r/gameoflife • u/gariduenor • 1d ago
r/gameoflife • u/ReactsWithWords • 1d ago
What's This Called megathread
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 • u/ReactsWithWords • 15d ago
No more "I found a new pattern" posts allowed.
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 • u/ReactsWithWords • 3d ago
Mod question for the hivemind
"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 • u/Subject-Ad-7548 • 5d ago
Does this still life have a name?
after finding out what induction coils do, i was messing with them until i found this.
r/gameoflife • u/Such_Ad754 • 5d ago
Alternate ruleset What gliders look like in some alternative rulestrings
r/gameoflife • u/Muhsendagamer • 7d ago
I found mood changer :3
he’s a lil boi who keeps changing emotions
i call him mood changer
r/gameoflife • u/SKEETER6556 • 6d ago
What's this thing called if it has already been discovered?
r/gameoflife • u/PortablePorcelain • 7d ago
Common figure iS tHiS nEw?????
In case you're as pea-brained as most posters here, this is a joke.
r/gameoflife • u/Express_March_8607 • 9d ago
A lecture about the game of life (comic implementation)
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 • u/Evening-Appeal7606 • 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 • u/Evening-Appeal7606 • 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 • u/No_Photograph6406 • 16d ago
i found a new still life but this time it's not one found before
less than 100 cells btw
name: thing.
r/gameoflife • u/Pitiful_Move_5560 • 15d ago
did i just found a new formaion
i reposted this because i did a error on the old post