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In LifeViewer, changing the rule from Conway's Life to B3S23 pulls up the theme menu without a button to close it (although if one clicks the button to pull up the help menu, a back button appears). I can't reproduce this. In general if it's not possible to provide a repeatable set of steps or a pa...

ENORMOUS_NAME wrote: ↑

January 2nd, 2021, 10:19 pm

run 2 gens and delete everything
click the tab thing at the bottom left
it will still say 1 alive

Fixed, thanks for reporting!

If there's a sufficiently wide (6 hd is definitely sufficient) diagonal strip* between the glider and the rest of the pattern, we can remove it. This follows from the proof of the c/4 diagonal speed limit. That will get rid of most of the gliders, but there will be occasions where two parallel glid...

bubblegum wrote: ↑

December 24th, 2020, 6:41 pm

Running a pattern in a rule with a theme with history states and then turning Rainbow on can behave somewhat strangely sometimes. (Try it on the forums, and without waypoints.)

Please post a pattern here that demonstrates the issue.

Donald K Trump wrote: ↑

December 24th, 2020, 11:49 pm

All cells disappear if the pattern is a spark, even killer cells.

Fixed, thanks!

bubblegum wrote: ↑

December 23rd, 2020, 6:30 pm

can LifeViewer have an option to turn off triangular cells too?

Yes, added in build 580. Toggle with hotkey /, or Settings->Display->Triangles. Override default (Triangles) with [[ SQUARECELLS ]] script command.

Thanks for the suggestion!

I'm confused about how to get a state to change to a different color if it's been alive for more than one generation. I tried using ALIVERAMP, but that makes it slowly change to a different color over time. I'd like any living cell which wasn't just born to immediately switch to a completely differ...

dvgrn wrote: ↑

December 19th, 2020, 12:17 pm

does KILLGLIDERS work on other rules where gliders exist

KILLGLIDERS is only processed for range 1 [R]Standard and [R]History rules.

dvgrn wrote: ↑

December 19th, 2020, 8:00 am

Is that a deliberate rough approximation for efficiency reasons?

To some extent yes. But the actual question is how do I know when it's safe to delete a glider?

I can imagine a pattern where it's an arbitrary number of generations until an "escaped" glider is caught by a faster moving spaceship.

I just found an example that doesn't As escaping glider is one that is found on the edge of the pattern bounding box ahead of any other cells in the pattern. This is true for that example - when the gliders are killed they are on the right edge of the pattern bounding box and one or two cells furth...

... a rainbow appeared. x = 50, y = 50, rule = Conway's Life:T200 3o3bobo4bobo2bo3b2o2b2obobobob2o2b5ob5o$o2bo2b2ob4o2b4o3bobo2b3o5bo3b ob2ob4obo$obo3b4obo3bo2bo2b5o2bob6o2b3o2b2ob3o$2o3bo2bob2ob4o2bo3b2o4b 2o6bob3o$o4bob4o2b7o3b2o3bo2b2obob2o3b4obobo$bobob3o3bo5b2ob3o2bobo3b 3o4b2ob2ob2o2bo$3bobo3b...

As if by magic... #N Twin Sailboat Engine #O otismo x = 49, y = 53, rule = LifeSuper 11.Q8.Q4.2W7.2W$3.2U6.3Q4.3Q4.W2.2W.2W2.W8.2U$4.U.U4.3Q4.3Q5.2W.W.W. 2W7.U.U$.U5.U19.W5.W7.U5.U$.2U3.U5.3Q2.3Q7.W5.W8.U3.2U$12.2Q4.2Q8.5W$ 2.U.U19.O4.3W4.O7.U.U$3.U19.O.O3.W.W3.O.O7.U$24.O4.3W4.O$29.3W$8.2Q 12.5O3.W...

This should be fixed. Thanks for reporting!

Stuff about strange rule with hidden internal crystal sturcture c/22o spaceship: x = 25, y = 16, rule = R2,C2,S4-7,9-12,B4,11-12,NB 7$8bob3obo$7b2obobob2o$7b3obob3o$7b2ob3ob2o$8b2o3b2o$11bo! How could I convert between a HROT rulestring and an LtL one? I would like to run this rule in Golly. Golly ...

MathAndCode wrote: ↑

December 17th, 2020, 1:28 am

I mean internal gliders. The relevant glider seems to be deleted at generation 1,528, four generations before it would have interacted with a blinker.

Please post the pattern here you are referring to.

The kill gliders function on LifeViewer apparently kills internal gliders even though it shouldn't. The glider formed at T=94 gets killed correctly because it is alone on the edge of the bounding box (in this case the left edge). If you step the pattern below one generation to T=94 you'll see a gli...

fluffykitty wrote: ↑

December 14th, 2020, 3:04 am

The clipboard would probably be more convenient.

Experimental support for this has been added. Please let me know how you get on with it. Please hard refresh your browser.

Settings->Pattern->Copy Rule will now copy current rule definition to the clipboard. Note that blank lines are removed.

yujh wrote: ↑

December 14th, 2020, 7:59 am

Is there a way to stop lv from identifying patterns?

Press "Esc" or "F6".

fluffykitty wrote: ↑

December 13th, 2020, 8:14 pm

Feature request: Button somewhere to go to the Lifewiki page for a rule used in LifeViewer (preferably the source version for easy copying).

Do you actually want to go to the LifeWiki Rule page or do you just want to copy the rule definition to the clipboard?

How about a mode that helps debug commands? In this mode, the scripts can be run line by line and displayed on the screen real-time. Specifically, the "previous step" key runs the previous line of command, and the "next step" key runs the next line of command. Which commands are you trying to debug...

A for awesome wrote: ↑

December 11th, 2020, 6:49 pm

One slight issue: LifeHistory patterns are copied as "B3/S23History" now...

Fixed, thanks for reporting!

dvgrn wrote: ↑

December 10th, 2020, 4:28 pm

bubblegum wrote: ↑

December 10th, 2020, 3:39 pm

Which build of LifeViewer automatically aliased rules when copying to clipboard for the express purpose of reliably erroring when pasting into Golly and can that not happen?

Ow, this is a grumpy and slightly cryptic bug report.

True.

However, despite the grumpy report it's still been fixed.

EvinZL wrote: ↑

December 10th, 2020, 4:32 pm

When copying, lifeviewer swaps B3/S23 for Conway's Life, making clipboard patterns unusable

Fixed, thanks.

I don't seem to be able to change any LifeSuper colors, but it works fine for other rules. Fixed, thanks. The LifeHistory colouring example only works if you manually switch the rule to LifeSuper. At the moment [R]History rules need state names for the colouring to work. I'll allow state numbers in...

dvgrn wrote: ↑

December 7th, 2020, 9:32 am

An associated minor issue: the Help for this says COLOR <0..16> R G B. The "16" doesn't seem like the right maximum value nowadays.

Fixed, thanks.

dvgrn wrote: ↑

December 7th, 2020, 9:32 am

I don't seem to be able to change any LifeSuper colors, but it works fine for other rules.

Fixed, thanks.