Conway's Life: Work in Progress

[thumbnail at .5 sub-pixel zoom -- click on image to expand] attempted sawtooth pattern with incorrect timing -- runs for three cycles and ...

Update: 22 July 2005 07:22 Hartmut Holzwart has produced some new partial results related to perpendicular greyships -- i.e., spaceships who...

Jul 1: #C diamond-shaped greyship Hartmut Holzwart 1 Jul 2005 x = 88, y = 83, rule = B3/S23 50bobo$49bobbo$48boo$47bo3bo$46b3obo$45bo$44b7...

Structured patterns Something I've been wanting to do for a while now is to produce a structured description of Gabriel Nivasch's Ca...

The new 2c/3 receiver accepts diagonal signals from the track and uses a repeatable reaction to convert these signals into output gliders. (...

2c/3 is a respectable speed in the Life universe; by comparison, a glider travels at only one-fourth of the speed of light, and it was prove...