This archive contains patterns and collections that are too large to distribute with Golly. They are listed below in alphabetical order by category.

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Table of Contents


Computation, Storage, and Display Devices

Hex-3digit-7seg [221K]
A 3-digit hexadecimal counter. Details in pattern comments. By Adam P. Goucher.
Mersenne-44497 [275K]
An oscillator with period 2^44497-1, which is a Mersenne prime. By Adam P. Goucher.
Mersenne-82589933 [5K]
An oscillator with period 2^82589933-1, the largest known Mersenne prime as of September 2019. By Dave Greene.
mona-lisa-from-one-cell.zip [114K]
A one-cell pattern (and associated rule!) that re-creates a color image of the Mona Lisa. By 'blah'.
O(sqrt(log(t))) [337K]
A pattern whose diameter grows as asymptotically slowly as possible for any pattern. By Adam P. Goucher.
Phi calculator [378K]
A machine that computes and prints the decimal digits of phi, the positive real root of x^2 - x - 1. By Adam P. Goucher.
Pi calculator [377K]
A machine that computes and prints the decimal digits of pi. By Adam P. Goucher.
Sierpinski calculator [137K]
A c/10 rake pattern using mobile logic modules to simulate Wolfram Rule 146. By conwaylife.com forum member 'GilGil'.
Spartan Universal Computer/Constructor [335K]
A pattern constructed in 2009, theoretically capable of being programmed to construct any glider-constructible object (including itself). By Adam P. Goucher.


Pattern Collections

Just Friends [94K]
David Bell's collection of patterns that use a non-totalistic rule known as "Just Friends". Golly 2.8 or later is required.
Emmanuel Sapin alien gun collection [94K]
Prof. Emmanuel Sapin's collection of 15,000 small guns in a variety of isotropic non-totalistic Moore-neighborhood rules. Golly 2.8 or later is required.
Smallest Oscillators Supporting Specific Speeds [51K]
Collection of smallest known oscillators by minimum population for each period for isotropic rules without B0.


Replicators

Codd-self-rep [12MB] (!)
Tim Hutton's implementation of Codd's self-replicating computer.
Bletchley replicator [119K]
A self-replicating loop in Codd's cellular automaton. See the pattern information for more details, including the etymology of the title! By Adam P. Goucher.
Linear propagator [27K]
A period-237228340 self-constructor that, unlike the original Gemini, retains and duplicates its genome. See this forum post for more details. By Dave Greene.


Self-Constructing Spaceships

0E0P metaglider [7.88MB]
A very large, very slow c/1048576 macro-spaceship made from five self-constructing 0E0P metacells programmed to simulate a Conway's Life glider. By Adam P. Goucher.
0hd Demonoid [34K]
An optimized version of the 0hd Demonoid, period 438852. Based on the previous 10hd Demonoid design. By Chris Cain.
10hd Demonoid [48K]
The first completed Demonoid, using an efficient 10hd construction arm and manually compiled slow-salvo recipes. By Chris Cain and Dave Greene.
Camelship [722K]
The first self-constructing small-step camelship, traveling at (3,1)c/39482674+8N. By Chris Cain.
c/17 Caterloopillar [68K]
A c/17 "strange-loop" spaceship, where each half uses slow salvos to construct the other half. See pattern info for other speeds and more details. By Michael Simkin.
Gemini spaceship [606K]
The original (5120,1024)c/33699586 universal constructor based spaceship. By Andrew D. Wade.
Loopship [221K]
Self-constructing 2000260c/40007022 spaceship. Moves by alternately constructing temporary memory loops for its recipe on either side of its path. By Dave Greene.


Self-Supporting Spaceships

Caterpillar [2.9MB]
A 17c/45 spaceship, by Gabriel Nivasch, Jason Summers, and David Bell. This spaceship has a period of 270 generations, moving up 102 cells every cycle. See Gabriel's page for more information.
Centipede [722K]
A self-supporting 31c/240 spaceship, much smaller than the shield bug. By Chris Cain.
Half-baked knightship [136K]
A slow knightship by Adam P. Goucher with components from Dave Greene, Ivan Fomichev and Chris Cain.
Shield bug [722K]
The first self-supporting 31c/240 spaceship, using recipes and rakes from a large collaborative effort. By Dave Greene.
Waterbear [696K]
The smallest known oblique spaceship. By Brett Berger.


Signal Converters

Goldtiger997's Amazing Minstrel Remover and Detector (TM) [82K]
A detector mechanism that removes one of a number of possible minstrels from a passing Sir Robin, and produces a different signal for each. By Goldtiger997.
Glider to weekender to glider converter [61K] (Lua script [28K])
A converter mechanism using a 79-glider synthesis recipe to convert a single input glider into a 2c/7 weekender spaceship. By Chris Cain.
Lightspeed telegraph [63K]
The original period-1440 lightspeed telegraph. By Jason Summers.
Stable telegraph [461K]
A period-1 variant of Jason Summers' p1440 telegraph (see above). By Adam P. Goucher.


Spaceship Guns

0hd Demonoid gun [44K]
A gun that periodically emits copies of Chris Cain's 0hd Demonoid spaceship. The very first 0hd Demonoid in existence was shot from this gun. By Chris Cain.
Basilisk-gun [284K]
A gun in HighLife firing c/24 XOR-extensible replicator spaceships (known as Basilisks). See the relevant cp4space post for more details. By Adam P. Goucher.
Gemini-gun-p74820116 [1.9MB]
A gun that periodically emits copies of Andrew Wade's self-constructing spaceship, Gemini. See the pattern comments for more information. By Dave Greene.
HBK gun [674K]
A half-baked knightship gun by Chris Cain and Michael Simkin.


Universal Construction

Hydra / QGC1 [82K]
A constructor-based quadratic growth pattern that surrounds itself with an increasing number of branching streams of single-channel recipe gliders. By Oscar Cunningham.
Multi-Cordership Herschel loop [34K]
A large Herschel loop designed to hold a single-channel recipe that repeatedly constructs and triggers Cordership seeds. By Dave Greene.