Jason Summers' pattern collection
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-oversize is a supplement that contains patterns that are very large or very slow to develop.
osc-supplement is a supplement that contains a collection of oscillators found before 2015 that are not included in jslife, maintained by Matthias Merzenich.
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
There are also two useful readme files.
External links
- Jason Summers' pattern collection includes links to jslife and jslife-oversize collections
- jslife-moving
- osc-supplement