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- Yesterday, 5:40 pm
- Forum: Patterns
- Topic: One Glider Seeds
- Replies: 110
- Views: 11788
Re: One Glider Seeds
Am I accidentally sending (potentially annoying) notifications when I edit the information back in, and if so, is there an alternative that doesn't send unnecessary notifications? Edit notifications might happen occasionally, but if so I haven't noticed them. Probably no need to worry about them. I...
- Yesterday, 3:07 pm
- Forum: Patterns
- Topic: One Glider Seeds
- Replies: 110
- Views: 11788
Re: One Glider Seeds
The Python3 find-octohash script turns out to be a good tool for this kind of thing. it found a hundred and seventy-odd clean Herschel descendant seeds, and I only had to look as far as the eighth constellation to find one that allowed a glider to sneak in from outside… Why did I get a quote notifi...
- Yesterday, 1:19 pm
- Forum: Website Discussion
- Topic: Suggested LifeWiki edits
- Replies: 247
- Views: 73309
Re: Suggested LifeWiki edits
Please write about octohash in Tutorials/Glider syntheses ... I've put in a section on the octohash database. If you think something needs more explanation, let me know (or just add whatever-it-is!) I'll be checking in a couple more files into the Git repository at some point, to show how the octoh...
- Yesterday, 10:49 am
- Forum: The Sandbox
- Topic: Fresh Durian For Sale
- Replies: 48
- Views: 1367
Re: Fresh Durian For Sale
BokaBB, please don't report your own Sandbox posts just because you're vaguely worried that the moderators will notice Something Bad and suddenly ban you. If you're that worried about a post, just don't post it. Moderators are not going to spend a lot of time patrolling the Sandbox. The Sandbox was ...
- Yesterday, 7:15 am
- Forum: Patterns
- Topic: PotY 2020 Nomination Thread
- Replies: 41
- Views: 1550
Re: PotY 2020 Nomination Thread
wow - no new nominations ? well, here is static conduit glider-to-loafer converter print head technology... Is this second post a pattern nomination, or no? I know the loafer bitmap printer was from 2020, but is this p46/stable cyborg new in 2021? By now, a month or so into the new year, the usual ...
- January 25th, 2021, 2:32 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Golly suggestions
- Replies: 271
- Views: 123142
Re: Golly suggestions
What's the next step now? ... There was some mention of LifeViewer labels. How would those work in Golly? The next step is probably for me to do a trial run of having this script generate readable LifeViewer labels as well as the old-style comments. For variety I'll try doing the ones that only sho...
- January 25th, 2021, 7:25 am
- Forum: Website Discussion
- Topic: LifeWiki Trusted Account Request Thread - Post requests here
- Replies: 447
- Views: 175390
- January 25th, 2021, 6:08 am
- Forum: Patterns
- Topic: 20-bit still life syntheses
- Replies: 68
- Views: 5709
Re: 20-bit still life syntheses
Yeah, I checked in a Python3 version here a couple of weeks ago, for wildmyron's improved version of the database (duplicates removed, and a subset of 4G collisions added).
- January 24th, 2021, 7:52 am
- Forum: Patterns
- Topic: (34,7)c/156 caterpillar
- Replies: 63
- Views: 39112
Re: (34,7)c/156 caterpillar
... there are actually 3 remaining problems. The first problem is that I need to re-design your frontend (or make a similar frontend that uses the same idea as Upward LWSS + NE-travelling glider = block ) so that NW gliders can travel through the LWSS streams, but I am having trouble with this. The...
- January 23rd, 2021, 10:56 pm
- Forum: Patterns
- Topic: H-to-G and H-to-Gn converter collection
- Replies: 150
- Views: 135168
Re: H-to-G and H-to-Gn converter collection
Fun fact: The ship that a Herschel creates is from a glider-blinker collision. Suppressing the blinker allows the glider to escape... See HSE19T42 in the Elementary Conduits collection (though it isn't elementary, of course, so it's colored yellow): x = 47, y = 81, rule = LifeHistory D3.D2.3D2.5D3....
- January 23rd, 2021, 9:06 am
- Forum: Patterns
- Topic: (34,7)c/156 caterpillar
- Replies: 63
- Views: 39112
Re: (34,7)c/156 caterpillar
Progress I made so far on the above frontend design. It's not much and I'm having trouble figuring out how to complete it. Once the LWSS and XWSS lanes are finished and once the NW glider rakes in the above design is complete (not the blue lone the grey line) I can complete the caterpillar frontend...
- January 23rd, 2021, 9:03 am
- Forum: Website Discussion
- Topic: Suggested LifeWiki edits
- Replies: 247
- Views: 73309
Re: Suggested LifeWiki edits
Do we have examples of an intermitting glider gun (or intermittent) that can be added to the LifeWiki? (And also, is it related to regulator s?) There's not really any relation to regulators, which take unsynchronized signals and get them synchronized to some particular period. In an IMG, usually e...
- January 22nd, 2021, 11:03 am
- Forum: Patterns
- Topic: Soup-searching for potentially conduit-yielding reactions
- Replies: 11
- Views: 607
Re: Soup-searching for potentially conduit-yielding reactions
The R-pentomino doesn't have to be formed that way. I tend to include the original reaction that I found the reaction in, but should I stop doing that? No need to stop, but maybe make it a little more parenthetical? "(originally found in this reaction at T=227): [ RLE ]". This one had a particular ...
