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This is a new p79, right? The reflectors have to be completed, but it should be doable. x = 91, y = 68, rule = B3/S23 52b2o$51bobo$bo51bo$2bo$3o4$37b2o$30b2o5b2o$31bo$31bobo$32b2o5$38b2o$ 37b3o4bo$36bo2bo3bobo$37b2o4bo2bo$38bo4bo2b2o$20bo23b4o$21b2o21bobo2b 2o$20b2o27bobo$37bo11bo$37bo4$38b3o4b2o$35...

I can't put this in trolls because the placed dot is obvious.

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.

When I was coding stuff for my job in Python and had to give random but distinguishable colors, I would essentially have RGB each an integer from 0 to 4, and red be the index mod 5, green increment by 1 every 5 and reset every 25, and the blue increment by 1 every 25 and reset every 125... but the ...

When I was coding stuff for my job in Python and had to give random but distinguishable colors, I would essentially have RGB each an integer from 0 to 4, and red be the index mod 5, green increment by 1 every 5 and reset every 25, and the blue increment by 1 every 25 and reset every 125... but the i...

Loafers don't have colour, as 7 is an odd number.

Partials: p27 x = 20, y = 52, rule = B3/S23 6bo9bo$6b3o5b3o$9bo3bo$8b2o3b2o2$10b3o$9bo3bo2$4bo6bo6bo$3bo5bo3bo5bo$ 3bo3bobo3bobo3bo$4b5o5b5o$5b4o5b4o8$6bo$5b3o8b2o$4b2ob2o6b3o$3b3ob3o5b 4o$4b2ob2o6b3o$5b3o5bo2b2o$2b2o2bo5b3o$2b3o6b2ob2o$b4o5b3ob3o$2b3o6b2o b2o$2b2o8b3o$13bo8$2b4o5b4o$b5o5b5o$o3bobo3...

That page is old. E.g. there are Perl scripts listed. If you copy some RLE in a clipboard and select "File -> Run Clipboard" in Golly, then the program shows a message "Sorry, but Perl scripting is no longer supported." Should it be updated? I've complained about this myself. Actual Perl code shoul...

I agree that the rotor should not be reduced, as it clearly needs to be a wick. If the stator isn't minimal, I'm fine with reducing that as long as doing so doesn't make it impossible to tell how to extend it.

TYCF wrote: ↑

April 12th, 2024, 8:41 am

Is the candlefrobra's rotor the most common period-3 rotor?

Pulsar by a large margin.

Nope — blue stays blue. It needs to change in both directions.

In the Immigration rule, is there a color-changing glider reflector? Someone claimed to have posted one, but while it turns red to blue, blue remains blue and doesn't turn red. (Or whichever two colors are used.)

This is why I distinguish "color" and "colour", by the way.

I was able to delete it but not edit it, so I deleted it.

I had about a 2.5x speedup from my 2019 computer to my 2023 one running Python programs in Golly. It might depend on computer.

My location (Burlington VT), the mountains (NY), and the clouds are all in totality, but the sky in the background has already ended. Taken 2 minutes into 3m20s.

I'm sitting waiting in Burlington, VT.

d/dx wrote: ↑

April 7th, 2024, 2:54 pm

In LifeViewer patterns, why does "b" mean dead and "o" mean alive?

"b" stands for "blank", and "o" is a circle from when dot matrix displays used circles for each pixel rather than squares going all the way to the corner.

Why is Serviettes even notable? Because it comes pre-packaged with Golly? That doesn't really seem like a good reason.

Here are some partials. I couldn't make any of them April Fools trolls because they're not one cell off in a convincing way. p9 x = 14, y = 7, rule = B3/S23 bo5b2o3bo$bo4b2obo2bo$3o2b2ob2ob3o$b2ob2o2b2ob2o$3ob2ob2o2b3o$bo2bob2o 4bo$bo3b2o5bo! p13 x = 11, y = 8, rule = B3/S23 bo7bo$bo7bo$3o5b3o$b2o5b...

When in doubt, check Lifeline Volume 4. There are no 5-cell predecessors of a honey farm.

Nope. The farther-out GPSE is killed by a stray glider just before generation 44 million.

tommyaweosme wrote: ↑

March 30th, 2024, 10:48 am

do objects in conways game of life have gender? no

How can they be cis or trans then?

Not useless — that's our first ever p17 sparker!

Many of the "in other rules" blurbs are "this configuration of cells works in a way that has nothing to do with Life". This one is "it's identical to Life and can be reduced". I think it can be kept.

What about digits? (And since it's a conlang, do we use Arabic numerals or not?)