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An option to do to it with an unknown period is to make a glider pair delayed by 77 ... We're not really allowed to do this, I think -- the "vaccinated glider loop" disallows any 76-tick or 77-tick gaps, because that could cause horrible explosions in the unknown mechanisms that are bouncing the lo...

I guess an upper bound for P is needed then, but I cannot see how that can be useful, as the actual P might be magnitudes smaller... Yeah, the real challenge seems to be "Define a version of this problem that doesn't have a boring answer like 'count up to the upper bound of P while cleaning all the...

However, given the conditions you've specified, I can't see how the mechanism can possibly know for sure that its task is complete -- so it will have to keep deleting and re-adding gliders forever. Indeed, the mechanism itself might never be sure it is done, it only sees delays sequentially, and he...

Same as before, but the period P of the glider loop is unknown but finite. "Same as before" meaning the added mechanism still has to fill the period-P loop with the maximum number of gliders? I can see how to build a mechanism that can be activated by a signal from the (Y >= 0) half plane, that wil...

And that's a nice change from the cross-style herschel-loop guns of pretty much every gun in existence (CGOL). Nice construct! It would be great to see a few more guns build along these lines. I think that p5603 2-engine Cordership gun is still the only modern example. A number of other spaceship r...

I do believe it is possible, but I now think that designing still life circuits will be awfully painful, as one would have to do a lot of comparison of delays to get the exact number for the delay. Why would you care of the exact number? Well, you cannot remember the other delays on the loop, but y...

(510*509*508)/(3*2*1) 510 choose 3 , looks good. This program seems to be finding some fairly ridiculously high-period 1-cell spaceships, like the one blah just posted on Discord: (63,176)c/1278 spaceship -- x = 1, y = 1, rule = MAPhQAMHAREoAgIhgCAgAIAAACAgAQBAAgAAEAAAACCAAAAgAAAIAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA...

I am going to dare to ask you to elaborate ! Well, this is a challenge thread, so there's not much for Jormungant to elaborate -- the first post was pretty thorough. So everybody can either 1) build a mechanism that fits the specifications of the challenge, or 2) not build said mechanism. It looks ...

So it creates a memory loop which creates a memory loop outside it which creates a memory loop outside it...? Sort of. You looked at the blueprint? There would basically be four memory loops, and each one would get a little longer every four cycles of the spiraller. It would be an easy change to th...

Ah, alright. Maybe 1) BokaBB is not writing the definition clearly or 2) I'm just not too good at understanding. Can someone explain to me how would, for example, a type-2 work? Working from the sample blueprint above, 1) The memory loop on the west should be expanded to contain a single-channel re...

The type-2 and type-3 spirallers are an interesting idea. They're certainly possible, and they're different from any of the self-constructing spiral patterns that have been constructed so far. The point of previous patterns was to achieve linear population growth but logarithmic bounding-box growth,...

(addendum^2: well! that H-to-R fixed my problem in a strange way! instead of releasing a glider, just allow the next glider from the h-to-R to go through! here we go, syringe friendly universal regulator! Interesting! I went looking for a faster beehive factory that would work here, but didn't see ...

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May 26th, 2020, 9:15 am

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Can I have a LifeWiki trusted account so that I can add pages for the missing rulespaces in the wiki and also naive rules because its popular on discord for some reason? There's no "lemon41625" user account on the LifeWiki at the moment. Let me know when you get one set up -- it's a separate system.

All my confusion came from the fact I didn't know command line programs and normal executables were different things. They're not entirely distinct categories. Quite often you can pass in some command-line parameters to a "normal executable", and it will change its behavior. You're starting to find...

EDIT 3: Ooh nice it works! Again ultra mega sorry for the confusion! But still thanks for helping! You're very welcome. Command-line programs work so differently from Windows-based programs, that it can be totally confusing when nothing works the way you expect it to. That said, a Google search on ...

I'm terribly sorry for sounding like an idiot (I'm not joking!), but I really don't know. The process exits immediately after outputting the help screen and it doesn't seem to do anything else. Please understand :( Let's move this out of the epsrc thread , since blah didn't seem to want this level ...

I can't type anything in! This is a perfect example of a problem report that conveys no useful information. If you can't type anything in, the problem could be 1) you don't have a computer; 2) your computer doesn't have a keyboard attached; 3) there's a sheet of clear Plexiglass over the keyboard; ...

Yes, I did compile it and run it, but it does pretty much nothing and I don't know why! What am I doing wrong? Do I have to put what I am looking for in the code itself or something? No, you don't have to recompile the code for each search. It would be difficult for anyone to tell what you're doing...

BTW can you provide the Life p30 splitter that is compatible with p30 glider streams? I can't find it anywhere. Yeah, that's pretty much ancient technology -- John Conway figured it out in the '70s and wrote about it in _Winning Ways_. Here's a full set of seven p30 splitters from Dieter Leithner: ...

I still have a lot to learn as well. For example, I still didn't understand (and is tryin' to figure out) the color of a glider. I guess I'd start with two, four or eight classes (color & parity for example) Maybe the main thing to keep in mind is that it's hard to define absolute color and absolut...

Are any alternate sufficiently edgy loaf factories known? A quick search through the forums suggested no but I could have missed one. The loaf factory that is used is quite slow so if an alternate one is found it would probably result in a repeat time improvement. I haven't collected any that I can...

Sureeeeeeeeee, I'm working on it right now! I will come up with it soon. Any progress on the OTT classification front? I'd like to have this code available for one-time turners in Life as well, so I might just go ahead and write it after I finish a couple of other items. Ohhhhh no. I'm just about t...

kk, I guess its good to have benchmark then, there is a boring solution with recovery time 876 ... that fits the criterion you set ^^' success? Definitely! It's only a few ticks faster, but it's actually a significant improvement over chris_c / EV2's model. The 878-tick mechanism's output signal wa...

mmm, just so I understand, is the actual challenge to only remake the loafer bait without crossing the diagonal line (which is +- followed by the factory), or the restitution of the half blockade is a mandatory component of the challenge as well? Really any highway robber with a recovery time less ...