Solution to 3: Still Life

These are patterns from Conway's game of life. Everything except the flower is a "still life", i.e. stable. The flower (according to conwaylife.com/wiki) is one of a few known "Gardens of Eden": states that can only exist as initial states and can not be reached through evolution from another state. "Like no other" is a more oblique hint at the fact that a Garden of Eden is derived from an "orphan".

Clue on guessing CONWAY: He started it all.

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