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Maybe the intended question is "What patterns can be improved by recent new discoveries?" I.e., what can we build better now, but we just haven't gotten around to it yet? The example that always comes to mind for me these days is the "SQ" / "B2D" two-dimensional memory component in the Osqrtlogt pat...

If the clipboard data does look like valid supported script (Python/Lua), show a warning message saying this: The clipboard appears to contain a <insert language name here> script. Do you want to run it? --- <insert clipboard text here so that the Golly user can preview it, before deciding whether ...

Copying each of the following RLEs into clipboard and doing "File -> Run Clipboard" causes the error message appended after that RLE... The first two messages seem to make some sense -- they're what happen if you try to interpret RLE as code. Probably it does make sense to disallow running anything...

I just checked out ChatGPT on Conway's Life topics again, and it has definitely improved -- in the sense that it now seems to be able to admit when it doesn't know something, rather than just making things up out of whole cloth: dvgrn: In Conway's Game of Life, what is a reverse caber tosser? ChatGP...

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Where is the OCA Discovery of the Year voting topic?

There isn't a voting thread yet, I believe, just the nomination thread. Apparently there's some work left to be done still, on the LIfeWiki nomination lists.

It's at least a G-to-Loaf if you remove the Eater-Bridge-Eater... G-to-beehive, I think you mean? Pretty good clearance. Possibly good enough to manage some kind of restore-the-bait trick, in just the right situation. A glider following after the first one will make a fairly clean output Herschel, ...

with the two gifs, i was expirementing to see if i could post them on a forum post if i uploaded them to the wiki. it didnt work. Why not just make inline attachments to forum posts, directly? I've done an inline attachment and a regular attachment to your recent eye of the glider post , to show th...

What is this? File:Eye of the glider.gif File:B2n3 s23.gif https://conwaylife.com/w/index.php?title=Us:0e&redirect=no https://conwaylife.com/w/index.php?title=Us:ta&redirect=no https://conwaylife.com/w/index.php?title=U:UN&redirect=no The last three are abbreviation pages, but what about the other ...

Should I push this change to GitHub right now? (There are also a few additions, since oscillators keep being discovered, but it should be an overall reduction in file size.) A push to GitHub seems fine. Or ... is there any reason to do some kind of fork at this point? I.e., is there still any possi...

Not sure what to do about the other two patterns. I've checked in improvements to both of these. Not sure how the comments ended up disappearing from the signal-turns-and-fizzles pattern, but it was probably my fault -- it's easy to lose them when changing formats to .rle.gz or .mc.gz. If someone w...

I just have no idea what is or isn't in range to be synthesized and I assume/hope this i the right place to ask. Hmm. Syntheses of objects like xs20_31248g0s248gzy21y11246 make me wonder if it might end up being workable to grow that wick from one end, rather than building separate pieces and then ...

What is https://lazyslug.com/lifeview/plugin/ ? That's the root directory for Chris Rowett's LifeViewer test bed -- lots of sample patterns, which for the latest build of LifeViewer should all still do ... some appropriate thing related to what the test case is named. It might be good to collect a ...

Is there a 0-degree reflector such that no objects block [its] output lane? No elementary stable shifters yet with transparent output lanes, if I'm remembering right. You didn't disallow periodic shifters, so the glider pusher technically counts, though it's not elementary either. It's easy to cobb...

Another question : What is the fastest Stable Edge Shooter in repeat time ? That's another category that could use a collection thread. It would be a fairly small collection, unless you included transparent-lane mechanisms like the Scorbie Splitter and Extrementhusiast's Transparent Turner. But the...

Either this Edge Shooter is very interesting, but how do you connect it ? Without increasing its repeat time too much … You know about the connection in the RNE-19T84 article, right? That's the old traditional version, and very often it's useful -- but it does put out that awkward perpendicular gli...

[...] Possibly we could get away with a LifeWiki article for it under just "Transparent Turner" to go with "Scorbie Splitter"? Which would have the exact same problem as using spiral growth or glider loop or p45 pi-heptomino hassler for an article about a specific pattern (as opposed to a general c...

Is there a stable reflector with the additional property that it does not get in the way of the output lane? Sure, lots of them! One of the smallest color-changing ones is the Scorbie Splitter , and there's a color-preserving version that's basically a dependent syringe plus an HNE16T14 variant , t...

Yes! Where do I sign up for that? Is there an API? Conceivably I could even have a script updating velocity tags on my posts automatically so I don't have to remember... Ha, a workable API would be a nice feature indeed. I don't know of any such thing, unfortunately. The stuff that I've written is ...

Most recently I wanted to find all posts of mine containing the string "(2, 1)c/5" but phpBB search is fixated on words of which that string contains none longer than one letter (which phpBB refuses to search). At least for something like 4c/8 I could filter for "4c" and read whatever showed up (in...

I think a number of corrections and suggestions that were posted earlier here and in other threads could be done incrementally, making it easy to understand what are the few remaining stumbling blocks and what could be done about those. Yup, I'm trying to work incrementally -- just going very slowl...

Couldn't find such a script using forum search (seriously? it's so simple!), so i'm posting my random MAP rule generator... I've moved a response by b-engine out to the "Miscellaneous Discoveries in Other Cellular Automata" thread, just because this "Golly scripts" thread needs to be about Golly sc...

RGB332 feels similar to what I described above. You would still want to increment 75 at a time to avoid similar colors next to each other, though. Depending on what unname4798 wants to use the RGB332 rule for, it might be better to have the states organized in some easy-to-predict enumeration with ...

As far as I know, nobody knows exactly how many such families are there, for any chosen well-defined notions of equivalence/families of collisions. Yup, if somebody had done a well-defined enumeration, we'd probably have heard about it. A number that gives the flavor of the size of the three-glider...

There are still a few patterns that need updating (at least traffic-light-hasslers.rle, c3-orthogonal.rle, c4-orthogonal.rle, and spaceship-types.rle; probably more). How soon should this be done? If there's an imminent plan for another beta build, I haven't heard about it. I've still got a couple ...

What is the smallest two-engine cordership eater? Offhand I don't remember anything smaller than the one used in the Exploratorium (but I could easily have forgotten something): x = 67, y = 62, rule = Life 32b2o$32b2o6$30bo3bobo$28b2o9b3o$27bobob2o4b2o2bo$27b4o4b4ob2o$37b3o8$ 50b2o$48bobob2o$37b2o5...