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> There has been no true replicator found yet in Life as far as I know...

Actually more than one true replicator has been constructed. The 0E0P metacell

https://conwaylife.com/wiki/0E0P_metacell

can be programmed to self-replicate in any number of ways, but it's so big that it's very hard to simulate it through a full cycle. By contrast, Pavel Grankovskiy's "DOGun SaGaQR"

https://conwaylife.com/forums/viewtopic.php?&p=138191#p13819...

only has one pattern of replication, but it's much simpler than the 0E0P metacell and can easily be run through many cycles in Golly.





OK, I didn't know if it was a "true" replicator (what even does "true" mean) so I excluded it. And, running a true replicator from other rule in 0E0P takes millenia, so that leaves DOGun SaGaQR (specifically the QR configuration). Sorry.



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