andrewthehacker

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1. 1.▲
   by andrewthehacker 5y ago

   NOTE: The central patch which settled the conjecture is a chunk of an infinite repetitive configuration composed of 2x2 "blocks" and S-looking shapes "snakes". Given that the block-square pattern is somewhat well known i
2. 2.▲
   by andrewthehacker 5y ago

   Plenty of patterns are stable (in fact, infinitely many), but what we didn't have before today is a stable pattern which cannot be constructed from scratch . This is such a pattern, because the patch in the middle must have existed si
3. 3.▲
   by andrewthehacker 5y ago

   The purpose of the cells in yellow is to turn the patch relevant to this discussion into a still life: it's already got the property of "must exist in gen N-1 if it is in gen N" without those yellows, but this serves to keep