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[...] Most people aren't computer nerds, using apgcodes in articles will only lift the threshold for people to read through an article. [...]


I don't know whether you are planning to actively participate in setting up / maintaining a local community of people interested in CGoL/CA.

In that ...

That's incorrect. The apgcode (and any other Extended Wechsler Format Canonical Form based encoding) is, by definition, the same for all orientations and phases.


My bad.

(Work with such encodings enough, and you can start to see them in just that way.)

I think you didn't get my point. Most ...

Apparently closely related discussion: https://conwaylife.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=2333 "Help with names"


[...] (e.g. what should "beehive at beehive" be translated into?) [...]


For objects that have an apgcode in particular, I'd suggest to stick to apgcodes for a while (even ...

The wiki is still supposed to be mostly focused on CGoL and closely related topics.
However, there is now a separate namespace (OCA:) for non-CGoL topics.


There always is. But there were objections to clutter the OCA namespace with your own rules, anyway, at least I thought there were.

In any ...

When trying to translate some articles into Chinese, I noticed the fact that many terms does not have a common translation, (e.g. what should "beehive at beehive" be translated into?) This makes it hard to introduce CA to Chinese people interested in CA.

Since there are quite a few Chinese users on ...

[...] Also: you should've quote me.


[...] Should these status pages be moved from their respective userspaces to subpages of their subject rules? [...]


Only if the initial contributor(s) explicitly agree to the idea. Some userpages may not be up-to-date. Some userpages may go against ...

soup makes a long-3(?) canoe
x = 16, y = 16, rule = B2n3/S23-q
4o2b2o3bob3o$3b3obob3o2b2o$ob3o3b2o2b2obo$2o2b3ob2o4bo$7ob2o2b2o$bob5o
b3o3bo$b2o2bobo2bob4o$4obo2bo4b3o$3o2bob4obobo$o3b2o4bobo$3obo3b2ob2o
2bo$2b2obo2bo4b2o$3bo2b2o3bob2o$2bob2o2b2ob3obo$o2b2obo2b2o3bo$ob3o2b2ob6o!

Long^2. A ...

That table could not have been accurate at any given point in time. It's not just outdated; it's wrong. Mathematics hasn't changed over the last four years; there was never a time in the past where you could make a trivial oscillator of a prime power period.


I didn't claim it was correct; I ...

Oscillator periods

For green status, an oscillator must have a cell that oscillates at the full period, rather than some smaller factor of that period. One such cell is sufficient.

Yellow means that the only known examples contain no cells that oscillate at the full period.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 ...

Oh, I forgot, we're also missing the long^3 snake.


No:

#N 9xs.rle: Extra long snake: Synthesis
#O Mark D. Niemiec's life synthesis database, Sat Jul 18 19:34:45 2020
#C OO.....
#C O.O....
#C ...O...
#C ....O.O
#C .....OO
x = 195, y = 76
117bobbo$115bobobbobo$116boobboo3$8bo74bo17bx19bo ...

I believe we have gone through all SLs up to 11 cells already in Niemiec's database. In Niemiec's database, I found these:

snip

snip

Where is this database? I can't find it on Niemiec's site.


I think it's not yet public; I personally got it from an email. Probably partly because I'm ...

A list is being made on the wiki here . Up to 10 bits we're missing long snake and broken snake (as well as a few with long snake as an intermediate step), I haven't yet gone through the 11s because some of them require those missing ones. I'm guessing Niemiec has these?

Found these syntheses ...

Let's do this!
Have a good day!

BokaBB


This doesn't implement the exact CA described, but I think it simulates most of the behaviours described in OP.

https://ncase.me/sim/?lz ...

squareroot12621 wrote: December 14th, 2022, 10:14 am

Hunting wrote: December 14th, 2022, 8:57 am There is an online collabrative paintboard thing on a site, and I'm trying to draw something for the GoL/CA community. However, I don't know what to draw. Any suggestions?

What I'm drawing now is an inflated glider

Draw the four standard spaceships.

I will

There is an online collabrative paintboard thing on a site, and I'm trying to draw something for the GoL/CA community. However, I don't know what to draw. Any suggestions?

What I'm drawing now is an inflated glider

I probably should've return with a positive result, but I failed to do so.


Apparently, I did. Here is a new c/6o AFAIK (I've forgotten most of the LeapLife status now though)

x = 18, y = 24, rule = B2n3/S23-q
3b3o6b3o$6b2o2b2o$2bo2bo6bo2bo$b2o12b2o$b3obo6bob3o$6bo4bo$6bo4bo$2b2o
b2ob2ob2ob2o ...

On a different note, I wrote a script to census the common evolutionary sequences, which is one of the scripts I always wanted to finish. (This was popular when I left, not sure if it still is.) The result is shown below:

x = 861, y = 62, rule = B2n3/S23-q
154bo$154bo$153bobo449b2o245b3o ...

Long time no see. I've been apgsearching b2n3s23-q/D8_4 a while ago, and running qfind on LeapLife recently (for the latter, see User:Ultimium/LeapLife_Spaceship_Search_Status_Page ), behind the scenes.

Here's the longest partial for width-17 odd-symmetric c/7:

x = 17, y = 138, rule = B2n3/S23-q ...

#01 ***
#02 ***
#03 *
#04 **
#06 ***
#07 *
#09 *
#10 ***
#11 *
#12 **

I apologies for telling others what to do, but during the time I was not here, I was saving catagolue LeapLife C1 textcensus roughly daily (since 5/8/2021) and calling attribute for every discovery to avoid the loss of attribute info. I'm going to travel where I will not be able to use computer and ...

Goodbye. IDK how will the forum react to this. Happy, maybe? Even if I don't see any significant number of LeapLife advertising. Or maybe moderators will lock this thread because it contributes nothing to CA or the community.

I did not know one day I'll leave the forums, when I started rulegolfing ...

wwei47 wrote: March 26th, 2021, 7:44 am

Hunting wrote: March 26th, 2021, 7:40 am Very close, very close. I'm sure you'll get it with this final hint: It is not the bottleneck in LeapLife, but it is the bottleneck in CGoL.

H'?

Nope. Okay, Dead giveaway: It is found in a pattern in LeapLife. That pattern's name is 4 letters.

wickstrecher

also theres an xor signal inside the wick

wwei47 wrote: March 26th, 2021, 7:34 am

Hunting wrote: March 26th, 2021, 7:32 am More hint: MathAndCode referred to it with a word appended. bubblegum once ranted him of that word.

Pi?

Very close, very close. I'm sure you'll get it with this final hint: It is not the bottleneck in LeapLife, but it is the bottleneck in CGoL.

wwei47 wrote: March 26th, 2021, 7:14 am dr?
Sparkers?
Glider?
XWSSes?

It's a pattern.

More hint: MathAndCode referred to it with a word appended. bubblegum once ranted him of that word.