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by rowett
Yesterday, 2:24 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Thread for Discord crossposts
Replies: 13
Views: 1229

Re: Thread for Discord crossposts

confocaloid wrote:
Yesterday, 2:03 pm
Seems like it still doesn't work. Maybe the cause is missing commas in the actual rules? (e.g. "0 1,1,2,3,0,0,0,0 6")
You'll need to hard refresh your browser.
by rowett
Yesterday, 1:58 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Thread for Discord crossposts
Replies: 13
Views: 1229

Re: Thread for Discord crossposts

Wow -- but somehow Golly managed to use that version of the rule without complaining. I'm tempted to go look at Golly's parsing code and see how it manages that, but that would be a lot more than 15 minutes of my life that I wouldn't get back. In for a penny... Golly's parser gets the final token i...
by rowett
Yesterday, 1:14 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Thread for Discord crossposts
Replies: 13
Views: 1229

Re: Thread for Discord crossposts

I'm drawing a blank on why LifeViewer is giving an "unsupported rule name" error, since the rule is definitely out there in the LifeWiki Rule namespace It's because there's an error in the rule definition. The following line ends with a ) rather than a }. That's 15 minutes of my life I'm not gettin...
by rowett
Yesterday, 4:35 am
Forum: Website Discussion
Topic: Pattern viewer for forum threads
Replies: 3383
Views: 835366

Re: Pattern viewer for forum threads

I've noticed recently that when pressing the Graph button, there's a good chance the graph won't show up. Going back into the settings menu highlights the graph button as though it were indeed present, and you need to click it and go back into settings a third time and click Graph yet once more to ...
by rowett
Yesterday, 4:33 am
Forum: Scripts
Topic: safeopenclip.lua usability issues
Replies: 29
Views: 423

Re: safeopenclip.lua usability issues

I've just commited an update to safeopenclip.lua for community testing. Changes in this version: Better supports bounded grids. Will detect and remove invalid bounded grid definitions if requested. Will open a Golly Help window if an unsuported rule is found with a link to download and install the r...
by rowett
March 25th, 2024, 11:58 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Golly 4.3b1
Replies: 29
Views: 956

Re: Golly 4.3b1

When setting the rule to a Hensel notation rulestring including the same digit twice in the same section of the rule, but with one followed by an inverted letter string and one by a non-inverted letter string, the rule that the algorithm follows is different from the rule that the canonicalized rul...
by rowett
March 25th, 2024, 7:48 am
Forum: Scripts
Topic: safeopenclip.lua usability issues
Replies: 29
Views: 423

Re: safeopenclip.lua usability issues

This is deliberate. If there is an error in the bounded grid definition and it's carried across to the safe rule then the pattern still won't open. What do you think of the two-stage approach? Try opening the safe rule with the bounded-grid suffix, and then if that doesn't work, try the safe rule w...
by rowett
March 25th, 2024, 7:01 am
Forum: Scripts
Topic: safeopenclip.lua usability issues
Replies: 29
Views: 423

Re: safeopenclip.lua usability issues

When Chris wrote the safeopenclip.lua script, he chose an "x = 1, y = 1, rule = Display256" header line for the "safe" RLE. Maybe when bounded grids are involved, that's not entirely safe after all? Have to do a bit more experimenting here. It's not clear yet what if anything we can reasonably do a...
by rowett
March 22nd, 2024, 5:34 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: [Rule]Investigator support in Golly
Replies: 47
Views: 3496

Re: [Rule]Investigator support in Golly

confocaloid wrote:
March 22nd, 2024, 3:52 pm
Suggestion: when the rule is changed from what was specified in the RLE, add the old rulename/rulestring in an additional autogenerated pattern comment line.
Done. Thanks for the suggestion!

EDIT by dvgrn: Moved a series of follow-up posts to a new discussion thread.
by rowett
March 21st, 2024, 1:36 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Golly suggestions
Replies: 416
Views: 202222

Re: Golly suggestions

confocaloid wrote:
March 21st, 2024, 12:18 pm
Comments should be preserved in both cases.
This should be fixed now. Thanks for reporting!
by rowett
March 20th, 2024, 9:29 am
Forum: LifeWiki Discussion
Topic: Suggested LifeWiki edits
Replies: 861
Views: 176517

Re: Suggested LifeWiki edits

There are several rules (2 empty, 9 invalid) in the Rule: namespace that have issues. See the report below: LifeViewer rule repository update CPU Threads 32 CPU Time (sec) 300 Download Batch 10 Timeout History 14 Validate Only 0 Downloading rule list from LifeWiki Rule namespace: Page 1 (-lbs4c to B...
by rowett
March 18th, 2024, 4:16 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: [Rule]Investigator support in Golly
Replies: 47
Views: 3496

Re: [Rule]Investigator support in Golly

#C A long-lived pattern. Eventual period unknown. #C Ran oscar.lua for ~15M ticks without detecting periodicity x = 16, y = 17, rule = B3/S023Investigator:T41,19 A6.4A2.3A$A.A2.3A.A2.4A$3A3.5A3.A$4.A.2A.2A.A.A$.A2.A.2A2.3A.2A$6.A$ 5.A.5A.A$A.3A2.2A4.3A$.A2.A.A3.A.2A$A4.3A.A2.3A$2A.3A3.A4.2A$2A.2A.2...
by rowett
March 18th, 2024, 11:46 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: [Rule]Investigator support in Golly
Replies: 47
Views: 3496

