Talk:Pulsar
I discovered this one today too. ;) Small joy's come, even when you are only retracing the footsteps of giant's. And metaphorically, I am not even walking ... but using a super-computer ... but still it makes you happy.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Spam User (talk • contribs)
I found a pattern like this today. It's a period 3 oscillator, but I haven't been able to find it. Made of four quadrants, oscillates from 48-48-64 cells... I can't figure out how to get a picture to y'all. Could someone help determine which one it is?— Preceding unsigned comment added by Wolfram (talk • contribs)
- See bracket pulsar. GUYTU6J (talk) 14:26, 10 November 2022 (UTC)
Glider synthesis demonstration
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Is there a reason to pick this particular 3G synthesis to demonstrate in viewer? It seems to be the longest (reaction time from first collision to pulsar forming) and largest (reaction envelope) one from Niemiec's collection. If I were to synthesize, say, a pre-pulsar hassler, that recipe would be the least useful one as it cannot be easily inserted to between other objects. GUYTU6J (talk) 14:26, 10 November 2022 (UTC)
- What I do agree with is that this is mostly an arbitrary choice. However, I think examples are not required to be useful. And given that there are many known syntheses (probably too many to show them all on this page), without any obvious way to choose the single best one, it might actually make sense to intentionally choose an useless example for demonstration (IIRC I actually chose this example because it was longer) - just to avoid any arguments on which syntheses are useful enough to be shown. Confocal (talk) 14:41, 10 November 2022 (UTC) (Added later:) FWIW this might be the most useless 3G synthesis of the pulsar. I just checked and I think it is isotropically endemic to Life, while every other 3G synthesis seems to work with S4c as well. Confocal (talk) 19:10, 10 November 2022 (UTC)
Seven-cell predecessor
> The smallest pattern by population that evolves into a pulsar has seven cells; there are several of these.
What are they? --Galoomba (talk) 21:08, 9 April 2023 (UTC)