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I believe my rewording is an improvement, in each specific case. That much has been clear from the beginning. So far, not even one single other member of the community besides you has been willing to speak up in these discussions to say that they believe that any of your transition->condition rewor...

I believe I already attempted to explain myself (both in the forum threads, and on the talk page of the article ). I'm afraid that those attempts to explain didn't actually address the current question. The question is no longer why "condition" is somehow so much better than "transition" that it's ...

While the pond fuse may be useless by itself, like many other fuses, they can be used as a synthesis material. For example, below is a snake-bridge-domino-bridge-snake yielding reaction discovered by KtT... Yup, and if that reaction makes a cheaper snake-bridge-domino-snake recipe than any other re...

The bracketed digits in 'B3(45678)/S12(678)' are conditions, not transitions. For example, 5 is an optional birth condition; 8 is an optional condition in both "birth" and "survival" subsets, and so on. Writing 'transitions' here is incorrect. I'm assuming you saw what I wrote immediately above thi...

https://conwaylife.com/w/index.php?diff=142658&oldid=142623 https://conwaylife.com/w/index.php?oldid=142661 Most People Can't See Reported Posts.. ... so to make things a little clearer, here's an explanation of the current state of this issue. Rather than create a separate post in the Edit War Rep...

Sorry if this isn't related, but I edited the latest post in this thread, adding a minor (major for me) reason for not deleting the pond fuse article. This discussion thread is a fine place to mention things like that. You just posted a new pond fuse as well, which seems to imply you haven't really...

I've been trying to find many pond fuses by hand. I only post the interesting (for example those that produce rare or semi-rare objects, produce a specific object in an interesting/unusual way, has unusual/interesting terminations, and/or is oblique), for the exact reason of protecting the pond fus...

Just to clarify: this thread is a "LifeWiki discussion" thread. It's supposed to be talking about the question of whether certain fuse article pages actually belong on the LifeWiki -- whether they're notable or not. The fuse thread would be a much better place to post actual fuses, figure out their ...

edit: here's a 3 state toggle... Hey, that's a directly-readable ternary memory cell, isn't it? I don't think we've ever had anything nearly this clean before: x = 51, y = 38, rule = B3/S23 23bo$17b2o3bobo$16bo2bo2bo2bo$17b2o4b2o5bo$29bobo$29bobo$30bo2$34bo$ 33bobo$33bobo$34bo$b2o$obo$2bo7$50bo$48b...

It's not a hassler neither a fuse : x = 121, y = 110, rule = LifeHistory 3$6.A.2A$6.3A$7.A3$7.2A$7.A.A3.2D$7.A6.2D$13.2D$13.D4$19.D.2D$19.3D$ 20.D4$32.A$31.2A$31.A.A23$45.3A$45.A$46.A12$70.2A$69.2A$71.A22$84.2A$ 84.A.A$84.A12$109.A$108.2A$108.A.A! When this kind of thing is moving away from the sou...

NewLifeCA #44, 9 December 2023: c/3 wick ship and greyship, c/5 diagonal wickstretcher, new c/2 and 3c/7 rake periods This is another NewLifeCA guest post by Matthias Merzenich -- thanks again, Matthias! Some of the quoted RLE below is longer than I usually venture to send in NewLifeCA emails these...

just to mention the HBK reaction... Isn't that an "uncontrollable glider". Not that I can see! In the various HBKs, here's what makes the perpendicular output gliders completely controllable: x = 103, y = 29, rule = B3/S23 100bobo$32bobo65b2o$32b2o67bo$33bo9$89b2o$21b2o56bo8bo2bo$11bo8bo2bo54b o9bo...

ideally, the debris could be converted to one or more spare gliders, so we could build another caterpillar based on it. If some or all of the objects in the debris can be used as one-time turners or splitters, it may be possible. There is a long boat in the debris, which may be useful. Um. It's cer...

After building my newest sawtooth, I realized that its ignition mechanism could also be used for a spaceship. This makes my recent high period diagonal c/4 spaceships obsolete. Here is the new design which allows for a much lower period... I really like the fuse design with the glider stream burnin...

No, it still doesn't explain what the . in ./zfind is A period in that context just means "look in the current directory". Two periods would mean "look in the next directory above the current directory". (Unfortunately, three periods do not mean "look in the next directory above that"... that would...

works for me, but the output is the issue, that tub is almost always in the way... There's at least one rather hair-raising exception, where a conduit can be connected to the output -- x = 38, y = 48, rule = LifeHistory 10.B$9.3DB$8.2BD2B$7.B3D2B$7.6B$7.7B$7.8B$8.8B$8.9B$7.6B.4B$7.10B$8. 8B.B$8.6B2...

Perhaps more controversially, should O(sqrt(log(t))) be moved to make use of the √ character? Note that we also have Template:sqrt , which allows for an inline overbar also, where the interior doesn't exceed one line in height (ie. it doesn't work when nested within itself, or with Template:frac s ...

Constructibility is directly relevant to Blockicness, though ... Nah. There are easier places to find constructibility, like spartanism. I will not dip to far into that, but you are wrong. confocaloid is completely correct about the origin of the term. It came into general use because of getting us...

this xs36 costs 112g and has two separate x-marks-the-spot stages... Speaking of x-marks-the-spot converters (this came up on Discord recently also) -- just noticed that the converter is actually eighteen stages painfully combined into one, not seventeen as I said somewhere: EDIT: Oops. Apparently ...

in terms of hive five oscillators, it might be a better idea to collide gliders... 63 is quite close to 61, the repeat time of the speed tunnel, which is kinda sorta as low as you can go with an engineered X-to-V-spark converter where a single signal gets split and synchronized to make a V. Of cour...

Cross-posting from Discord : This is a Herschel-to-V-spark converter with good clearance, repeat time 63, posted by iNoMed on 4 December 2023: x = 20, y = 34, rule = B3/S23 o$3o10b2o$3bo9b2o$2b2o7$bo$bobo$b3o14bo$3bo13bobo$17bobo$18bo10$11b2o$ 10bo2bo$11b2o3$10bo$9bobo$9bobo$10bo! Wasn't quite sure ...

Has quadratic growth ever appeared naturally or seminaturally in B3/S23? Not yet! Read the LifeWiki quadratic growth article. It's a safe bet that any new quadratic-growth soups that show up on Catagolue will immediately get mentioned there. Right now the status is this (emphasis mine): ... quadrat...

In my opinion, only strict volatility is defined for spaceships - technically, the volatility of all spaceships is 1 or it would be a puffer/wickstretcher. Not sure what you mean by "technically". Wouldn't the volatility of, let's say, a very long pufferfish spaceship technically be lower than the ...

glider reflector [based on the "G-to-X" beehive factory]... Nice one! -- another ghive-based 90-degree reflector that doesn't cross paths with the input. It's even a kind of inside-edge edge shooter. There's a huge spark that spills over the edge, but no actual catalysts. The spark knocks down the ...

Does that mean that other periods would be possible with a similar design? If yes, what would be the minimum period? And how does the period affect the size? How did you construct this? With helper scripts? Or rather manually? I'm very interested in FWKnightship's answer to this. I can say, based o...