Mini Normal 2304: Conway's Game Of Life [GAME OVER!]

[KittyTacky]

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Glider

The glider (or featherweight spaceship) is the smallest, most common, and first-discovered spaceship in Game of Life. It travels diagonally across the grid at a speed of c/4. Gliders are important because they are easily produced (by glider guns and rakes - for an example see the Gosper glider gun), can be collided with each other to form more complicated patterns (see glider synthesis), and can be used to transmit information over long distances.

Its name is due in part to the fact that it is glide symmetric; however, John Conway has stated he regrets calling it a glider, saying it looks more like an ant walking across the plane.

The glider was found by Richard K. Guy in 1969 while Conway's group was attempting to track the evolution of the R-pentomino. It is often wrongly stated that John Conway discovered the glider, but Conway himself has said that it was Guy, a fact expounded in Conway's biography, Genius at Play:
[…] They'd all head back to the department eventually and continue on the trail of the methuselah r-pentomino, hoping to happen upon an information stream. The Life computer program was still in the works, so frustration over their lack of success was exacerbated by the fact that the investigators were still working manually. Even 10 generations proved nearly impossible to document accurately without elaborate and diligent checks. In this regard, a force for good arrived in the form of Richard Guy, Mike's father, who visited nearly every summer. British-born, he had studied mathematics at Cambridge, spending much of his time playing and analyzing chess, composing endgame problems that he published in the British Chess Magazine. This led to his intensive games research, considered pivotal in the history of combinatorial game theory. He served in the Royal Air Force during the war and as a meteorologist in Iceland and Bermuda, then lectured for a time at the University of London, as well as in Singapore and in Delhi at the Indian Institute of Technology, before eventually landing at the University of Calgary. A precisian fellow—precise, careful, fastidious, conscientious—qualities of character that the Lifers on the whole lacked. Conway appointed him “blinker watcher,” a tedious task. He kept an accounting of blinkers and other debris that splintered off from center stage as the action in the spotlight evolved generation upon generation.

Late in the fall of 1969, as the group was still on the trail of the r-pentomino, the elder Guy's attention to detail paid off. The drama had been building since generation 27, when the scene split, stage left and stage right, each a microcosm of chaos unto itself. At generation 69, Guy noticed an animal that no one had ever seen before. It seemed to be wiggling, skittering, gliding its way diagonally across the board. He hollered to the others: “Come over here, there's a piece that's walking!” This was the first step toward proving Life universal. Conway christened this walking piece the “glider” (though now he wishes he'd called it the “ant”), because after two moves its position differs from the starting position by a “glide reflection,” a symmetry operation, and at generation 4 it looks exactly the same as it did at generation 0, but it has glided diagonally downward by a single place. […]

Historical note: An R-pentomino tracked past T = 69 in late 1969 certainly implies that the glider, and a number of other objects such as blocks and blinkers, were first seen by Conway's group before 1970. However, for most objects it is difficult to pinpoint a definite date of discovery, so the LifeWiki and other sources traditionally use 1970 as the official figure for any objects known at the time of publication of Martin Gardner's first Scientific American article in October 1970. For many years Conway consistently "rounded up" his discovery of the Game of Life to 1970.

Source: LifeWiki

Vote Count 1.3

With 13 votes in play, it takes 7 to eliminate.

Espeonage

(4): Peregrine, humaneatingmonkey, sheepsaysmeep, Random Nurse

humaneatingmonkey

(2): bob3141, Espeonage

bob3141

(2): Hu Tao, Doctor Drew

Not_Mafia

(2): Quiet Owl, Not_Mafia

Hu Tao

(1): Dunnstral

sheepsaysmeep

(1): Save The Dragons

Not Voting

(1): Bellaphant

Deadline:

(expired on 2023-07-04 10:00:00).

Mod notes:

Not many votes so I have been quiet sorry.

Bellaphant has been prodded.

[Random Nurse]

@Kitty the vote count numbers are wrong for HEM, NM, and Bob.

[sheepsaysmeep]

hey random nurse can you describe what you think about my slot overall a bit more

does it bother you that you seem to find me scummy but youre voting on the same wagon as me?

[Hu Tao]

Sorry. I've been a bit busy. I'll catch up tomorrow for sure.

[Doctor Drew]

I dunno

I think the parts of nurse posting that are directed to me are pretty wolfy lol they feel like trying to force a scumread but struggling to

I think all other parts of nurse posting are very villagery

I am having a hard time sussing out your read on them.

And isn't trying to force a scum read pretty damn.....uh, damning?

Sheep I was mod sniped.

