Tame

To tame a dirty reaction is to perturb it using other patterns such as gliders and catalysts so as to make it clean and hopefully useful. Alternatively, the reaction may not work at all without the taming due to unwanted debris that interferes with the reaction. An example is the AK47 reaction, which was independently tamed into three separate glider guns.

x = 10, y = 12, rule = B3/S23 5bo$4bobo$3bo3bo$3bo3bo$3bo3bo$4bobo$5bo2$2b2o$3bo$3o5b2o$o7b2o! #C [[ THUMBSIZE 2 THEME 6 GRID GRIDMAJOR 0 SUPPRESS THUMBLAUNCH ]] #C [[ THUMBSIZE 2 ZOOM 12 GPS 12 HEIGHT 480 WIDTH 640 ]]

The AK47 reaction produces a residual traffic light. (click above to open LifeViewer) RLE: here Plaintext: here

#C AK94 gun #C Mike Playle, 9 May 2013 #C http://conwaylife.com/wiki/AK-94 x = 38, y = 25, rule = B3/S23 15bo7b2o$15b3o5b2o$18bo$17b2o16b2o$30b2o2bo2bo$30bobo2b2o$19bo13b2o$5b o12bob2o12bo$5b3o10bo2bo12bob2o$8bo10b3o4bo4b2obo2bo$7b2o15bo2bo3b2ob 2o$25b2o3$2b2ob2o22b2o$o2bob2o22bo$2obo26b3o$3bo28bo$3b2o$b2o2bobo$o2b o2b2o$b2o16b2o$19bo10bo$13b2o5b3o8bo$13b2o7bo6b3o! #C [[ THUMBSIZE 2 THEME 6 GRID GRIDMAJOR 0 SUPPRESS THUMBLAUNCH ]] #C [[ THUMBSIZE 2 ZOOM 12 GPS 12 HEIGHT 480 WIDTH 640 ]]

AK94 is created by dimerising the reaction and adding traffic light eaters. (click above to open LifeViewer) RLE: here Plaintext: here

Taming rules

In addition to reactions, taming is applied to explosive/expansive rules. To tame a rule is to modify the rule's birth and survival conditions so that the resulting rule is less explosive, while keeping certain desirable properties of the original rule, such as the existence of certain patterns or reactions. Rule-taming is usually done using isotropic non-totalistic rules.

External links

• Tame at the Life Lexicon
• Request a Rule to be "Tamed" (discussion thread) at the ConwayLife.com forums