Conway's Life: Work in Progress

Miscellaneous topics in Conway's Game of Life -- unfinished projects of all kinds and conditions

10 November 2018

New Tools for Self-Construction

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Time for a new post on self-constructing circuitry! I've been updating the same old post since 2014, but I think there's now some ...
16 June 2018

Fixed Cost Glider Construction, Part II

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Design Summary for Fixed-Cost Glider Construction The previous post summarized the new 329-glider reverse caber tosser universal construct...
13 June 2018

The Answer to Life's Ultimate Question is 42 -- But the Cost of Life Construction is Capped at 329...59...58...50...44... 43... 35...32...17...16...15

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Code: Select all #C universal constructor based on reverse caber tosser #C Completed 10 June 2018 #C Original de...
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10 March 2018

It Happened One Knight

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On 6 March 2018 the first member of a new class of Conway's Life spaceships was discovered. This is Sir Robin, the first elementary spa...
15 October 2016

14-, 15-, and 16-bit still life syntheses

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A week or so ago, a better recipe was found for the last still life on Mark Niemiec's list of expensive 14-bit syntheses. Now all 14-b...
12 June 2016

New spaceship speed: 3c/7

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Tim Coe has found a symmetrical spaceship with a new speed, 3c/7 (left, below) after a series of searches that took a total of "one or ...
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