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* applications: patterns whose population over time is unusual, "high-level" patterns, and patterns designed to calculate or emulate something. | * applications: patterns whose population over time is unusual, "high-level" patterns, and patterns designed to calculate or emulate something. | ||
* c2-extended: c/2 spaceships, puffers, and rakes, by period | * c2-extended: c/2 spaceships, puffers, and rakes, by [[period]] | ||
* | * [[fuse]]s: some ways that linearly-repeating patterns can decay | ||
* | * [[gun]]s: spaceship guns, excluding "ordinary" glider guns, i.e. guns with an adjustable period, an unusual shape, or that fire multiple spaceships or unusual kinds of spaceships | ||
* interactions: moving | * interactions: moving [[reaction]]s that are supported by one or more guns or puffers, which move at a different velocity than the reaction itself | ||
* misc: reactions that are interesting or useful and do not fit elsewhere | * misc: reactions that are interesting or useful and do not fit elsewhere | ||
* osc: | * osc: [[oscillator]]s, by period | ||
* osc-supported: oscillating patterns requiring support with glider guns or a | * osc-supported: oscillating patterns requiring support with glider guns or a similar mechanism | ||
* slideguns: guns that fire each glider on a separate path | * slideguns: guns that fire each glider on a separate path ([[slide gun]]s and [[tethered rake]]s) | ||
* synthesis: patterns of gliders that collide to form objects | * [[synthesis]]: patterns of gliders that collide to form objects | ||
* velocity-xxx: spaceships, puffers, stretchers, etc., of velocity xxx=(2c/5, c/2, c/3, c/4 diagonal, c/4 orthogonal, c/5 orthogonal, c/12 diagonal, other) | * velocity-xxx: spaceships, puffers, stretchers, etc., of velocity xxx=(2c/5, c/2, c/3, c/4 diagonal, c/4 orthogonal, c/5 orthogonal, c/12 diagonal, other) | ||
* wicks: extensible oscillators | * wicks: [[extensible]] oscillators | ||
==External links== | ==External links== | ||
Revision as of 00:40, 31 December 2022
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jslife is the major part of Jason Summers' pattern collection and is frequently referenced as the source of a Life pattern discovered prior to 2013.
jslife-moving, maintained by Matthias Merzenich, includes the moving objects of Summers' jslife collection and incorporates older c/3 and 2c/5 collections by David Bell and Paul Tooke without modification. The collection focuses on elementary-based technology and includes elementary spaceships, puffers and rakes, wickstretchers and wavestretchers, as well as a few incomplete spaceship components, and is currently the primary reference source for such objects. It excludes large engineered spaceships and puffers (e.g. Caterpillar, Gemini), growing spaceships, and non-linear growth patterns like breeders.
Contents of jslife
The collection is organized by folder as follows:
- applications: patterns whose population over time is unusual, "high-level" patterns, and patterns designed to calculate or emulate something.
- c2-extended: c/2 spaceships, puffers, and rakes, by period
- fuses: some ways that linearly-repeating patterns can decay
- guns: spaceship guns, excluding "ordinary" glider guns, i.e. guns with an adjustable period, an unusual shape, or that fire multiple spaceships or unusual kinds of spaceships
- interactions: moving reactions that are supported by one or more guns or puffers, which move at a different velocity than the reaction itself
- misc: reactions that are interesting or useful and do not fit elsewhere
- osc: oscillators, by period
- osc-supported: oscillating patterns requiring support with glider guns or a similar mechanism
- slideguns: guns that fire each glider on a separate path (slide guns and tethered rakes)
- synthesis: patterns of gliders that collide to form objects
- velocity-xxx: spaceships, puffers, stretchers, etc., of velocity xxx=(2c/5, c/2, c/3, c/4 diagonal, c/4 orthogonal, c/5 orthogonal, c/12 diagonal, other)
- wicks: extensible oscillators