r/gameoflife 1d ago

What's This Called megathread

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If you found a figure you want to know the name of, post it here. Any individual post will be deleted.

IMPORTANT!

Only post patterns that are still lives or oscillators. Nobody cares about your starting pattern, however pretty it is; only what it turns in to. Glider guns are also acceptable.


r/gameoflife 15d ago

No more "I found a new pattern" posts allowed.

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No, you did not find a new pattern. These posts will be deleted on the spot.

Edit: "Has this been found yet?" will also be deleted. Yes, it has been found.

"What is this pattern called?" posts are always welcome, even for very common patterns.


r/gameoflife 1d ago

Common figure What ISN'T this called?

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r/gameoflife 1d ago

Stilllife

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r/gameoflife 2d ago

Does this have a name?

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r/gameoflife 1d ago

What is this called

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r/gameoflife 2d ago

What is this called?

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r/gameoflife 3d ago

Common figure Whats this called?

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r/gameoflife 3d ago

Mod question for the hivemind

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"What's this figure called?" are common posts here. I will assume these questions are sincere and will allow them, but this isn't about that.

I've noticed lately people will give the wrong answer. Normally someone posts the correct answer so I just downvote the wrong answer and move on.

My question: Should I delete these wrong answers? Although it's obvious from the upvoted correct answers and downvoted wrong answers which is correct, this could still spread misinformation to someone who isn't paying attention. Or should I leave it up to the user to figure it out themselves?


r/gameoflife 3d ago

Common figure What is this called>

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r/gameoflife 5d ago

Does this still life have a name?

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after finding out what induction coils do, i was messing with them until i found this.


r/gameoflife 5d ago

Alternate ruleset What gliders look like in some alternative rulestrings

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r/gameoflife 6d ago

Alternate ruleset Butterfly effect?

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r/gameoflife 6d ago

what is this called?

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r/gameoflife 7d ago

I found mood changer :3

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he’s a lil boi who keeps changing emotions

i call him mood changer


r/gameoflife 6d ago

What's this thing called if it has already been discovered?

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r/gameoflife 7d ago

Common figure iS tHiS nEw?????

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In case you're as pea-brained as most posters here, this is a joke.


r/gameoflife 8d ago

hey guys look

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r/gameoflife 9d ago

MEGALOVANIA (Cover)

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r/gameoflife 9d ago

A lecture about the game of life (comic implementation)

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One day, I wanted to implement a "Game of Life." It was purely for educational purposes. Having achieved the desired result, I thought: why not add a little fun?


r/gameoflife 12d ago

Alternate ruleset GOL patterns strive for dominance on the Torus

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The "Adversarial Conway" algorithm used in Hashwar is already coded as a toroidal geometry, so we hereby introduce a 3D modelling of the battle space instead of the classic 2D map to represent the strive for domination of our Conway Glyphs.


r/gameoflife 13d ago

what are these

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r/gameoflife 15d ago

Alternate ruleset Working on a tournament system that pits high-lifespan $16 \times 16$ torus configurations ($B3/S23$) against each other. Here is the upcoming identity registry interface.

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Scheduled for the second half of July: Open your own Foundry with us at lifehashes.net to seek Conway Glyphs and field them with the weekly Hashwar tournament series.

I am currently working on making an interface available that lets you seek Conway's Game of Life patterns on the 16x16 torus (B3/S23 ruleset) that have high non-repeating generational count. The minimum lifespan of those patterns we let compete in our Hashwar series is "weight class" 500, i.e. they live for 500-599 generations before reaching a halting state (void, static patterns) or a repeat pattern (flickers, gliders, Agars).

It's called "lifehashes" because calculating the SHA256 hash string from the initial configuration is essential to determine the characteristics of the Glyphs - most strikingly their intrinsic colour which is shown in the video to be encoded as characters #4-9 of the hash string.

Once the Foundry logic is ready and in production, you can open free accounts and hash/mine Glyphs to your hearts content. I am hoping for stiff competition for my champion pattern "The Cardinal", winner of the first weekly Hashwar series: ■ HASHWAR // NETWORK CONSOLE


r/gameoflife 16d ago

i found a new still life but this time it's not one found before

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less than 100 cells btw

name: thing.


r/gameoflife 15d ago

did i just found a new formaion

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i reposted this because i did a error on the old post