It was unclear to me whether this post directly spurred the work on clearing away Ash or if that’s just the sort of thing Game of Life community would have been doing anyway. Did you have a strong sense of that?
Oh the only information I have about that is Dave Green’s comment, plus a few private messages from people over the years who had read the post and were interested in experimenting with concrete GoL constructions. I just messaged the author of the post on the GoL forum asking about whether any of that work was spurred by this post.
It was unclear to me whether this post directly spurred the work on clearing away Ash or if that’s just the sort of thing Game of Life community would have been doing anyway. Did you have a strong sense of that?
Oh the only information I have about that is Dave Green’s comment, plus a few private messages from people over the years who had read the post and were interested in experimenting with concrete GoL constructions. I just messaged the author of the post on the GoL forum asking about whether any of that work was spurred by this post.