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by drc
October 27th, 2017, 3:27 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Thread for basic questions
Replies: 4725
Views: 1219511

Re: Thread for basic questions

How does the apgcode syntax code work? apgcode Alternatively yl111_2_3_444 are encoded so that: 111 is the amount of generations for the population plot to repeat, that's why there are yl1's in some non-b2a rules. 2 has something to do with the period of the ash 3 is the population of the ash, I do...
by drc
October 26th, 2017, 9:54 pm
Forum: Other Cellular Automata
Topic: Miscellaneous Discoveries in Other Cellular Automata
Replies: 3976
Views: 937542

Re: Miscellaneous Discoveries in Other Cellular Automata

Can this be stabilized? It would be fun to see alien switch engines, but none have appeared in apgsearch (probably due to the brittleness of this variant):

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x = 6, y = 4, rule = B3/S236e
3o$bo2bo$5bo$2bobo!
Any other transitions that leave the main switch engine engine intact?
by drc
October 26th, 2017, 7:38 pm
Forum: Other Cellular Automata
Topic: Thread For Your Unrecognised CA
Replies: 3004
Views: 1076284

Re: Thread For Your Unrecognised CA

Wanted to ntzfind this rule, but: XXXXX ~/ntzfind $ ./ntzfind-setup b3-y4ceijry5k6ci7cs2-i3-aek5cj6cn XXXXX ~/ntzfind $ gcc ntzfind.c -O3 -o ntzfind In file included from ntzfind.c:12:0: step.c: In function ‘stepcell’: step.c:2:1588: error: expected expression before ‘)’ token {giant mass of symbols...
by drc
October 26th, 2017, 6:36 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Catagolue Oddities
Replies: 769
Views: 348917

Re: Catagolue Oddities

Are there any variant rulestrings that people have typed, or might actually type, by accident in good faith, that could result in their hauls going off into an annoying separate bin somewhere? Like b3-s23 (negative but no letters afterward) or s23b3, anything along those lines? "D4 +4" was a symmet...
by drc
October 25th, 2017, 10:06 pm
Forum: Other Cellular Automata
Topic: B3-ck7e/S23-cr4q6c
Replies: 10
Views: 6487

Re: B3-ck7e/S23-cr4q6c

Mucked around with Nico Brown's search program(s) that I recently re-found in my PMs to get some oscillators: x = 96, y = 114, rule = B3-ck7e/S23-cr4q6c 10b2ob2ob2o15bo23bo$10b2ob2ob2o14b2o23b2o$31bo3bo19bo3bo$16b2o12b2o3b 2o17b2o3b2o$16b2o19bo15bo$32b2o3b2o13b2o7b2o$10b2ob2ob2o15bo28bo$10b2o b2ob2o...
by drc
October 24th, 2017, 10:27 pm
Forum: Scripts
Topic: Script request thread
Replies: 553
Views: 295137

Re: Script request thread

Can someone modify nbsearch1 to make a separate layer and save all the unique results there?
by drc
October 24th, 2017, 8:14 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Catagolue Oddities
Replies: 769
Views: 348917

Re: Catagolue Oddities

muzik wrote:Also, here's the period 68 oscillator with the lowest known period:

https://catagolue.appspot.com/census/b2 ... D2_+1/xp68
What the freaking hell? Why is that there? Spooky o.o
by drc
October 24th, 2017, 7:44 pm
Forum: Scripts
Topic: Golly scripts
Replies: 312
Views: 296879

Re: Golly scripts

Saka wrote:Can you explain script 1? I'm curious about "start"
Just enter 0, I'm pretty sure it's some sort of 'checkpoint' system.
by drc
October 23rd, 2017, 11:31 pm
Forum: Other Cellular Automata
Topic: Miscellaneous Discoveries in Other Cellular Automata
Replies: 3976
Views: 937542

Re: Miscellaneous Discoveries in Other Cellular Automata

Is this p18 in B36/S237 known?:

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x = 5, y = 5, rule = B36/S237
2b2o$4bo$obobo$o2bo$b2o!
by drc
October 23rd, 2017, 9:25 pm
Forum: Scripts
Topic: Golly scripts
Replies: 312
Views: 296879

Re: Golly scripts

Don't know where else to put these, but glider_rider shared these privately with me and allowed me to show them publicly. They find oscillators in certain symmetries: Script #1: import golly as g import math rule=g.getstring("Rule:","B3/S23") algo=g.getstring("Algorithm:","QuickLife") max_period=20 ...
by drc
October 23rd, 2017, 8:53 pm
Forum: The Sandbox
Topic: Random posts
Replies: 5930
Views: 1583116

Re: Random posts

I would like to publicly come out and apologize for any of my postings prior to around my 15th birthday (7/30/17) because they were really terrible and I cringe looking back on them. I gave the mods a hard time, especially codeholic, and they didn't really deserve it. I had a foul mouth because I th...
by drc
October 23rd, 2017, 8:28 pm
Forum: Other Cellular Automata
Topic: B2ce3-ir4a5y/S2-c3-y
Replies: 5
Views: 6505

Re: B2ce3-ir4a5y/S2-c3-y

Woah, that sawtooth is amazing! Here's a bounding box reduction: x = 42, y = 17, rule = B2ce3-ir4a5y/S2-c3-y 13bo19bo$13bo19bo$12bobo17bobo5$2bo3b3o9b3o$2o5bo2bobobobo2bo$2bo3b3o 9b3o3$37bo$38bobo$12bobo17bobo6bo$13bo19bo4bobo$13bo19bo3bo! Here's the 'weird'/2x variant, it hits 45 cells at 0,512,112...
by drc
October 23rd, 2017, 4:10 pm
Forum: The Sandbox
Topic: Random posts
Replies: 5930
Views: 1583116

