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Due to a French language video on YouTube getting a whole bunch of views, the Discord server has seen a massive uptick in joins... but the forum has had no new members from April 11 to 24 (there's been exactly one today). I don't think it's the change in anti-bot question, as the first half of April...

Done.

7 cells, 12 gliders
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Golly doesn't yet support INT hexagonal, which makes it a bit harder to work with.

Unfortunately, there isn't really a compressed way to do it, since base64 is already almost as compressed as you can get, and it's 86 characters. Staying with ASCII, using the 95 printable characters only brings this down from 86 to 78 characters, and all possibilities are used so it can't be compre...

If you're already in your userspace, [[/example]] will go to [[User:Tommyaweosme/example]].

The more comprehensive collection would be the forum scrape in mid-2023, not the previous version of b3s23osc.

I've changed b3s23osc in my local copy, but not in GitHub yet, to remove some of the hasslers of more common periods to reduce file size. I would estimate that about 50 to 75 were removed. My criteria for removing: Anything pre-"oscillator revolution" (2021) is kept. Larger bounding boxes are more l...

The five-state rule is much closer to Life than the three-state rule. I would say it's not redundant.

Yes, it was the same one I posted there.

p75 C4 wing hassler x = 33, y = 33, rule = B3/S23 11b3o$11bo2bo$9b2o3bo$9bo2b2o$12bo$10b2o$10b2o$11bo5b3obo$10bo10bo$11b o2bo6b2o6b2o$9bo11bo2bob2o2bo$7b4o3b2o3bo3bob3o3b2o$14b2o12b2o2bo$7bo 3bobobo3bo9bo2bo$7bo8bo3b2obo6b2o$7bo11b3o$14bo3bo$11b3o11bo$b2o6bob2o 3bo8bo$o2bo9bo3bobobo3bo$o2b2o12b2o$2o...

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.