User:Carson Cheng/POTY 2023 Nominee Table

Number	Name (with link)	Authors	Description
01	Walrus	Adam P. Goucher	The first known elementary spaceship with a speed of c/8 diagonal
02	p24 gliderless LWSS gun	Matthias Merzenich, iNoMed, and Lucy D'Agostino	This represents the lowest known period for a gliderless LWSS gun.
03	(2,1)c/6 knightship tagalong	Darren Li	A surprisingly small tagalong given how long ago Sir Robin was discovered
04	Charity's p25	Charity Engine	The first known strictly volatile period-25 oscillator
05	Crotchet ship pseudo-Heisenburp	David Bell	A nice contraption to detect the presence of certain types of c/3 spaceships
06	p13 domino sparker	Mitchell Riley	The first p13 domino sparker with enough clearance to be useful
07	8-lane stable glider shifter	Mitchell Riley	A useful conduit that shifts a glider onto another lane without affecting its colour
08	Spacefiller synthesis	Goldtiger997	The first ever synthesis of a spacefiller
09	New oscillator discoveries	David Raucci, Mitchell Riley, Luke Kiernan, iNoMed, Nora Brown, Carson Cheng, Matthias Merzenich, et al.	A continuing project to find new oscillators. In 2023, new oscillators were found for every period up to 94.
10	New small guns	Mitchell Riley, Carson Cheng, iNoMed, Nora Brown, Matthias Merzenich	Record-breaking guns for many periods were found this year including 42, 49, 52, 59, 61, 68, 70, 72, 84, 126, and 201.
11	Period-2^18 WireWorld metacell	blah	This pattern emulates a cell in the WireWorld rule
12	New wickstretchers	Keith Amling, Frank Everdij, Matthias Merzenich, Hartmut Holzwart	More new types of wickstretchers were found in 2023 than in all past years combined, including three new speeds. This includes stretchers for new combinations of speed and wick, as well as improvements to existing types of stretchers.
13	(34,7)c/156 Caterpillar	AbhpzTa	An engineered spaceship based on the (34,7)c/156 Herschel climber reaction
14	Cribbage	Mitchell Riley	The first period-19 oscillator to be discovered. It was the penultimate period in the proof that B3/S23 is omniperiodic.
15	p41 dependent reflector loop	Nora Brown	The first known period-41 oscillator. Its discovery, along with the period-19 Cribbage one week earlier, completed the proof that Life is omniperiodic.
16	Smaller solution to the Unique father problem	400spartans	A 278-cell still life that satisfies the Unique father problem, first posed in 1972
17	Period-41 glider guns	iNoMed, Matthias Merzenich, May13, David Raucci, and Nora Brown	The first guns of period 41, they were found one day after the discovery of the first period-41 oscillator
18	New stable pulse dividers	Evin, Disaster16439, Louis-François Handfield, Entity Valkyrie, confocaloid	conduits that divide a glider stream by 5, 6, 11, 12, 6n+4, 6n+25 or 6n+26, and 6n+34 or 6n+35
19	New SKOPs	Mitchell Riley, Nora Brown, Carson Cheng, iNoMed, et al.	Many new record-breaking oscillators were discovered in 2023, such as Mold on fire-spitting, 42P38, 49P384, p76 pi-heptomino shuttle, 44P49, p68 century hassler, and more
20	Glider-to-chaos converter	Mitchell Riley	A stable "glider-to-chaos" mechanism that led to discoveries of several reflectors and glider-accepting conduits, including , G → B, G → H, G → P, G → R, G → Q, and G → U
21	Ultra long-lived Engineered diehards	Pavel Grankovsky, Adam P. Goucher, Tim Coe, toroidalet, Evin, et al.	This year an explosion of diehard discoveries were made, culminating in a pattern that lives for 17^^^3 generations before dying out
22	1413-tick natural diehard	Charity Engine	The longest-lived natural 16 × 16 diehard
23	HBK caterpillar	FWKnightship	Built on the half-bakery reaction, it's the fastest spaceship of its type, achieving a speed of (6,3)c/1024
24	Snark64	Carson Cheng	A 90° glider reflector that can be used to solve synchronization and glider color problems, as well as being a glider-emitting catalyst
25	G-to-LWSS (2023)	Luke Kiernan, Mitchell Riley	This is the smallest known stable glider to lightweight spaceship converter
26	Stable Storage Spaceship	Goldtiger997	This is the first known spaceship that purely consists of a glider hitting a stable constellation in at least one of its phases
27	Still life synthesis reductions	Alex Greason, Carson Cheng, Goldtiger997, May13, GUYTU6J, et al.	Optimizations to still life syntheses have led to the completion of the 11-in-5, 15-in-10, and 17-in-15 projects
28	Odd traffic stop	Nora Brown	A p2 phase-shifting catalyst that enabled the discovery of multiple odd-period oscillators
29	Cleaner Boojum reflector catalyst	Luke Kiernan	By adding a catalyst to clean up the unwanted beehive in the boojum reflector, a series of useful G-to-X’s, including 180° glider reflectors with different timings, are discovered
30	c/3 against-the-grain greyships	Keith Amling, Hartmut Holzwart, and Jason Summers	The first c/3 greyship that travels perpendicular to the direction of the stripes
31	Baitless G-to-pi converter	Mitchell Riley	A rare glider catalyst without bait objects, it converts a glider directly into a pi-heptomino, and can be used as a small beehive stopper and in a period-36 glider/pi hassler
32	Galumpher	affamatodidio	A Spartan 180-degree 0hd reflector that is easier to construct than its alternative, the Jubjub reflector
33	New c/4 diagonal technology	Keith Amling, David Bell, Dmitry Maitak, praosylen, Evin, and Matthias Merzenich	A significant expansion of medium-period c/4 diagonal technology, including new spaceships, puffers, and rakes of various periods. Of particular note is a period-8 backrake, the first rake to be found by a direct computer search.
34	Small spacefillers	Rocknlol	Several new record-breaking Max predecessors