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hotcrystal0 wrote: ↑

Yesterday, 7:31 am

Feel free to move this to The Sandbox if you wish.

Done.

Golly 4.3b2 is now available for testing I hope I'm not too late to submit two more updates to patterns already in the collection: traffic-light-hasslers.rle (switched to one-per-period format): #C The patterns in this collection hassle common predecessors of the #C traffic light constellation. The...

This thread is for when you find an oscillator with a search program, but it doesn’t belong in the Oscillator Discussion Thread or any Sandbox thread. Under what circumstances would an oscillator found with LLS/JLS/WLS not belong in the oscillator discussion thread or the sandbox? I would think the...

I was just recently looking at oscillators with low heat. Burloaferimeter with heat 10/7 ≈ 1.43 is the only known oscillator with heat below 2. However, oscillators with heat greater than but arbitrarily close to 4/3 ≈ 1.33 almost certainly exist. This is because the 2c/3 half-signal has heat 4/3. x...

Oh, my goodness, thanks so much for helping me bro! Does qfind appear to be working properly now? With the example input given above, the output should look like this: qfind v2.3 by Matthias Merzenich, 19 March 2023 Input: qfind -r B3/S23 -p 10 -y 1 -w 5 -s even -t 1 Rule: B3/S23 Period: 10 Offset:...

edit by Haycat2009 to Grin reagent changed "iteration" to "tick," with description "use less jargon" The standard term is "generation". "Tick" typically also means "generation" in this context, but "iteration" does not, so I think Haycat2009 was right to change it; however, I think "generation" is ...

When I put the directory of the folder, like cd "C:\Users\Matthias\Documents\Life\qfind" and so, it brings me to the file, then what? When I type this qfind -r B3/S23 -p 10 -y 1 -w 5 -s even -t 2 into the C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd windows command line, it just says that 'qfind' is not recognized as a...

Okay, so, after I did all the steps, when I open qfind.exe, it just keeps on closing, is it meant to do that? To be clear, you should not at any point click on qfind.exe in your file explorer. It won't do anything and will close immediately. Everything is done through the command line. Step 5 is wh...

creeperman7002 wrote: ↑

March 29th, 2024, 6:50 pm

New seminatural 2c/38 spaceship in 2x2!

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x = 12, y = 6, rule = B36/S125
obo6bobo$o2bo4bo2bo$bo8bo$4bo2bo$bob2o2b2obo$2bobo2bobo!

Just cross-posting a ship that I don't think ever made it here.

1 TB of RAM and 8 TB of SSDs for swap. Holy crap! If you're taking requests, here are some things I would be interested in (in no particular order): Expand on the level wave speed limit searches (although it seems you may have abandoned this due to the speed of the search rather than the memory lim...

when I try and open the "qfind.exe" file, it keeps on closing after a message saying "Microsoft Defender SmartScreen prevented an unrecognized app from starting. Running this app might put your PC at risk.". I'm not familiar with this issue, so I searched for it online. You could try right-clicking...

What do I type for the name on the command window? Can you walk me through on how to do this? I suck at coding scripts. I'm assuming you're using Windows, since you didn't object when I suggested it earlier. Here are step-by-step instructions that I think should work in that case. Download the zip ...

search in soups but you scale them up so one pixel is a 2x2 block. see what you can find. scale it up to 3x3 and do the same. then, scale it to 10x10 and do the same x = 36, y = 10, rule = B3/S23 o2bo22b2o4b2o$2bo23b2o4b2o$o29b2o$2bobo25b2o$2ob2o21b2o$26b2o$30b2o2b 2o$30b2o2b2o$26b4o2b4o$26b4o2b4o!...

it seems Matthias Merzenich showed four catalysts that are equivalent to it in this post from 2014-09-13, listed as reactions by Dean Hickerson They are included in the osc folder of jslife , which is a good place to check before searching through the forums. They were found by Dean Hickerson betwe...

Is it time to move the 754P7 page to 563P7? I have a draft in my namespace ready to go. I support the move, as the 563-cell form is currently the most notable form. Nah. It is a reduction. The page was moved once before after a reduction. Another example is 54P23 , which was moved from 55P23. For t...

Two registrations, two captchas and manual verification on top of it? Are you kidding? I just wanted to fix broken link here: https://conwaylife.com/wiki/LifeWiki:Game_of_Life_Status_page "All higher periods are known": http://www.conwaylife.com/patterns/osc-p43+.rle -> http://www.conwaylife.com/pa...

570P7, likely with room for stator reduction. EDIT: Down to 566 cells by reusing stator from earlier versions of the oscillator: putting it through rstatoropt produces a 563-cell version Here's a narrower stator variant with the same minimum population found with JLS: x = 24, y = 77, rule = B3/S23 ...

…that there are four [[statorless]] {{cells|12|text=12-cell}} [[oscillators]], namely [[mazing]], [[pentadecathlon]], [[phoenix 1]] and [[figure eight]], yet there are none with 11 cells or below? The only cell count up to which all objects have been enumerated is 8. All objects that are not p6 or ...

“Every finite phoenix evolves into an oscillator” But the domino and dot do not do this? According to the wiki A phoenix is a pattern all of whose cells die in every generation, but that never dies as a whole. Since the domino and dot reach population 0, they do not qualify under this definition.

Haycat2009 wrote: ↑

May 6th, 2024, 11:13 pm

Are Elkie’s p5 and Drifty Eater 3 related? I notice the similarity.

What similarity? Can you be more specific? I can see how they have a little bit of stator in common, but as far as I can tell the similarity ends there.

is there anything stopping me from naming the L141 conduit "Lucy"? In Lucy+Fx153... Lucy/L141 I'll be a bit more explicit than previous posters. Please do not attempt to name new conduits. We have a tolerably effective systematic naming scheme for them. Even the most fundamental conduits (excluding...

Today, there has been EXTREME VANDALISM in the eater 1 page. I think that all these edits should be reverted. Vandalism is deliberate destruction or damage. The most recent edits to fishhook and Eater 1 were clearly made in good faith, so they are not vandalism. That being said, I think there shoul...

NewLifeCA #47, 30 April 2024 Brief addendum: New p7 Spaceships Period-7 spaceships are quite rare, so it's a bit of a surprise when two unrelated p7 ships are found in a short period of time. On March 21, 2024, Caleb R. Hilton found a 2c/7 orthogonal tagalong for two weekenders. Matthias Merzenich ...

It is sadly impossible to reduce the oscillator's period from 564 as a result of the Mazings used to eat the unwanted internal gliders. P6 or p3 eaters allow the period to be halved to p282: x = 74, y = 87, rule = B3/S23 37b2o$29b2ob2o2bo2bo$30bobo4bobo$29bo3b3obobob2o$29bob2o6bobo$30b2o2bo b2obo2b...

some P38 by P1GG on the forums: x = 94, y = 94, rule = B3/S23 53bo5bo$53b2o3b2o$53b2o3b2o$54bo3bo2$65b2o$64bobo$64bo$63b2o$55bobo4b o$55bo2bo3b3o$55bobo7bo$64b2o2$56bo$55b2o$51b5o2bob4o$51b3ob2o3b2obo$ 56bo4b2o5$56bo4b2o$51b3ob2o3b2obo$51b5o2bob4o$55b2o$5b2o28b2o19bo$5bo 5b2o16b2o5bo$6b3obobo16bobo...