Re: Random posts

what's that weird derpy looking guy with horns that replaces os with 9s
by drc
October 23rd, 2017, 11:52 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Thread for basic questions
Replies: 4725
Views: 1219511

Re: Thread for basic questions

What would it take to run a search where a glider hits 2-5 still lifes (with honey farms and fleets and bakeries, and 3/4 honey farms and 1/2 honey farms as well. No oscillators) and releases a glider and makes the debris reform but moved a bit? Kind of like HBK . Then they could be rubbed together ...
by drc
October 22nd, 2017, 10:40 pm
Forum: Other Cellular Automata
Topic: B2ce3-ir4a5y/S2-c3-y
Replies: 5
Views: 6505

Re: B2ce3-ir4a5y/S2-c3-y

1-cell reduction to the sawtooth using the 2-stage eater's 3-cell phase, instead of the 4-cell normal eater: x = 132, y = 128, rule = B2ce3-ir4a5y/S2-c3-y 84bobo$50bobo32bo$51bo33bo$51bo9$82bobobobo$48bobobobo5$82bobobobo$48b obobobo6$85bo$51bo32bobo$50bobo31bobo$50bobo31bobo$50bobo27bo4bo$51bo 4bo2...
by drc
October 22nd, 2017, 9:48 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: apgsearch v4.0
Replies: 525
Views: 271832

Re: apgsearch v4.0

mniemiec wrote:"x would take infeasibly long to brute-force separate"
The problem with that is that some rules have lots of those error messages (B2ce3ai/S1c23-a, Movostill 2, etc.), so I feel like it may cause problems searching those rules, any ideas on how to add an option to disable this?
by drc
October 22nd, 2017, 3:48 pm
Forum: The Sandbox
Topic: Random posts
Replies: 5930
Views: 1583116

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by drc
October 22nd, 2017, 3:17 pm
Forum: Other Cellular Automata
Topic: Thread For Your Unrecognised CA
Replies: 3004
Views: 1076284

Re: Thread For Your Unrecognised CA

AbhpzTa wrote:@drc
New thread?
if you would like
by drc
October 21st, 2017, 8:59 pm
Forum: Patterns
Topic: Oscillator Discussion Thread
Replies: 4445
Views: 1670098

Re: Oscillator Discussion Thread

Here's a gun: x=35, y=38 4b2o$5bo$5bobo$6b2o2b2o$10b2o7$o$3o7b2o$3bo6bobo$2bobo7bo$2b2o6bobo$10b2o$2b 2o$2bo$3b3o$5bo$8b2o$9bo$6b3o14b3o$6bo15bo3bo$21bo5bo$13b2o6bo5bo$13b2o6b 3ob3o$31b2o$31bobo$12b2o19bo$13bo19b2o$10b3o16b2o$10bo13bo4bo$23bobobobo$22b ob2ob2o$22bo$21b2o! Edit: slightly smaller sta...
by drc
October 21st, 2017, 5:11 pm
Forum: Other Cellular Automata
Topic: B2ce3-ir4a5y/S2-c3-y
Replies: 5
Views: 6505

B2ce3-ir4a5y/S2-c3-y

(Sorry for all the threads lately >.< I just think this rule is cool.) B2ce3-ir4a5y/S2-c3-y is pretty interesting. It has a failed replicator that turns into two spaceships and a p2 oscillator: x = 5, y = 3, rule = B2ce3-ir4a5y/S2-c3-y b3o$o3bo$b3o! (Make sure to scroll down for one of my new proude...
by drc
October 21st, 2017, 9:46 am
Forum: The Sandbox
Topic: Random posts
Replies: 5930
Views: 1583116

Re: Random posts

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by drc
October 20th, 2017, 12:16 pm
Forum: The Sandbox
Topic: Cool apgcodes
Replies: 95
Views: 49445

Re: Cool apgcodes

by drc
October 20th, 2017, 10:17 am
Forum: Other Cellular Automata
Topic: apgsearch - haul requests
Replies: 677
Views: 311219

Re: apgsearch - haul requests

Can't post a pattern collection at the moment,but B2ce3-ir4a5y/S2-c3-y is really cool. It has all sorts of wonky spaceships of several velocities, weird oscillators, and a p48 failed replicator that turns into two sparky spaceships. There's also a p24 gun I made out of p2 conduits and said failed re...
by drc
October 19th, 2017, 8:35 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: apgsearch v4.0
Replies: 525
Views: 271832

Re: apgsearch v4.0

What is this 'magic sauce?': $ ./recompile.sh --rule b2ce3-ir4a5ys2-c3-y --symmetry C1 Skipping updates; use --update to update apgluxe automatically. Not a git repository; skipping updates... Configuring rule b2ce3-ir4a5ys2-c3-y; symmetry C1 Compressing 512-bit lookup table for rule b2ce3-ir4a5ys2-...
by drc
October 19th, 2017, 5:16 pm
Forum: Other Cellular Automata
Topic: Thread For Your Unrecognised CA
Replies: 3004
Views: 1076284

Re: Thread For Your Unrecognised CA

The p52 I posted is adjustable: p52+14n (n>=0) x = 35, y = 33, rule = B3-ck7e/S23-cr4q6c 6bo$2o3b2o11b2o$2o4bo11b2o8$6bo8bo$2o3b2o7bobo6b2o$2o4bo8bo7b2o8$6bo8b o4bo$2o3b2o7bobo2bobo6b2o$2o4bo8bo4bo7b2o8$6bo8bo4bo4bo$2o3b2o7bobo2bo bo2bobo6b2o$2o4bo8bo4bo4bo7b2o! We can make almost a p52+14n gun: x ...