- January 22nd, 2021, 10:43 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Thread for basic questions
- Replies: 2383
- Views: 679381
Re: Thread for basic questions
That being said, if you place your blinkers and pre-blocks very carefully, you can get really-long-lived methuselahs with less cells than that. True... except I still would be very careful not to call those "methuselahs", because at this pattern size, there are still probably more of them than ther...
- January 22nd, 2021, 10:26 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Thread for basic questions
- Replies: 2383
- Views: 679381
Re: Thread for basic questions
is this considered a methuselah? Not really. There are probably more different Life patterns of that size that last longer than 36,000 ticks, than there are electrons in the observable universe. A methuselah generally starts with a much smaller bounding box and population than that; otherwise you c...
- January 22nd, 2021, 10:15 am
- Forum: Patterns
- Topic: 20-bit still life syntheses
- Replies: 68
- Views: 5709
Re: 20-bit still life syntheses
Is that not 15G, instead of 16G? The glider and pattern shown in the middle step is duplicated in the last step, and the initial blinker comes from 2G. Yup, I did the layout wrong -- should have been x = 236, y = 81, rule = B3/S23 214bobo$214b2o$215bo$124b2o78b2o$123bo2bo4bo71bo2bo4bo$123b2obo3bobo...
- January 22nd, 2021, 10:10 am
- Forum: Patterns
- Topic: Soup-searching for potentially conduit-yielding reactions
- Replies: 11
- Views: 607
Re: Soup-searching for potentially conduit-yielding reactions
Observe the interaction in the upper-right starting at generation 227... At T=227 you have an R-pentomino heading leftward, and the fishhook turns it into a century, but the century shows up in the middle of a bunch of already-used territory from T=140 to T=160 or so. Why would a century be useful ...
- January 21st, 2021, 7:23 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Thread for basic questions
- Replies: 2383
- Views: 679381
Re: Thread for basic questions
Is there in CGoL such a thing as "moving" or "flowing" conduits, or signals which act as conduits for other signals ? I am envisioning bi-directional universal construction, with feedback flowing in both directions that modifies the construct... I remember there was a small amount of discussion aft...
- January 21st, 2021, 6:43 pm
- Forum: Patterns
- Topic: 20-bit still life syntheses
- Replies: 68
- Views: 5709
Re: 20-bit still life syntheses
Transfer search solved 44, 429 remaining, of which 99 have at least one soup. Thanks for the new list! Here's xs20_8kid2cggzx3543 in 16G, probably improvable with some pain and Seeds-of-Destruction searching, from the last of the five soups : x = 236, y = 81, rule = B3/S23 214bobo$214b2o$215bo$124b...
- January 21st, 2021, 5:05 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Thread for basic questions
- Replies: 2383
- Views: 679381
Re: Thread for basic questions
Has anyone done a systematic investigation of p3 agars? I mean, I don't really know what they're good for, but I wasn't aware they even existed. Gabriel Nivasch did some systematic searches for p3 agars back in 2002: Subject: P3 agar search results I used my toroidal adaptation of Lifesrc to search...
- January 20th, 2021, 10:44 pm
- Forum: Website Discussion
- Topic: Suggested LifeWiki edits
- Replies: 247
- Views: 73309
Re: Suggested LifeWiki edits
Can there be a LifeWiki page on Hexagonal Life (B2/S34H)? Sure! We didn't create the OCA namespace on the LifeWiki last year so that people would be afraid to use it. A certain amount of notability is still a good idea, but I'd say things can be a little more relaxed in the Wild West OCA universe. ...
- January 20th, 2021, 12:14 pm
- Forum: Patterns
- Topic: The Hunting of the Elementary Conduits
- Replies: 465
- Views: 262297
Re: The Hunting of the Elementary Conduits
Okay, so your source was probably the relevant 2G->P collision: No, I was thinking about this . Aha, yet another category of conduit, where examples have been cropping up for decades, but we don't have a dedicated collection thread. I've been calling them "stop-and-go" or "stop-and-restart" conduit...
- January 20th, 2021, 7:20 am
- Forum: Patterns
- Topic: The Hunting of the Elementary Conduits
- Replies: 465
- Views: 262297
Re: The Hunting of the Elementary Conduits
I think that I figured out how to get the pi input in a while ago. Okay, so your source was probably the relevant 2G->P collision: x = 104, y = 36, rule = LifeHistory 5.A69.A$4.2BA67.2BA$4.3AB66.3AB$5.4B4.2A5.2B53.4B$6.4B3.A.A2.4B54.4B$ 7.4B3.A8B54.4B13.A$8.4B4.7B55.4B10.3A$9.4B3.6B57.4B8.A$10.4B.6...
- January 19th, 2021, 9:05 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Thread for basic questions
- Replies: 2383
- Views: 679381
Re: Thread for basic questions
are there any known conduits that can edgeshoot a loaf? The best known one is the one in modern highway robber s. This is really a standard H-to-pi followed by a pi-to-loaf: x = 65, y = 43, rule = LifeHistory 62.2A$62.A$60.A.A$59.A.A$55.2A3.A$55.2A2$59.4B$52.2A4.3B$51.B2AB2.4B$ 52.2B2.4B$25.A25.2B2...
- January 19th, 2021, 8:37 pm
- Forum: Patterns
- Topic: The Hunting of the Elementary Conduits
- Replies: 465
- Views: 262297
Re: The Hunting of the Elementary Conduits
What can it connect to?
EDIT: Argh. Why not start conduit searches with actual working input conduits, rather than vague memories or hopes? It's hard to connect up a conduit when one of the stages is a rumor.