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... x = 12, y = 8, rule = B34c/S234y8 2o$2o4b2o$3b2o2bo$3b2obob2obo$6bobob2o$3b2obo$3bo2bo$4b2o! BLOCK (with a little support) EATING A BLOCK.... INCREDIBLE!!!!!!!!!!! I HAVE TO see more exploration of my rules now! Heh, I'm not sure this entirely counts as "exploration". That's just the plain-vani...

Oddly enough, I'm not sure that a README file in Golly is the most likely place to advertise the existence of tutorials like the ones on the LifeWiki . (There are some fairly basic tutorials there, but it's definitely never a bad idea to add more of them!) There's a lot of information available in G...

I am using Golly 3.3 to try and run the apgsearch 1.1. I have downloaded python 2.7.16 from the official python website. However, when I try to run a .py file, Golly says "could not load the python library." I am using windows. Why is this? Most likely you either downloaded 32-bit Golly and 64-bit ...

Is it possible to build a "fast HBK" treating the half-bakery reaction as a climber? (probably yes) If so, why hasn't anybody build one yet? (or thought of it yet?) It's definitely been thought of. I remember vaguely working through the implications back when the half-baked knightships were still i...

xs24_g8kidik8gz0124b421 just stirred up some interest on Discord. Dumping all the soups out to a big RLE file turned up quite a few exceptions to the general rule that this still life appears within the first few ticks. The full collection of 602 soups is attached. 602-xs24-soups.rle Should be pret...

But there could be some other issues. How would the grid of unit cells handle multiple active elements (i.e. more than one ant)? And should the cell display the ant's location and orientation that makes visualization more complex with states beyond binary black/white? Yup, just wiring up some kind ...

In my Pi puffer life thread I cannot make the big LifeViewer collections openable. Also,parts of them get removed and (some) a weird line(s) appear(s). However,that last likely appeared because I had a Draw brush back then but is pretty weirdly behaving and putting bigger lines. Solution? I went ah...

It can also work at any period above 72—although that doesn't look like it will make inserting the spark much easier. Ah, interesting -- I had missed that detail, that sparking the stable boats works the same way as sparking the pre-boats: x = 40, y = 23, rule = LifeHistory 7.2B25.BABA$6.4B24.B2AB$...

There are also a few pre-built examples of OTCA metapixel patterns in Golly's Patterns/HashLife folder -- the three files that start with the word "metapixel". Turn up the step size in Golly to somewhere between 8^3 and 8^6 before running these. The 'galaxy' pattern is Life in Life, and the others a...

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...