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It's the Python code I posted earlier... ... g.clear(0) g.clear(1) I think you'll find that the only problem here is that you don't call g.new("") anywhere in your script. If you do that, then Golly won't try to record and remember in its Undo buffer every single individual step that your script ta...

I will not be running the program any more. Whenever I run the program (and don't end it immediately or near-immediately), Golly will not close normally, and when I either start a new file or have to quit, I have to force quit. One time, I decided to keep it going on the same file for as long as po...

{whatever the smallest p76N Herschel loop is}... As of 2012, I think the smallest known true-period p76 gun was this, adapted from a period-doubled version with a smaller bounding box from Jason Summers' guns1j collection: x = 164, y = 64, rule = B3/S23 32bo49bo49bo$30b3o20b2o6b2o17b3o20b2o6b2o17b3...

Does anyone know if the dual pi hassler above, at 82 cells, is the smallest known p76? (I would imagine it is; what else do we have besides Herschel tracks and glider loops, especially since 76/2=38 and 76/4=19 are unknown periods?) Yup, I just took a quick look at my copies of DRH-oscillators, jsl...

is the source code available? The short answer is "no". The medium-length answer is that LifeViewer was written as an exercise in learning Javascript, so it would have to be rewritten from the ground up before it would be ready to share. Just the minified-with-Closure-Compiler version of the source...

The search space for these reaction is quite large, I wonder if anyone did look into it more systematically... My recollection is that people tend to do specific gencols searches to find what they need for a particular project. But I can't think of any particular place to look for a fully assembled...

Is the script you are mentioning called metafier.py? I've been trying to run that one, but I can't seem to get an output. I've been editing the hexadecimal.mc pattern manually to see if I could get a cell to change, but so far I've only messed up the metadata or pattern entirely. The syntax is conf...

...is probably either his alternative account,a Trumpoid (guess yourself what that means) or another user behaving like it and having an account just for the fun of doing it (in this concrete case some suspect it to be Hunting),with the possibility of it being a completely independent account being...

I want to recreate a 2 color (b&w) video that could be condensed down to 64x60 pixels while still being recognizable. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtutLA63Cp8 I will look into hexadecimal.mc.gz, thanks for the help! I still have in my old Gmail archives the conversation with Brice Due, when we w...

I am trying to make a productive atmosphere for others and help moderating, however. It's good to hear that you're trying to contribute to a productive atmosphere. It is the opinion of at least one moderator that it does not contribute to a productive atmosphere when wild accusations are made about...

IMHO most of the agar patterns are easier in the eyes if we showcase them over toruses... Most of the times it's just adding the " :T_width,_height " modifier to the rule. Some others, like requires far more tweaking. This particular sample is fairly straightforward to stabilize, at least enough to...

I've made some minor updates since then, but not enough to update the GitHub. Hmm, okay, just let me know when you get those changes checked in. I started updating oscillators.txt to add #N lines to more patterns, because it seemed to make sense to have the LifeViewer labels just show whatever was ...

There have been some recent developments relating to self-synthesizing spaceships (SMOS, or specifically SMOG) that haven't found their way into this thread yet. Should probably put a link or two here. Back in October, EvinZL posted a suggestion for a non-Hashlife-friendly design for a self-synthesi...

Hi, people! I am studying Mathematics at Licentiate Degree and liked to develop my research on Game of Life. I have doubts because my course forms math teachers and I would have to address mathematical applications of the Game of Life in the classroom. I appreciate any idea. Thanks! Conway's Life h...

This (or a variation thereof) might potentially allow a faster-recovery post-elbow-2c/3-to-G... It certainly seems like there are a lot of variants to explore here. You can get a slightly dirty B-heptomino out at the cost of four gliders, or two gliders plus a Herschel-to-beehive, so it's a 3-signa...

My question is: Does this reveal the boundary of CGoL universe? From 16x16 soups, you can go at most 288k ticks. Interesting! Thanks for doing this analysis. Back in 2009, when TOLLCASS was active, I did the same kind of analysis on somewhat sparser data, and came up with an estimated upper limit o...

I think that this W->G is new. The glider may look like the default glider output, but it's two lanes off. Sure seems to be new. Might be hard to attach anything to it, though. (?) The QF*138W works fine, but then the usual thing is to start with a pi to get a Q, and those catalysts get in the way ...

I know this isn't necessarily a caterpillar thread, but you guys essentially found the "spine" of a caterpillar for this velocity. If there is a way to make a glider rake that traverses on the "spine" that makes gliders go North (Northeast for example) then we could actually start building a caterp...

Unfortunately, I don't know how to create glider splitters/duplicators. For the creation of the loafer? Luckily that was actually done in the same year that the loafer was discovered, so it's not anachronistic to include something like this for the 2013 timestamp: x = 149, y = 188, rule = B3/S23 13...

My ideas... These all sound very reasonable. Would you be interested in building some of these? The original purpose for this particular timeline was to serve as an animation for the credits of Will Cavendish's documentary on Conway's Free Will Theorem (the sample video clip is pretty good -- check...

Turns out the letter Q is really difficult... Have you considered allowing descenders? For example, this Q is still "really" height 12 to match other letters, but it has no pre-block diagonal gaps: x = 12, y = 13, rule = B3/S23 2b2obob2o$2bob2obobo$2o6bobo$o8b2o$bo$2o3b2o2b2o$o4bobo2bo$bo4bob2o$2o ...

More updates... Thank you again for all this! Experimenting with auto-generating LifeViewer labels is now almost at the top of my To-Do list, finally -- just have to get one item for Nathaniel's Game-of-Life textbook out of the way first. Good Golly, here it is the other end of March already, and s...

p114 glider gun... Yowzers, that's quite an improvement -- a much simpler mechanism, and of course it can work for any p19N. Here's a much smaller p361 gun than the last one, for example, based on AbhpzTa's design: x = 213, y = 141, rule = B2n3/S23-q 27b2o$27b2o2$27b4o$27bo2bo2$29bo$30b2o$29b3o$29b...

I can't even load in a loafer. Why not, exactly? Please try being more specific in bug reports -- it seems silly to have to go through several cycles of posts to painfully extract the relevant information from people. I saved the script to Golly's Scripts/Python directory, entered "xq7_3nw17862z695...

I know of a script that turns patterns to apgcodes, but is there a script that turns apgcodes to patterns? This script by Ilmari Karonen seems to fit the bill. I haven't tested it, but the comments show a good level of awareness of the different apgcode variants. Tangential note: I knew the name "I...