that the first elementary knightship, Sir Robin, was discovered only in 2018, with there having been a very close call in 2004? that all still lifes up to 17 cells can be synthesized at a cost of less than one glider per cell? that the odds of a randomly-chosen 20 × 20 soup pattern being a methuselah that lasts between N and N + 1000 ticks, are roughly the same as the odds that it will last any amount of time longer than N + 1000 ticks? that the number of still lifes with N+1 bits is roughly 2.48 times larger than the number of N-bit still lifes? that there is roughly one chance in 10^(N/3) that a still life appearing out of random soup will have a population of exactly N cells? that among Life-like (outer-totalistic) rules, Conway's Life's 'near neighbours' B35/S23, B36/S23, and B38/S23 are not explosive, but B37/S23 is? that all known glider eaters take at least four ticks to recover to their original state after eating a glider?

zip archive containing approximately 75 pattern files for other cellular automata zip archive containing the 5200+ Game of Life RLE pattern files used on the wikiĪlso available: 38KB.

October 20: Nico Brown finds a new p41 engine, the p41 pi-heptomino hassler.ĦMB.October 22: iNoMed finds a new period-201 glider gun engine, the first engine of that period to be found and the smallest gun of that period by bounding box.The previous lowest known c/4 diagonal rake period was 4508. Two days later, praosylen modifies the p116 puffer to form a dirty rake and Evin uses this dirty rake to construct a clean p116 rake. November 8-10: Keith Amling discovers a high-clearance variant of a known p28 c/4 diagonal puffer and combines two such engines to form a p116 puffer.November 12-13: Keith Amling completes a census of all period-3 ships up to 49 cells and all period-2 ships up to 80 cells which discovers 6 new c/3 ships and proves that 64P2H1V0 is the smallest possible period-2 ship.November 14: Mitchell Riley discovers 44P49, the smallest known period-49 oscillator, which quickly leads to a number of related SKOP records being broken.November 15: Keith Amling proves that 30P5H2V0 is the unique smallest possible period-5 2c/5 orthogonal spaceship in terms of its minimum population of 30 cells.

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