Re: [Rule]Investigator support in Golly

confocaloid wrote:
March 18th, 2024, 11:37 am
In Golly's help (Help/Algorithms/Super), I believe names of cellstates #8 and #9 should be exchanged.
This is fixed now. Thanks for reporting!
by rowett
March 18th, 2024, 10:55 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: [Rule]Investigator support in Golly
Replies: 47
Views: 3496

Re: [Rule]Investigator support in Golly

I've updated the patterns in the attached zip file so they use the canonical rule name "LifeInvestigator" rather than "StateInvestigator".
by rowett
March 17th, 2024, 3:40 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Golly 4.3b1
Replies: 29
Views: 956

Re: Golly 4.3b1

confocaloid wrote:
March 17th, 2024, 2:59 pm
I think there is now a slight difference between accepted syntax of outer-totalistic rulestrings and accepted syntax of rulestrings written using Hensel notation.
This should be fixed now. Thanks for reporting!
by rowett
March 17th, 2024, 2:58 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: [Rule]Investigator support in Golly
Replies: 47
Views: 3496

Re: [Rule]Investigator support in Golly

It seems like specifications of different topologies cause conversion to Display256 instead. This should be fixed now. Thanks for reporting! One issue here is that Golly 4.3b1 displays the most explored [R]Investigator rule under the name "LifeInvestigator" (including the rulestring shown in the Se...
by rowett
March 17th, 2024, 1:50 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: [Rule]Investigator support in Golly
Replies: 47
Views: 3496

Re: [Rule]Investigator support in Golly

confocaloid wrote:
March 17th, 2024, 1:21 pm
safeopenclip.lua does not seem to handle pattern comments.
This should be fixed now. Thanks for reporting!
by rowett
March 17th, 2024, 12:49 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: [Rule]Investigator support in Golly
Replies: 47
Views: 3496

Re: [Rule]Investigator support in Golly

How about bundling Rule:StateInvestigator as a file in the "Rules" folder, so that the many existing patterns can be simply opened directly (either with File/Open, Ctrl+O or Alt+O) without changing the rulename? I tried pasting patterns from the linked collection into Golly 4.3b1 using the script s...
by rowett
March 14th, 2024, 6:00 pm
Forum: Website Discussion
Topic: Pattern viewer for forum threads
Replies: 3383
Views: 835366

Re: Pattern viewer for forum threads

muzik wrote:
March 13th, 2024, 1:55 pm
I've also noticed that, with this specific viewer embed size, menus such as the Pattern menu have the buttons intersecting the title.
Fixed, thanks!
by rowett
March 14th, 2024, 5:32 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: [Rule]Investigator support in Golly
Replies: 47
Views: 3496

Re: [Rule]Investigator support in Golly

dvgrn wrote:
March 14th, 2024, 4:48 pm
I did check in a "Display256" rule that matches Golly's default non-gradient color scheme. I think one of your Lua-script updates adopted that as the rule name to switch to.
Ah I missed that - many thanks. I've checked in the Alt-O default key binding. Good luck with the contractors!
by rowett
March 14th, 2024, 3:59 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: [Rule]Investigator support in Golly
Replies: 47
Views: 3496

Re: [Rule]Investigator support in Golly

Last but not least, do we maybe need to add a "toInvestigator.lua" conversion script to go along with toStandard, toHistory, and toSuper? Shortcut key Alt+I, maybe? So probably an update will be needed at least to the toStandard.lua script. Dave are you planning these updates for the upcoming 4.3 G...
by rowett
March 14th, 2024, 12:31 pm
Forum: Website Discussion
Topic: Pattern viewer for forum threads
Replies: 3383
Views: 835366

Re: Pattern viewer for forum threads

On Catagolue synthesis pages, using Save Pattern puts a bunch of stuff near the top on the same line, where it previously was on different lines. This includes the size and rule parameters of the RLE. Is this intended? It's not a LifeViewer issue. The HTML element that is being used to show the RLE...
by rowett
March 14th, 2024, 11:46 am
Forum: Website Discussion
Topic: Pattern viewer for forum threads
Replies: 3383
Views: 835366

Re: Pattern viewer for forum threads

muzik wrote:
March 8th, 2024, 12:27 am
Is it at all possible to improve zoomed-out hexagonal rule rendering as to better preserve perceived symmetry?
No.
by rowett
March 14th, 2024, 11:44 am
Forum: Bugs & Errors
Topic: lifeviewer bug
Replies: 365
Views: 50026

Re: lifeviewer bug

(I don't know it there's a more appropriate thread for this, so I posted it here) Saw this while browsing the forum: Screenshot 2024-03-07 130542.png Please post a link to the pattern. Does it always happen? What error is provided if you click on "SHOW PATTERN ERROR"? I don't know if this is the sa...
by rowett
March 14th, 2024, 11:43 am
Forum: Bugs & Errors
Topic: lifeviewer bug
Replies: 365
Views: 50026

Re: lifeviewer bug

In this case would it also be possible for the Golly Theme to display 2-state higher-range patterns in the same way (yellow instead of white)? Yes, done. The Golly theme for higher-range rules also appears to be leaving a trail of history cells behind now, which is not the case in the actual progra...