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yl6912 classified as zz_LINEAR from G1... Here are links to the zz_LINEAR page and the G1 soup . (I went and looked because the soup seemed to be the wrong one at first, but that appears to have been fixed now.) 6912 is an impressively high period for a switch-engine pair from random soup. The init...

Interesting. And it's less complex than I thought it would be too. Not only that, but it's an actual component, not just a synthesis. The last eight gliders can add that ridiculous decoration to just about anything that looks like a tub at one corner. There's a huge amount of clearance: x = 367, y ...

Hdjensofjfnen wrote: ↑

Yesterday, 7:10 pm

A simple 2-block OTT...

See also the LifeWiki turner article. This is the turner Seeds of Destruction uses for a 90-degree color-preserving turn.

There's another two-block OTT, also color-preserving, but it's a 180-degree turn.

There's still a scattering of unsynthesized 19-bitters with workable soups. Here's one, xs19_ciajk4ozw470 1, that can be packed into the no-magic box. 15G: x = 195, y = 84, rule = B3/S23 138bo$139bo$137b3o2$9bo$7bobo$8b2o13$25bo$26bo$24b3o5$166bo$164bobo$ 165b2o2$49bo$48bo134bo$48b3o131bobo$182bobo$...

In case anyone is interested, I did successfully get a search running on a Microsoft Azure VM, using a 30-day $200 credit that they give you when you first sign up. You do have to give a credit card number, but they say they'll only charge anything on it if and when I upgrade -- will report on how t...

By the way, mention an issue again: there aren't anything else other than the orthogonoid in the pattern, despite the name and comments talking about some rakes. Thanks! See, that's why other people should be cleaning up and commenting patterns for the collection. I try to do as much as I can quick...

SuperJedi224 wrote: ↑

January 19th, 2020, 1:02 am

Can you grant my account edit access?

Done!

... my earlier query about schematics for individual sections of the metacell still remains. No rush, though. I'm hoping to get back to that later this year -- just have a bit more to do on schematics for the pi and phi calculators first. The metacell pieces that will need to be analyzed and labele...

Piece #0104 gave me the longest partial I've seen yet -- length 69. Just looked through the other reports so far, and there don't seem to be any others above length 60, and very few even in the 50s. Seems almost as if this one actually wants to be a c/8 spaceship. It takes 80+ ticks for the front en...

Before I start... Can anyone give me an Explanation for Dummies on how to run the C++ file in the ZIP archive? The first few posts walk through all the steps -- assuming you have a C++ compiler installed. What's your operating system? If it's Windows, your first step is probably to download and ins...

x = 9, y = 9, rule = B3/S23 bo$2bo$3o$7b2o$7b2o3$2b2o2b2o$2b2o2b2o! x = 97, y = 24, rule = B3/S23 10b2o30b2o30b2o$10b2o30b2o30b2o$2o30b2o30b2o$2o30b2o30b2o4$15b2o30b2o 30b2o$15b2o30b2o30b2o$4b2o$3bobo$5bo4$31b2o30b2o30b2o$31b2o30b2o30b2o 4$16b2o30b2o30b2o$16b2o30b2o30b2o$26b2o30b2o30b2o$26b2o30b2o3...

I nominate the Y.A.Y.! bubble... Why? I know this keeps stretching the nomination period, but I'd like to nominate simsim314's "99 bottles of beer on the wall"-printing pattern . Also Extrementhusiast’s spaghetti monster eater and the associated Heisenburp device by Goldtiger997, since no one seems...

Request: A script that reads a 2-state rule table and outputs its MAP string Wouldn't this version of MAPper work? I.e., Ctrl+Shift+O the rule table in question, then run MAPper and copy out the MAP string? I just tried this with olife , and got a MAP string that seems to behave identically to olif...

I'm sick of you rebuking me, Mary Poppins! All right. I've solved that problem for you temporarily. This message is your third and final warning, and the first ban period is one week. After that period, any further posts similar your most recent one -- i.e., messages that have absolutely nothing to...

You'd better ask @Moosey first before you continue rebuking me! Please read my post carefully. I've already addressed that issue, and won't be spending much more time trying to explain it to you. Your opinion that you're being mistreated is clearly very strongly held. Judging by people's responses ...

I already wondered if there are other patterns beside the usual glider which move diagonally... The easiest ones to find with a search program are the lowest period, c/4 (same speed as a glider) -- see Patterns/Life/Spaceships/c4-diagonal.rle . There are also known c/5, c/6, and c/7 elementary diag...

You won't stop rebuking me until I die, am I right? Not quite right, no. If you appear to be making a good-faith effort to understand and follow the rules of the forum, but you make an honest mistake now and then, I'll continue to point out what you did wrong and suggest what you can do differently...

Ch91 wrote: ↑

January 15th, 2020, 9:14 pm

Why would an older version of Chrome not have this issue? It doesn't make sense.

My N years of working as a software test engineer make me want to say: it makes perfect sense to me!

If new versions of programs never introduced new bugs, there wouldn't be any bugs.

I'm using Chrome right now (albeit on the mobile browser). The file is about as large as you described, but copying the path into Chrome makes it malfunction in the same way. I click on the play button and it immediately reappears as if I had never pressed it, with nothing playing in between. Hm, n...

Sorry, posted into the wrong thread. Could one of the admins please move my latest post into this very thread about "cellular automata according to Max Planck"? Your latest post before this one is just a partial quote from a previous post . Is that the one you mean? Requests like this are much less...

It doesn't look like anything above 14h has gotten mentioned anywhere (?) They have, actually. The die hard wiki page has shown for a while a 1638-tick diehard found by carybe on 2019-03-29 . Ah, thanks for the pointer. -- Bother, the original form of the glider-constructible C4_1 lasts only 1629 t...

The piece(s) would be split from the latest dump which would allow the rest of the search for those pieces to be distributed. Seeing as there's so much of the rest of the search space still left it's probably not necessary yet. OTOH, i have a feelinv that gfind searches like this can progess more e...

It's not fully automatic, but I think this would have been popular in an alternate universe where CGOL was invented before digital computers. CGOL really was invented quite a few years before computers, in a sense -- ubiquitous, inexpensive, easy-to-use personal computers, at any rate. Early storie...

Just noticed there are symmetric diehards in the 16h messless bin now. It doesn't look like anything above 14h has gotten mentioned anywhere (?), so here's a celebratory LifeViewer with a fairly pointless 28G synthesis of one of them ( messless hashsoup/C4_1/l_UgAakbjWsQC41075418 ): x = 275, y = 275...

Moosey wrote: ↑

January 15th, 2020, 8:07 am

dvgrn comes to notify people that they are in whirlpool, tries to explain

In five paragraphs...