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clearance But isn't that variant nonspartan? Definitely non-Spartan. No doubt slow-salvo recipes could be found for it if someone wanted to try, but it's much simpler just to design self-constructing circuitry so that the extra clearance isn't needed. You can still get in trouble with slsparse if y...

LaundryPizza03 wrote: ↑

Yesterday, 1:25 am

Gun found in B378/S23, Gun article needs to be updated accordingly.

Done. Any interest in setting up a LifeWiki account?

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September 22nd, 2020, 7:05 pm

EDIT 2: Weirdly, Catagolue marked the component as successful but didn't actually update it.

Ooh, ooh, I can explain that one! Count the number of gliders in the right recipe very carefully.

Speed Demonoid v2 progress report: The next version of the Speed Demonoid will have less SLs (probably) and shorter recipe (surely), as well as actually achieving sub-c/4 speed... Awesome! I was hoping you'd be working on a rebuild (so I wouldn't have to). The new blueprint looks good. Here's hopin...

A honey farm predecessor reacting with a block edgeshoots a block a long way off. x = 7, y = 7, rule = B3/S23 2o$2o4bo$5bo$6bo2$4b2o$5bo! Here's a similar example: x = 8, y = 8, rule = B3/S23 o$o$o5bo$7bo$7bo2$5b2o$5bo! A LifeHistory version of the first example, to show how good it is -- I think t...

Your latest list shows this object ([16.2808]) with a seven Glider construction. It is most likely known, but I've got a six in my database-- x=120, y=86 5bo113bo$6b2o109b2o$5b2o111b2o25$89bo$88bo$88b3o3$24bo$25b2o$24b2o8bo$35b o41bo$33b3o42b2o$77b2o2$31b2o54b2o$32b2o52b2o$31bo39bobo14bo$72b2o$29b3...

What's the chance that there ends up being no stabilization for the P41 wick at all? Seems very low to me, given that we already have perfectly good stabilizations for the p41 wick . They're just not true-period stabilizations: x = 541, y = 185, rule = LifeHistory 73.2A51.2A11.A261.A11.2A51.2A$17.2...

Is this 2c/5 known or did I miss it in jslife? x = 10, y = 31, rule = B3/S23 2bo$b3o$bo2bo$2b3o$bo$2ob5o$2ob2o3bo$6bo2bo$5bo2bo$3bobob2o$3bo$8bo$4b o4bo$4bo3bo$4bo$4bo$5bo$3b2o$3b3o$5bo$3bo2bo$3bobobo$5b3o$5b2o$6bo$4bo bo$3bo2bo$3bobo$3bo$5bo$4bo! It's under "64" in Golly's Patterns/Life/Spaceships...

And I do mean 1hd apart. It'll become 1fd total after the entire cycle repeats. OK, got it. Edit: Found a way to get rid of the highway robber. ... There's still this weird-looking thing though... So then why did you use that particular H-to-G at the end there? There are dozens of H-to-Gs available...

Glide-reflection forces the input and output lanes to be 1hd apart, so I have to use a highway robber or some other kind of reflector with a transparent lane right next to its input lane. In other words, it can be on both sides of the input, as long as it doesn't block the output. But these inputs ...

Edit: How do I sryinge when slow-salvo-ing? Not sure what that question means. Syringes are an integral part of self-constructing circuitry, but you have to use the eater2-only version followed by an Lx200, because that's more or less the only glider-to-Herschel conversion that works with a repeat ...

Well, I just ask slmake to build the slow salvo recipe and put its output between the sides of the spaceship, right? EDIT: Or is there something I'm missing here? As a high-level overview, that's pretty much correct. But there's a good bit of work to do before you can "just ask slmake" anything. Th...

One could send pairs of gliders. However, this has several problems, such as not being able to tell which reflection ash is present and requiring a mechanism to store how long the previous glider took to return in order to know how long to wait for the current glider. Another possibility is to ente...

EDIT: I would also like to mention that I was unaware that there was that camelship in the first place. There's also a half-finished giraffeship design that avoids the need for the tricky recipe-crossing glider used in the camelship. If I remember right, that recipe-crossing camelship glider does t...

I had an interesting idea for a true-period geminoid-like spaceship... (I have no idea how to make an explicit example of a self-constructing spaceship though lol) It's a little difficult to follow the description without a diagram. How is this idea different from chris_c's camelship ? Ships with a...

Do they also work with the debris from signal reflection? No. I don't think that can be predicted in advance, even. There are only two reflection mechanisms, so there are only three possibilities, including the standard ash. Quite possibly we can drive a fleet of various kinds of Corderships past t...

I've discovered a flaw in the current design. Due to the Snark being behind the still-burning second wick, you have to add delay to the loop proportional to the distance between the Snark and the splitter. So, the supremum of the speeds achieveable is 2c/9, not c/4. That is fixable, but requires re...

How do you find conduits? Whenever I try to perturb stuff by putting blocks and eaters around it, I just get useless things like these... The first rule -- that I at least would like everyone to follow -- is never to just start with a pi-heptomino or R-pentomino or whatever, at T=0. Instead, go to ...

A slightly different and not entirely serious angle: Conway's Life has also turned out to be a fairly effective Sorting Hat, so to speak, that can divide up Lifenthusiasts into "mathematician" and "engineer" categories. At least the way I hear the story, Conway proved in the very early 1970s that th...

The two measurements that seem relevant to clock vs. pond, or clock vs. ship are seed size and glider synthesis cost. It so happens that you can hit a blinker with one glider and get either a pond or a ship. You can't hit any small ash object with a glider and get a clock. I'm not sure what the smal...

Rule 60 can be made though. I'll try my hand at it and edit the post when I succeed ... I'll try one more time ... EDIT 2: I did it! Awesome! Yeah, having to edit some of the "anchor" lines but not others is really confusing. But it sure looks like you found all the right lines. So, are you interes...

Finally, Speed Demonoid is here! Congratulations! It's really great to see this spaceship in working order. It seems really elegant. There are only 13 still lifes in each half of its permanent circuitry, plus another 26 that make up the TRIGGER1, TRIGGER2, and self-destruct paths -- under 40 still ...

What about rule 30, 100 or 22? How can these be programmed in a similar manner? Well, have a good look at the APGsembly. The rule is hard-coded into the script, of course, but the basic structure is definitely capable of supporting some other 1D range-1 2-state rules. Not all of them, though (see b...

Maybe the next line of investigation would be to see if there are sixteen different sets of two reflectors plus a period doubler, plus optional Bandersnatch, that can be swapped in to any glider lane to get any color and mod-8 phase combination. It seems to be necessary to include rectifiers in a f...

Here's an adjustable 8c/(108+4n) spaceship using it... I wanted to try a spacefiller on a twisted torus with one infinite dimension, but Golly doesn't seem to support that -- or am I just doing something silly? Neither LifeViewer nor Golly seem to be happy with the ":T128,0+2" variant below. So ins...