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more results from continued progress upon User:DroneBetter/qfind results by myself, Darren Li (using a supercomputing cluster to which they have access) and wwei23 since 2024-03-03 I found the thinnest possible c/6, at 9 columns (though minpop 128, whereas the odd xq6_daa6vgzckkov3z1x1 is 32), here ...

In my remarks upon User talk:H. H. P. M. P. Cole/ConwayLife 2050 , I formalised one of their conjectures, Is there a pair of constants c₀,c₁, such that for any synthesisable still life, there exists a sequence of constellations (with the last being the still life itself), such that a set of ≤ c₀ gli...

I will give a timeline of the events of the p49 bouncer loop page 1999-08-01: Noam Elkies finds 440-cell pipsquirter-based glider reflector loop 2003-01-24: Karel Suhajda finds a new pipsquirter, which reduces it to 400 cells 2009-09-14: In Talk:400P49 , Matthias Merzenich decides that the pages 440...

Failed 20c/50 puffer: x = 26, y = 3, rule = B2in3-q4w/S23 3o20b3o$obo20bobo$3o20b3o! I wonder if 2c/5 spaceships could stabilize it There is no need! Would this 5-cell pattern count? Around 160000 generations it spawns a puffer to the right, but I don't know if it stabilizes. x = 6, y = 1, rule = B...

I created a new section in my userspace page, User:DroneBetter/qfind results#B35678/S4678_(Holstein) , in which I found minimal-width odd- and even-symmetric spaceships for c/3, c/5 (for which the width-15 odd is in fact 100 cells, as opposed to the known width-14 even's 110), 2c/6 and c/7 (new spee...

on the Saturday of March 9 in the year of our lord 2024, I was given a new laptop with a 12-core i7-9850H and 32GiB of RAM for free by the owner of the programming club I used to go to, who instructed one of the present students to find one (amongst the many donated to them) with an NVIDIA GPU (sinc...

On 2023-10-31, I found User:AforAmpere/2x2 , that they had not edited since its creation on 2017-12-18, and decided to do my best at fulfilling the vision in which it was begun (adding more rows for periods with known upper bounds from glider.db s), then on 2024-02-23, having learned that the reason...

I have a few results on the elementary side of things to share firstly, four new speeds (each found with ikpx2) (1,1)c/5 (and tagalong/backend variant thereof), minpop 146 and 17 half-diagonals wide (as measured by envelope trail) x = 58, y = 62, rule = B36/S245 40bo12bo$40b4o9b4o$37bobobob2o5bobobo...

Moreover, the 14-bit octapole has yet to appear in a C1 soup. However, on January 1, 2024, Charity Engine found an occurrence in a nonconducive symmetry, C2_2, which does not depend upon C2_2-specific reactions for a great majority of the 4696 generations up to the octapole's formation x = 31, y = ...

As another idea for future endeavours, could your program be very efficient at enumerating oscillators of specific period without the constraint of volatility 1? Mark Niemiec's Life Object Counts page (which I have now copied into LifeWiki:Object counts , albeit containing only proven values and exp...

Well, there *is* lag for me. Besides that, multiple animations on a page are fairly distracting (and those spaceships don't really need to be animated). Actually, coming to think of it, upon closer inspection it seems it does have drops in framerate during webpage scrolling, I suppose I have gotten...

It has been proven that B23 rules without S0 cannot support spaceships,[citation needed] however examples are known in the ten rules B2367(8)/S2467(8), B235(78)/S14678, and B2357(8)/S3678 (where transitions in brackets are optional). All known are photons. Both statements cannot be true. I am very ...

https://conwaylife.com/w/index.php?title=OCA:Eppstein%27s_Most_Wanted&oldid=145602 Multiple issues, including: Too many animated viewers on a page. When there are many viewers on a single page, they should not generally be animated, to avoid browser lag. There is no lag for me. Links / markup shoul...

https://conwaylife.com/w/index.php?diff=145576&oldid=119237 Undiscussed change to the template; likely to create future problems with consistency. I think should be reverted, until (whatever the bigger idea behind that change is) is discussed here on the forums and until/unless there's some observa...

Edit (2024-02-11): unfortunately more nearly-SPAM edits and edit summaries from the same account: https://conwaylife.com/w/index.php?diff=145534&oldid=145142 You don't need to say "from the same account," we are talking to each other here, you can refer to me as DroneBetter (or less formally, 'Dron...

An edit war in https://conwaylife.com/w/index.php?diff=145531&oldid=131196 User:DroneBetter readded content which I previously reverted ( https://conwaylife.com/w/index.php?diff=131196&oldid=131195 ). I thought your reversion was only cautionary, not out of any kind of fundamental reason (since you...

I have gotten much use out of this, for both reducing my own rudimentary oscillator search results (to find that their rotors are already parts of known oscillators) and perusing old forgotten billiard table oscillators on the wiki to see whether there is a reduction no-one thought to note (which wo...

I think I would like to know what is the intended target audience for those pages. They contain lots of formulas, with little or no explanation as to why all this belongs to LifeWiki. Some parts look like SPAM. Are you writing for other people? As an example, the edit https://conwaylife.com/w/index...

Following your proof of 30P5H2V0's minimality, could you try searching odd-symmetric 2c/5 in order to prove 44P5H2V0's (since it is less than double 30)? (Unfortunately, the smallest known nontrivial even-symmetric one is 70 cells, but you could perhaps at least disprove the existence of a ≤58-cell ...

Keith, your program is capable of enumerating oscillators by population as well as spaceships, right? Does it incur the same exponential slowdown with period when they're stationary? I ask because there seem to be no such enumerations for oscillators in recent history beyond period 2 in 2018 (for A0...

Just for the record, that chronology misses a question from AforAmpere (2023-09-10): Why is this called the 'logarithmic replicator'? x = 19, y = 3, rule = B36/S245 6o7b6o$o4bo7bo4bo$b4o9b4o! As far as I can tell, the population hangs at a constant at the minima (approximately), and sqrt(t) at the ...

may I introduce 58P6H1V0 ( xq6_4ah2gq131o0o131qg2ha4zy279bxb97zy318hch81 , also the first known spaceship of its speed :-) x = 21, y = 15, rule = B3/S12 2bo3b3o3b3o3bo$bobobobo5bobobobo$o19bo$bo3bo3bobo3bo3bo$2bob2o3bobo3b2obo$6b3o3b3o$6bobo3bobo$6bo7bo$7b2o3b2o2$7bobobobo2$10bo$8bobobo$9bobo! maxim...

I am not sure whether this will be listened to, since (as far as I know) there are no extensions used thus far, but I will begin. In my time editing the LifeWiki, I have several times been burned by my own hubris and had a Firefox/operating system crash that caused my next loading of an open tab wit...

On 2024-01-03 , FWKnightship found the first seminatural p8 oscillator in a C4_4 soup, xp8_y3364jzggwgwd22044o4woc4z463w4344088mw1w11zy5p4co (consisting of an active region hassled by four xp4_18f s), which raises the lowest unseminatural period to 10 x = 20, y = 20, rule = B3/S12 7bo2bo$7b2obo$8b2o...

Confocal told me not to put my discoveries on the wiki directly, but to make a forum post with them for citation thereupon, here it is (I used ikpx2 (and occasionally rlifesrc for completing some partials) for all of these, the last embed shown here took me about 1.5GiB of backups over the course of...