User:Sokwe/POTY 2024 Nominee Table

This table is intended to contain nominees for the 2024 Pattern of the Year competition as they will appear in the final nominee list. Feel free to edit this page.

Number	Name (with link)	Authors	Description
01	Triple pseudo still life synthesis	Dmitry Maitak	The first known synthesis of the smallest triple pseudo still life.
02	New gun periods	Period1GliderGun, Matthias Merzenich, Entity Valkyrie, iNoMed, hotcrystal0, et al.	Five new gun periods were discovered in 2024 (15, 16, 35, 47, and 53), tying the record for a single calendar year since 1996.
03	New stable G-to-X	Anivec, Mitchell Riley	A stable glider-to-chaos converter that can be used to build a variety of reflectors, splitters, and converters.
04	77P6H1V1 synthesis and gun	Goldtiger997, Entity Valkyrie	The first known synthesis (by Goldtiger997) and gun (by Entity Valkyrie) for a c/6 diagonal spaceship.
05	Goban	Period1GliderGun	The second known period-19 oscillator.
06	Independent p16 and p26 reflectors	James Pascua, Period1GliderGun	The first independent glider reflectors of periods 16 and 26. Before these discoveries, only dependent reflectors were known at these periods.
07	Faster 2c/3 signal injectors and receivers	Entity Valkyrie, James Pascua, Adam P. Goucher, Simon Ekström, Tanner Jacobi, Evin, vilc, Caleb R. Hilton	Fast and compact 2c/3 signal injectors by various users that work at repeat times as low as 61-ticks, along with a 708-tick signal receiver by Entity Valkyrie using a bait constellation suggested by Simon Ekström. These set the records for fastest 2c/3 signal injectors and receivers.
08	New c/4 diagonal technology	Keith Amling, David Bell, Matthias Merzenich, et al.	A significant expansion of c/4 diagonal technology, including new puffer engines and rakes, small object cleaners, and complex constructions.
09	22-bit still life synthesis project	Dmitry Maitak, vilc, Goldtiger997, confocaloid, Carson Cheng, et al.	Explicit glider syntheses for every 22-bit strict still life.
10	Motor grader	Caleb R. Hilton and Park Shinhwan	A c/7 orthogonal spaceship with a strong front spark capable of clearing debris and supporting pushalongs.
11	p10 drifter-based pipsquirter	iNoMed, Adam P. Goucher, Dongook Lee, and Matthias Merzenich	A new p10 sparker formed from previously known components and a new fast signal-to-spark converter found by Adam P. Goucher.
12	Compact loafer bitmap printer	Entity Valkyrie, Otismo, and Tawal	A highly optimized bitmap printer using a nearly edge-shooting loafer construction to achieve a very compact loafer spacing.
13	Smaller 2-engine Cordership seeds	Dave Greene, vilc, and Hippo.69	A reduction in the number of small objects needed in a 1-glider seed for 2-engine Cordership from 15 to 11 or 12, depending on the orientation.
14	New wickstretchers and greystretchers	Keith Amling	Two different c/2 coiled snake stretchers, and c/2 greystretchers bounded by coiled snakes and tables.
15	Small 135-degree LWSS-to-glider converter	whatislife	A small 135-degree G-to-LWSS converter with a repeat time of 40 ticks, which can be overclocked at 38 ticks.
16	one-glider digital clock seed	Hippo.69	A one-glider seed for a digital clock.
17	Compact pseudo p16 LWSS gun	Entity Valkyrie and vilc	A record-setting compact pseudo-period p16 LWSS gun constructed by Entity Valkyrie, based on a LWSS insertion mechanism by vilc.
18	Fast synthesizable spaceship guns	Entity Valkyrie, Louis-François Handfield, Evin, iNoMed, Goldtiger997, Tanner Jacobi, and DroneBetter	Record low period guns for loafer, crab, and B29 constructed by Entity Valkyrie using improved glider syntheses by various users.
19	New c/3 orthogonal technology	Keith Amling, Dmitry Maitak, Evin, David Bell, and Matthias Merzenich	Several new rake and puffer periods (including the lowest possible, p9), as well as some perfect-clearance blinker and block eaters.
20	New 2c/7 tagalongs	Caleb R. Hilton, Matthias Merzenich, and Dmitry Maitak	Several new 2c/7 tagalongs that can be combined with known components in various ways.
21	rectangular c/2 against-the-grain greyship	Keith Amling	A fully rectangular against-the-grain greyship. Such a ship is very difficult to construct, as it requires several period-8 components.
22	adjustable period (2,1)c/6 rake	vilc	A series of (2,1)c/6 rakes with periods 48+24n.
23	RCT15 optimization project	Hippo.69	A reverse caber tosser-based spacefiller synthesis that reduces the tape length by roughly a factor of three from the first working RCT15 pattern (which synthesized Alan Hensel's decimal counter).
24	fast stable F171	Evin and Simon Ekström	A long-desired variant of Brice Due's F171 conduit that uses a new catalyst to suppress an unwanted blinker, reducing the repeat time from 227 ticks to 120 ticks and allowing it to be followed by dependent conduits.
25	extensible "clock" syntheses	vilc	Syntheses of a series of muttering moats, of which clock and cha-cha are the smallest examples.
26	New spartan technology	Mitchell Riley, Adam P. Goucher, Lucy D'Agostino, Anivec, Evin, and Dave Greene	Various new spartan converters and conduits found largely using the new programs LightCone and Silk. Highlights include a compact Herschel splitter and a fast G-to-W-to-H.
27	Much smaller (34,7)c/156 spaceship	FWKnightship	A new (34,7)c/156 Herschel-climber-based spaceship design by FWKnightship that is 6000 times smaller by bounding box and 38 times smaller by population than Luka Okanishi's original.
28	direct H-to-MWSS	Anivec, Period1GliderGun, and Lucy D'Agostino	A compact, direct H-to-MWSS converter by Anivec with faster, smaller variants by Period1GliderGun, and Lucy D'Agostino.
29	biblock wire racetrack	confocaloid and Keith Amling	A racetrack oscillator by confocaloid showcasing a diagonal 5c/26 biblock wire by Keith Amling.
30	stably supported traffic jam	iNoMed	Stable supports for a traffic jam wire corner which allow all possible periods for wire-based traffic jam oscillators (i.e., all periods of the form 100+2n).
31	smaller sawtooth-based diehard	b3s23love and Tim Coe	A new sawtooth-based diehard with a record bounding box of 47x47, reduced from 53x53.
32	reduced prime-period guns	Vort, confocaloid, Louis-François Handfield, et al.	Substantial reductions to the maximum and average sizes of guns with four-digit prime periods.
33	The 323, a 32-bit computer	blah	A 32-bit computer implemented in Conway's Game of Life along with an assembler script, example programs, extensive HTML documentation and an MP4 introductory video.
34	Smaller Unique father solution	400spartans	A still life solution to the unique father problem with a record small population of 184 cells and a record small self-forcing patch with 271 specified cells.
35	651-tick highway robber	Entity Valkyrie	A record fast-recovering highway robber, reducing the repeat time from 742 ticks to 651 ticks.
36	Kermit synthesis	Goldtiger997, vilc, and others	A massive project to synthesize the c/5 ship Kermit.
37	New Oscillator Discoveries	Various	An enormous collection of new oscillators.