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Unfortunately this rake works out to be an R4L9F, so this is spectacularly non-useful (because a rephaser plus a regular forerake is an R2L9F, much simpler and less than half as expensive). The R2L16 is firing on lane (16 + 2*9) mod 31 = 3, and the kickback bumps it up +6 lanes, which is very close...

Continuing on with the idea of adding extra backrakes at the front in order to save time later on: 3 backrakes in front, even before the double rake then double rake with 4 backrakes inside it, aligned to lane 7, we have 7R to work with 4B + R3L28 (hits lane 0, aligned to lane 3, now have 4R to work...

I just wanted to point out that we can fit at least 4 back rakes within the "diamond" that comes before the double forward rake at the beginning. These would be essentially for free. I wanted to use this location to produce the back rakes in point 2 of my previous post but using them for kickbacks ...

Apologies for the double post. Here is an updated optimal lane rake table, taking into account the fact that we can do double kickbacks via backward rakes farther up in the silverfish (2 backrakes/rephasers per double kickback). Note that some of the double kickback via backrake entries here are sub...

Taking the double kickback idea into account, here is a new table of optimal rakes for each lane. It makes use of the following new rakes: R4L8 = R2L23 + double kickback R5L13 = R3L28 + double kickback R7L29 = R3L28 + two double kickbacks No other double kickback rakes are helpful here, as far as I ...

Here is a table of the shortest way of putting a glider on a particular lane (starting from lane 0), now that we have R3L28: Lane: Rake 0: R1L0 1: R2L23 + 1 rephaser 2: R3L28 + 4 rephasers 3: R2L25 + 1 rephaser 4: R6L17 + 2 rephasers 5: R1L0 + 4 rephasers 6: R3L28 + 1 7: R3L28 + 8 rephasers 8: R2L25...

Do admins have the right to delete spam user accounts? I can delete spam users, but won't do so unless it's 100% clear that they're spam users (so I won't do so without looking into them myself). As dvgrn mentioned, this is completely irreversible. For example, I won't delete 2thumbsup unless there...

Ian07 wrote: ↑

April 15th, 2020, 10:37 pm

Awesome! Only issue is by default it leads to the "no rule specified" page; is there an option to default the rule parameter to b3s23?

Done! It now defaults to b3s23 if no rule is specified.

Nice! Funny - I remember suggesting this or something similar some time ago ( link ) but got no response. Also, yet another suggestion, what about [catagolue=b34s34]xp0_example[/catagolue] would lead to the page for the apgcode in the specified rule? Ah sorry about that -- it's admittedly a bit of ...

Done! Test: xp15_4r4z4r4

There's a button on the posting page for this now too (just like for the viewer and wiki tags).

If anyone would like to dig up or invent a less amateur-looking font for a digitprinter, please post it here. Can be fixed-width or proportional, doesn't matter, and it doesn't have to be 15x19 -- any size in that general vicinity would be fine. The main thing is that when the pixels are printed di...

@Nathaniel, are you planning another post with details on your e, sqrt(2), etc., calculators? Sure! I'll leave the details to the textbook (since they're long), but here are the e = 2.7182... and sqrt(2) = 1.4142... calculators themselves: e_calculator.mc sqrt2_calculator.mc The e calculator is muc...

The "prime_printer.mc" pattern attached to this post is a pattern that prints out the sequence of prime numbers (in decimal), separated by dots. Here is the start of its output: x = 7137, y = 7233, rule = B3/S23 98$485b2o126b2o$485b2o126b2o63$421b2o126b2o126b2o$421b2o126b2o126b2o 63$485b2o126b2o126b...

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34-bit still life counts: Strict: 35422864104 Pseudo: 41058173683 Pseudo still life results of interest include: - Gabriel Nivasch's 34-bit Quad pseudo still life is unique (i.e., there is no other 34-bit pseudo still life that can be partitioned into 4 stable pieces, but not 2 or 3). - There are ex...

Luckily the discussion topic I linked to in the first post in this thread suggests running a repopulation script which may fix the issue with page moving by bringing all the old revisions to be fully compatible with the newer version of MediaWiki: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:PopulateRevis...

Ah yeah, the DynamicPageList functionality of MediaWiki changed considerably with recent versions, and I'm not sure how to get it to do what we want there anymore. Unfortunately I think the cleanest solution at this point is to empty out that template so that it doesn't display anything at all (it u...

Yoshi wrote: ↑

November 13th, 2019, 12:58 pm

Hello, I'm Yoshi! I'd like to request to have permission and granted access to edit articles on LifeWiki.

Done -- welcome to the site!

So far I've only run this far enough to get "3.14" out, at just under 250B ticks. But the odds seem quite good that it won't do anything surprising from here on out. Very nice! After 34 trillion generations: x = 6339, y = 6316, rule = B3/S23 5761b2o$5761b2o63$5825b2o$5825b2o41$5632b2o$5632b2o21$588...

I think the formating in the Forum Rules post has changed. I'm guessing that code and /code tags should be in plain text somehow, and the wiki tags shouldn't be in the code block. Fixed, thanks. This special page gives me an error: https://www.conwaylife.com/wiki/Special:WantedPages https://gyazo.c...

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I strongly object to adverting on this forum. Brian Prentice Please see this thread . I turned on ads today for non-logged-in users to see if it could reasonably sustain the bounty program mentioned there. Ads will never display if you're logged in. That said, if people still strongly object then o...

If I'm going to be quite honest, it seems a bit jarring in terms of color compared to the rest of the wiki, and also feels like it gets in the way to an extent. Maybe the links could be moved to the left sidebar? Honestly I kind of agree. I'll leave it up for at least a day though to see if anyone ...

Also, speaking of the wiki, could it be formatted so that it also has the same sort of page top layout as Home and Forums, or would this be too intrusive on the look of the wiki? I've added a bar to the wiki like the navbar on the main page and the forums pages, linking to the different sections of...

Macbi wrote: ↑

October 3rd, 2019, 4:07 am

I strongly think a dislike button would be a bad idea.

"Dislike" buttons will never, ever, ever happen. I hate them.