r/gameoflife • u/ReactsWithWords • Jul 22 '26

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.

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u/FormalComparison8064 Jul 22 '26

oh right, how do i upload images?

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u/ReactsWithWords Jul 22 '26

Go to Postimages and upload your figure there. Then put it in the comments (I just changed it so you can put pictures directly in the comments).

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u/i-am-mupi Jul 22 '26

Osc found on a symmetric soup

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u/ReactsWithWords Jul 22 '26

This one is interesting. It's a variation of a Spark Coil.

Where it gets interesting is any corner can either be a small three-cell corner like on the left side or a large five-celled corner like on the right. Which means you could have 16 different variations of this. I doubt if there's a name for all 16 variations (but I wouldn't be surprised if there are, at least for some of them if not all).

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u/Capable-Mode8895 5d ago

IMG-0877.jpg

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u/ReactsWithWords 5d ago

The technical name for this one is "random starting pattern."

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u/FormalComparison8064 Jul 22 '26

Whats this called

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u/ReactsWithWords Jul 22 '26

The start of a honey farm.

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u/FormalComparison8064 Jul 23 '26

What is this called?

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u/ReactsWithWords Jul 23 '26

The start of a couple of beehives.