Files
Original files created in Golly containing explorations, experiments, and collections of objects.
Each file is the latest surviving version (most from 2008–2010). View opens it in the in-browser player; for the largest files (the p192 backward free rake is about 30,000 cells) Golly is much faster.
Files page (2008)
Anchor eater ships
Exploration of various flotillas that support anchor eaters
Anchor track flotillas
Exploration of various flotillas which use anchors and anchor tracks perpendicular to the direction of travel
Anchor track periods
Periods of known (small) anchor tracks, including those with unusual initial states
Dot reactions
Examples of puffers that produce dot trails at known periods, and eaters or other mechanisms for consuming these trails
Freedom fighter experiments
Examples of support flotillas for freedom fighters of various periods
Giant monster puffer experiment
A monster puffer built from free rakes and other elements
Giant radar puffer experiment
A radar puffer built from free rakes and other elements
Horn exploration
Examples of puffers created by the interactions between horns of various spaceships
Lever puffer experiment
A puffer built from free rakes and other elements that produces levers along with other debris
Live Free or Die condensed
A condensed collection of all known oscillators, spaceships, and puffers
Minimalist p12 flotillas
Various flotillas built using only free ships and 2-2 dot puffers
Monster stack puffer
This huge puffer is unique because it leaves behind a 3-cell-wide swath in which every cell is active forever
Moon rake experiment
Examples of moon rakes built with free rakes and other elements
Moon reactions
Collisions of moons with various objects to obtain useful results
Near-explosive puffer experiment
An interesting reaction created in an anchor track flotilla
Near-rake
An object which acts as a backward moon rake until the moon fired interacts with its dot trail explosively
Oscillators
Non-condensed set of known oscillators, including stacks of oscillators
p192 backward free rake
Live Free or Die’s largest engineered object to date, which uses p192 and p96 freedom fighter flotillas and additional elements to produce backward-launched free ships
Period examples
A collection of the smallest known oscillators, spaceships, and/or puffers for every known period less than 100
Pre-sparks
A collection of the smallest known objects which die in n generations
Puffers by output (p4)
Set of p4 puffers organized by the trails they produce
Random to safe experiments
Exploration of the minimum changes necessary to convert random explosive patterns into non-explosive patterns, pre-sparks, and sparks
Shrinkers
A collection of known shrinkers for robot, dot, and sun ships and puffers
Small spaceships
A collection of all known spaceships with a minimum population of 12 cells or fewer
Small sparks
A collection of all known sparks with a population of 12 cells or fewer, organized by size
Small sparks by type
A collection of all known sparks with a population of 12 cells or fewer, organized by construction
Taming experiments
Exploration of converting certain explosive objects into non-explosive objects
Period examples (digits)
The smallest known object of each period, arranged by digit (March 2008 version; linked from Period Explorations).
Other files from the site folder
These were uploaded to the site or kept alongside it but weren’t on the Files page, including the original files of Josh Ball’s discoveries as he sent them.
Live Free or Die summarized
A summary collection of the most significant objects (June 2009). Not linked from the 2008 Files page.
Forge puffers
Both known forge puffers, including the iteration with the 14-cell wing (June 2009).
Anchor track processor experiments
Experiments with anchor tracks as signal processors (August 2008).
Hot sand
Early collection of hot sand fuses (February 2008), later merged into Fuses.
Double moon rake experiment
A double moon rake built from free rakes (February 2008).
Later files
Anchor tracks
A collection of anchor tracks (an oscillator of extensible period) with their periods labeled. (wiki collection, October 2013)
Collection
- it excludes flotillas, trailers, tagalongs, and larger iterations of extensible objects, but otherwise has every known oscillator, puffer, and spaceship in the rule. (wiki collection, October 2013)
Flotillas - Anchor eater ships
Various spaceships formed by multiple puffers with an anchor eater trailer. (wiki collection, October 2013)
Flotillas - Backward free ship rake
A large p192 clean backward free ship rake built using anchor track flotilla technology. (wiki collection, October 2013)
Flotillas - Freedom fighter ships
Various spaceships built using the freedom fighter trailer, which allows construction of spaceships of arbitrarily large period. (wiki collection, October 2013)
Flotillas - Monster stack puffer
A large anchor track flotilla that produces three-monster stacks whose bounding boxes overlap, leaving a trail whose three-cell-wide center is active forever. (wiki collection, October 2013)
Flotillas - Moon rakes
A few examples of clean moon rakes built using anchor track flotilla technology. (wiki collection, October 2013)
Flotillas - Output examples
Puffers and flotillas that leave clean trails of various oscillators. (wiki collection, October 2013)
Gun
The only known gun, a p4 double-barreled moon gun, discovered by Matthias Merzenich. (wiki collection, October 2013)
Hot sand
Some ways of building and burning hot sand, a stable fuse. (wiki collection, October 2013)
Metronome puffers and ships
Several iterations of p4 c metronome puffers and ships, which are extensible in various ways. (wiki collection, October 2013)
Oscillators
All known oscillators, excluding larger iterations of extensible oscillators. (wiki collection, October 2013)
Period examples
An example of an oscillator, puffer, and/or spaceship for each known period less than 100. (wiki collection, October 2013)
Pre-sparks
A collection of the smallest known objects that die in a given number of generations. (wiki collection, October 2013)
Puffers
All known puffers, excluding flotillas and larger iterations of extensible puffers. (wiki collection, October 2013)
Reactions
Some useful reactions of spaceships and oscillators. (wiki collection, October 2013)
Small spaceships
All known spaceships with a minimum of 12 live cells or fewer, including those built using tagalongs. (wiki collection, October 2013)
Spaceships
All known spaceships, excluding flotillas and larger iterations of extensible spaceships. (wiki collection, October 2013)
Sparks
A collection of small patterns that die in one generation. (wiki collection, October 2013)
Trailers and tagalongs
A collection of all known trailers and tagalongs, excluding larger iterations of extensible objects. (wiki collection, October 2013)
Nora Brown c/2 collection (first version)
Nora Brown’s collection of c/2 spaceships and rakes, posted as a Golly macrocell on December 25, 2014; converted to RLE.
Nora Brown c/2 collection
Nora Brown’s collection of c/2 spaceships and rakes, posted as a Golly macrocell on December 29, 2014; converted to RLE. Grouped by front end: rakes at top; then rows of horned ships and unicorn ships; then four hippo ships and, to their right, the fox ship; and buffalo ships at the bottom.