewtopic.php?f=11&t=2597&p=223249#p223249 (Lazy Boi, Naszvadi)
Turing Completeness proof of B34/S0134V and related rules.

#14 Another SMOSMOSMOS (splitterrules)
A set of 54 SMOSMOSMOSes.

#15 Checkerboard, Day and Night (R2INT)
A rule that is not only self-complementary under black/white inversion, but also under XORing with a checkerboard.

#16 Traveling T's (Various, incl. ThePlayzr, Resu, mmmmmmmmm, hotcrystal0, hibiscus, PK22, H. H. P. M. P. Cole, LuveelVoom, pifricted, AbhpzTa, rabbit, R2INT, yujh, EvinZL, FWKnightship, shuich01, PkmnQ, I6_I6, NNlk05, yyh_baboon and others the list missed.)
a Turing-Complete margolus supporting 2TFL rule with known p3, p5, p7, p8, and p11 reflectors. The most recent version of the full stamp collection can be found at User:PK22/OCA:Travelling Ts/Full Stamp Collection. This does not include the 3c/8 distaff, which can be found here.

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Voting closes on 2026-11-07 23:59:59 UTC-12:00 (Which is 4am for me so you may still have a few hours.)
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[NimbleRogue]

Is the voting going to start soon?
Nobody has made any nominations for a while, so if you want your pattern to be the OCA discovery of the year, you should do it now!

Here you go. It's almost September now, so I may as well start it.

2 of the nominations from the nomination thread are not included in the voting thread:
"Checkerboard, Day and Night" - R2INT and "The INT rule with the second most known NRSS and the most NRSS slopes" - FWKnightship
I would suggest that we close the voting thread and give everyone at least 1 more week for nominating (I know that there has not been any recent nominations but it is good to give people time to look over and check the nominations and to talk about what to include/how to format them)

[NNlk05]

2 of the nominations from the nomination thread are not included in the voting thread:
"Checkerboard, Day and Night" - R2INT and "The INT rule with the second most known NRSS and the most NRSS slopes" - FWKnightship
I would suggest that we close the voting thread and give everyone at least 1 more week for nominating (I know that there has not been any recent nominations but it is good to give people time to look over and check the nominations and to talk about what to include/how to format them)

Thanks -- fixed.
I'll also allow 1 week for nominations. The deadline is moved to 2026-11-07 23:59:59 UTC-12:00.

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