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All results from these test symmetries should be taken ''cum grano salis''; my modifications of the apgsearch | All results from these test symmetries should be taken ''cum grano salis''; my modifications of the apgsearch script may contain bugs both subtle and embarassing. ''Caveat lector.'' | ||
===My [[Catagolue]] statistics === | ===My [[Catagolue]] statistics === | ||
Revision as of 13:13, 9 August 2017
I like the smell of a westerly breeze
But even more than all of these
I like to be on —
Horseback.
Howdy, I'm Apple Bottom.
I'm fascinated by cellular automata, though I'd hesitate to call myself a Life enthusiast. My favorite outer-totalistic rules (other than Life itself) are Day & Night (B3678/S34678), B367/S3567 (which has a family of natural period-24 spaceships, as well as a period-800 ship) and B378/S3567 (which has a large variety of natural and semi-natural spaceships of different periods, including a smoking period 274 ship). On the non-totalistic side, I like B2e3ai4arw5678/S3-an4ar5i678 (SlugWorld), a rule that has a vast number of natural and semi-natural spaceships of different periods.
I'm a contributor to Calcyman's Catagolue, and the second biggest contributor to B3/S23/C1, with 17.6+ trillion objects contributed to B3/S23 (12.0+ trillion to C1; 5.6+ trillion to higher symmetries). I'm an occasional (and sometimes prolific) LifeWiki editor, as well as an administrator. I helped alpha-test apgmera 3.x, and tweaked the final version in minor ways to better suit my needs (current patch: 3.28-ab7). I wrote a Catagolue browser extension for Opera, and helped Simon Ekström compute the number of 29- and 30-bit strict/pseudo still lifes. Occasionally I write other bits of Life-related code, but they're largely unreleased. The only notable pattern I've found is the pony express, the first natural puffer other than the two switch engines.
I try to make sure the LifeWiki doesn't fall into disrepair, though I wish this weren't necessary: I prefer adding new material to mopping up after others. I tend to edit in bursts; life has a way of getting in the way of Life. Bear with me if I don't get back to you immediately.
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In addition to on here you can find me on the ConwayLife.com forums as Apple Bottom, on Catagolue as Apple Bottom, on Twitter as @_AppleBottom_, on the Internet Archive as @apple_bottom and on Github as AppleBottom.
If you want to get in touch, sending me a mention on Twitter's the best way to do so.Catagolue
I occasionally submit to certain test symmetries on Catagolue; these are all prefixed with AB_ (for Apple Bottom) and suffixed with _Test. Right now, they are:
| Name | Soup size | Density | Hash function | Version |
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| Notes | ||||
| AB_256x256_Test | 256×256 | 25% | SHA-256 | apgsearch 0.54+0.31i-ab1 |
| Obtained by generating a regular 16×16 soup and then computing its Kronecker product with itself. | ||||
| AB_sha512_16x32_Test | 16×32 | 50% | SHA-512 | apgsearch 0.54+0.31i-ab2 |
| AB_sha512_20x20_Test | 20×20 | 50% | SHA-512 | apgsearch 0.54+0.31i-ab3 |
| Intended to produce results comparable to Nathaniel Johnston's Online Life-Like CA Soup Search. | ||||
All results from these test symmetries should be taken cum grano salis; my modifications of the apgsearch script may contain bugs both subtle and embarassing. Caveat lector.
My Catagolue statistics
| Prefix | Distinct objects discovered | Score |
|---|---|---|
| xp2 | 450 | 207.57 |
| xp3 | 72 | 35.04 |
| xp4 | 6 | 2.56 |
| xp5 | 1 | 0.17 |
| xp6 | 2 | 0.37 |
| xp15 | 5 | 1.92 |
| xp24 | 2 | 1.23 |
| xp30 | 8 | 5.57 |
| xp46 | 2 | 0.45 |
| xq4 | 18 | 8.74 |
| xs14 | 1 | 1.00 |
| xs19 | 2 | 2.00 |
| xs21 | 3 | 2.53 |
| xs22 | 2 | 2.00 |
| xs24 | 1 | 1.00 |
| xs25 | 1 | 1.00 |
| xs26 | 1 | 1.00 |
| xs30 | 96 | 58.47 |
| xs31 | 48 | 35.34 |
| xs32 | 34 | 20.98 |
| xs33 | 11 | 7.29 |
| xs34 | 15 | 8.25 |
| xs35 | 3 | 2.50 |
| xs36 | 6 | 3.02 |
| xs37 | 1 | 1.00 |
| xs38 | 1 | 0.50 |
| xs39 | 1 | 1.00 |
| xs42 | 1 | 0.06 |
| yl144 | 1 | 1.00 |
| yl1152 | 2 | 2.00 |
| Total | 797 | 415.56 |
(Scoring method: harmonic.)
My LifeWiki contributions
— Socrates
Apple Bot
User:Apple Bot is my bot. It's not currently used for anything, primarily because the Perl modules keep getting broken by changes to the MediaWiki API. (It isn't because I'm lazy, nosiree.)
Subpages
User:Apple Bottom/Catagolue(incomplete, outdated, not updated)- User:Apple Bottom/Bibliography (list of books and articles, highly incomplete)
- User:Apple Bottom/Day & Night (some interesting Day & Night patterns)
- User:Apple Bottom/TODO
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