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Since it's not clear as to when it'll stop without prior knowledge: can Identify be made to show a progress bar (similar to the T button with scripts) that fills up to 1048576, or alternatively/additionally specify "nothing found after 1048576 generations" after such a failed attempt?

v0.0.11 is now live: - rulestring generation should now always produce the canonical form - a link to Catagolue is also generated alongside the rulestring - detection of the presence of transitions is now more efficient Again, don't think I've implemented any of this optimally. Keep in mind that thi...

If I'm allowed to nitpick: x = 31, y = 32, rule = B3/S23 2o$2o$o12$12bo$10bobo$11b2o13$29b2o$29b2o$29bo! [[ KILLGLIDERS AUTOSTART STOP 3 ]] something illogical can be seen to happen in generation 4: a primordial dead cell immediately becomes a freshly dead cell, which is something that can obviously...

I've updated this to v0.0.3 and rulestrings are now added to a text box rather than displayed directly on the page horribly. The code to do it is still a mess, though, and I welcome advice from anyone who actually knows what they're doing.

x = 10, y = 8, rule = none 3.G.C$2.HJDEBA$.I3J2EBA$.JMOMHG2BA$K2MPGAEBA$.L2.O3A$O$.P! - Is the "none" rule supposed to be playable? - Is drawing supposed to be disabled for it? I see no reason why it should be since select support is still allowed and permits changes to the pattern. - When the sele...

Is it just me or are the images significantly offset to the side here?
https://catagolue.appspot.com/census/b2s34h/D12/xp10

Since I've decided it's probably time to start giving back to the community rather than constantly demanding from it, here's a disgustingly rudimentary rulestring generator for the common INT rulespace: https://muzikbike.github.io/projects/ca/rulegen/isonontot-moore.html This was mainly done as a pr...

A couple other things I'd like to mention: - The nothing loading issue for rules also appears to happen for pattern files. - Could the text box used for defining the rule be changed to another type of text box which autocorrect cannot interact with? On countless occasions I've had transitions and ru...

x = 3017, y = 15, rule = B3/S23 2bo$obo$b2o8$7b2o45b2o45b2o45b2o45b2o45b2o45b2o45b2o45b2o45b2o45b2o45b 2o45b2o45b2o45b2o45b2o45b2o45b2o45b2o45b2o45b2o45b2o45b2o45b2o45b2o45b 2o45b2o45b2o45b2o45b2o45b2o45b2o45b2o45b2o45b2o45b2o45b2o45b2o45b2o45b 2o45b2o45b2o45b2o45b2o45b2o45b2o45b2o45b2o45b2o45b2o45...

Random natural LWSS:

x = 238, y = 203, rule = B3/S23 13$212bo$211bo$211b3o$206bo$205bo$199bo5b3o$197b2o$198b2o4$196bo$194b 2o$195b2o6$193bo$193bobo$193b2o$187bo$187bobo$179bobo5b2o$179b2o$180bo 4$176bobo$176b2o$177bo5$175bo$174bo$174b3o$169bo$168bo$162bo5b3o$160b 2o$161b2o4$159bo$157b2o$158b2o6$156bo$156bobo$156b2o$150...

x = 1023, y = 545, rule = B3/S23 16$1010bo$1009bo$1009b3o6$986bo$986bobo$986b2o10bo$996b2o$997b2o$986bo $985bo$985b3o6$962bo$962bobo$962b2o10bo$972b2o$973b2o$962bo$961bo$961b 3o6$938bo$938bobo$938b2o10bo$948b2o$949b2o$938bo$937bo$937b3o6$914bo$ 914bobo$914b2o10bo$924b2o$925b2o$914bo$913bo$913b3o6$8...

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Awful Introduction Section that you can probably skip The majority of cellular automata explored today take place on the square grid {4,4}. Without a doubt due to its ease to draw and picture, it was used for the founding rules which went on to shape the modern cellular automata community. More rec...

...and while setting up a visual example for the above post I seem to have come across a bug where hexagonal patterns are loaded at completely unexpected position: x = 1, y = 1, rule = B/S o! [[ VIEWONLY X 15 ZOOM 16 GRID GRIDMAJOR 0 THEME 6 COLOR ARROW 0 192 0 ARROW 0 0 32 0 10 ]] x = 1, y = 1, rul...

While rotations and mod calculation and such for hex and triangular grids are nowhere near priority at this point, implementing direction calculation for Identify should be a pretty simple task. Here's a relatively in-depth examination of how directions can be defined for said grids (which should al...

x = 43, y = 48, rule = B24/S02H 10$6b2o3b2o$5bo8bo$7b2o3b2o$3bo3bo6bo3bo$2bo17bo$2bob2o12b2obo$4bo15bo 3$2bo22bo$2bobo19bobo$4bo20bo$3bobo19bobo4$5bobo19bobo$7bo20bo$6bobo 19bobo$7bo22bo3$12bo15bo$11bob2o12b2obo$12bo17bo$14bo3bo6bo3bo$19b2o3b 2o$18bo8bo$20b2o3b2o! x = 35, y = 12, rule = R1,C0,S,B1,...

If the absence of the transition would result in diagonal line oscillators not working, then it has to be added (and follow the expected rules). Which state do you pick for it to transition to though? By checking what the next generation should look like, as each generation of such an oscillator sh...

Most of that is pretty much undefined since I'm currently only interested in simulating single diagonal line oscillators, and I only define those which are integral to the functioning of those. Okay then. How do you decide the important ones? If the absence of the transition would result in diagona...

Partly as a convenience thing, and partly as a throwback to the earlier days of the site when browsers still supported Java. My idea here would be to convert the main conwaylife.com page to be a large embed of LifeViewer, much larger than the default popup windows and embeds usually seen in forum po...

The Home/LifeWiki/Forums/Download Golly bar to be specific.

Given that it sees very heavy use by the conwaylife.com populace and it being a honorary replacement for our very own TOLLCASS I'd say a link there is deserved.

Something weird is going on here, not sure if the viewer is at fault or if it's catagolue: https://catagolue.appspot.com/object/xp32_y1g2sszy111_gsuvufsz25801_086m68z05_g84fk18z2x1_gos6e7kz01_0421ifs/g17b3s23 EDIT: definitely seems to be a Catagolue thing as the RLE is the thing that's flawed: x = 9...

How do you construct these rules? Notepad++ and a lot of trial and error. How do you decide what happens when 3 or more cells meet? Most of that is pretty much undefined since I'm currently only interested in simulating single diagonal line oscillators, and I only define those which are integral to...

Editing .rule files doesn't seem to work? All I get is a white screen. What model iPad are you using? Editing works fine in the two simulators I've tested (an iPad Air 4th gen, and an iPad Pro 11in 2nd gen) but I can't test Golly on my old iPad thanks to Apple's unwillingness to support backward co...

Here's another example of a long-standing bug that affects the viewer. This is another case which I can't seem to get to happen consistently, but the most important part is that it does indeed seem to affect desktop platforms as well. Discussion over in the discord reveals that there are others who ...