Michael Simkin
Michael Simkin is a Life enthusiast who has contributed to various fields of Conway's Game of Life research.
| Michael Simkin | |
| Born | Unknown |
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| Residence | Unknown |
| Nationality | Unknown |
| Institutions | Unknown |
| Alma mater | Unknown |
He constructed the Caterloopillar, an engineered spaceship which can be adjusted to travel at an infinite number of orthogonal speeds.[1] It won the Pattern of the Year competition for 2016, beating the copperhead by a small margin.[2]
He also found switch engine ping-pong (the smallest known pattern exhibiting quadratic growth) and the Simkin glider gun, which is the smallest known gun and was the runner-up in the Pattern of the Year competition for 2015.[3]
He contributes to the ConwayLife.com forums under the username "simsim314."
Patterns found by Michael Simkin
gollark: Anyway, my idea is cool and good™.
gollark: Apparently, alcohol?
gollark: SQLar™ compresses files individually, thus bad. *But* if you just batch files into chunks of 32MB or so and compress those, this is efficiency.
gollark: I have an idea for mildly improving compression efficiency.
gollark: Coming soon from osmarks.tk™™ product development®™: ApioArchive™, abusing SQLite™ for fun and profit.
References
- Michael Simkin (April 15, 2016). "Re: Caterloopillar WIP (all speeds < c/4)". Retrieved on November 17, 2018.
- Alexey Nigin (June 3, 2017). "Pattern of the Year 2016 (Results)". Retrieved on November 17, 2018.
- Alexey Nigin (February 11, 2016). "Re: Pattern of the Year 2015 (Votes)". Retrieved on November 17, 2018.
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