Just didn't want this to get buried.

[sheepsaysmeep]

I dunno

I think the parts of nurse posting that are directed to me are pretty wolfy lol they feel like trying to force a scumread but struggling to

I think all other parts of nurse posting are very villagery

I am having a hard time sussing out your read on them.

And isn't trying to force a scum read pretty damn.....uh, damning?

idk I think the towny stuff prob substantially overrides the other stuff. im probably omgus'ing a bit?? the positioning around me just bugs me a lot and I would like a clearer stance

but like, it wasnt that they voiced a scumread, and it felt forced. it was just like, the catchup felt weirdly focused on me; I saw my name like 4 times and that was pingy

[sheepsaysmeep]

whats your take on them doctor drew

[Doctor Drew]

whats your take on them doctor drew

Quick ISO on them, whole lotta nothing.

I really didn't seen any sort of stance......just random snipes.

I have no idea how you found anything they said as towny.

[sheepsaysmeep]

I just iso'd. non-stancing seems pretty inaccurate to me?

I thought it was random aggressing but it was actually more reflective / thoughtful than I thought it was lmao. but mainly I liked their owl push + something something 15 posts in a row and didn't feel forced = villa lolz

[sheepsaysmeep]

although I think they should answer Dunn's question about how much experience they have. if they are experienced it probably negates some of the things I am townreading

[sheepsaysmeep]

although I think they should answer Dunn's question about how much experience they have. if they are experienced it probably negates some of the things I am townreading

@random nurse

[Random Nurse]

How much experience do you have with mafia Random Nurse?

All I can say is that I do have experience with Mafia.

[Dunnstral]

OK.


I liked your contribution from posts 186 to 200.

[Random Nurse]

OK.

I liked your contribution from posts 186 to 200.

*gushes*

[Quiet Owl]

VOTE: Hu Tao

would like to see more from them. perhaps their thoughts on drew?

[KittyTacky]

@Kitty the vote count numbers are wrong for HEM, NM, and Bob.

Fixed but how is it wrong for NM?

[bob3141]

VOTE: Hu Tao

would like to see more from them. perhaps their thoughts on drew?

Why specifically Drew?

[bob3141]

hu and bob seems like town vs town. having looked closely at their interactions, drew's behaviour looks even weirder. a really really awkward pocketing attempt maybe?

Also why the vote on Hy Tao when as far as i can tell the only really prior stance on him is this one. going from hu looking liek town to a vote.

On the back of dunns vote on Hu Tao. Looks very opportunistic and with little progression.

VOTE: Owl

[Dunnstral]

How is that opportunistic when there are several other players with more votes than Hu Tao that they could have voted?

[bob3141]

How is that opportunistic when there are several other players with more votes than Hu Tao that they could have voted?

Just because there could be more opportunistic Votes doesnt mean its not opportunistic (though maybe in looser meaning then the term oppoertunistic scum). The main bit was the progression though. from neut to town lean and then a vote. With very little to justify the reads.

Based on his reads the logical vote would be Drew. Instead he flips his vote onto a player that his last read on was that drew was trying to pocket Hu Toa. And that bob v HU Toa looked town v town

[Hu Tao]

VOTE: Hu Tao

would like to see more from them. perhaps their thoughts on drew?

VOTE: owl

I've barely posted in the past 3 or 4 days and still have more posts than you but your reasoning for voting me is 'wanting to see more' sure. This seems like you just noticed me saying I'd catch up later and wanted a reason to vote someone

[Hu Tao]

Also I've posted my thoughts on drew in the past already. So you didn't iso me or want to see more from me otherwise you would have seen that already

[Hu Tao]

whats your take on them doctor drew

VOTE: Hu Tao

would like to see more from them. perhaps their thoughts on drew?

Seems like trying to piggyback on this and not actually paying attention

[Hu Tao]

How is that opportunistic when there are several other players with more votes than Hu Tao that they could have voted?

I posted my reason why I think it is imo

[Hu Tao]

sheepsaysmeep - town
Doctor Drew - towny
humaneatingmonkey - town
Peregrine - towny but maybe it's just the good vibes lmaoo
Random Nurse - towny
bob3141 - towny, but it's almost a "too wolfy to be wolf" read so it's a weird area
Dunnstral - ever slightly townlean I guess

Bellaphant - idk
Not_Mafia - no clue
Hu Tao - he's fine but sort of disappointing/underwhelming and maybe that's wolfy idk please go closer to your full potential
Save The Dragons - pings me a little
Espeonage - scummy I think
Quiet Owl - scummy

Explain why I'm disappointing so far?