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- 15 minutes ago
- Forum: Patterns
- Topic: Thread For Your Useless Discoveries
- Replies: 4542
- Views: 1756279
Re: Thread For Your Useless Discoveries
Period 29,561,532,000 oscillator: [...] Not a higher period, but shows a different possibility : #C period 683455080, bounding box 256x247 #C Pulse dividers from https://conwaylife.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=183268#p183268 x = 256, y = 247, rule = B3/S23 19b2o82b2o$19bo2b2o79bo2b2o$20bobo81bobo$7bo...
- Today, 4:50 am
- Forum: Other Cellular Automata
- Topic: Rule request thread
- Replies: 976
- Views: 385599
Re: Rule request thread
Rule request: TBlockLife but cells survive regardless of other cell types. #C Ruletable untested, appended after the pattern x = 32, y = 32, rule = testing .A.BA.4AB.B2ABAB.3BABA2.A.AB$3.BA3.A.B.B.BABAB.B.AB2.2AB$A.BA.A2.2B5. AB.A3.B.B.A.3B$.A.A.B3.2A.2A.BA3.A6.A.2B$BA2.A.BA.A.B3.AB.BAB.BA3.B2. A$2...
- Today, 2:13 am
- Forum: The Sandbox
- Topic: Challenges
- Replies: 325
- Views: 148136
Re: Challenges
In the rule B3-cjq4acekqwz5ack6i/S2cin3-jk4-z5acejk6in, find (or prove they don't exist): a) an orthogonal spaceship under 30 cells b) a diagonal spaceship under 30 cells c) an infinite growth Here is a p3 orthogonal c/3 spaceship (found with qfind 2.3) #C ./qfind -r B3-cjq4acekqwz5ack6i/S2cin3-jk4...
- Today, 1:37 am
- Forum: The Sandbox
- Topic: oca critic
- Replies: 1
- Views: 70
Re: oca critic
How about MargSingRot?
confocaloid wrote: ↑April 14th, 2024, 2:57 pmCode: Select all
x = 10, y = 10, rule = M0,2,8,3,1,5,6,7,4,9,10,11,12,13,14,15:T80,60 2o3bo$3obo2b3o$obo2bo3bo$obo2bo3bo$bob5o$2o2b2obo$b2obo2bobo$o4bobo$o b3obo$2bobo3bo!
- Today, 12:53 am
- Forum: Bugs & Errors
- Topic: Golly bugs
- Replies: 110
- Views: 19472
Re: Golly bugs
Currently Lua scripts can use the scripting command "g.savechanges(query, message)" to show a sort of a confirmation dialog, where there are three buttons (yes, no, cancel). Neither of the buttons aborts the script immediately; instead, clicking on one of buttons returns the corresponding value. AFA...
- Yesterday, 11:40 pm
- Forum: LifeWiki Discussion
- Topic: Rule definition terminology
- Replies: 86
- Views: 4708
Re: Rule definition terminology
LifeWiki:Style guide says: The purpose of LifeWiki is to provide encyclopedia-style content describing Conway's Game of Life and similar cellular automata. All articles should be informative and targeted at the site's audience. Information that is only of interest to the writer or to other editors ...
- Yesterday, 9:32 pm
- Forum: LifeWiki Discussion
- Topic: Rule definition terminology
- Replies: 86
- Views: 4708
Re: Rule definition terminology
Several earlier posts I think it goes both ways. A birth transition is a cell turning on. A birth condition describes when a birth transition happens. They are paired together very tightly; every birth transition that ever happens happens because of a birth condition. Something like "B3a" is both a ...
- Yesterday, 9:18 pm
- Forum: LifeWiki Discussion
- Topic: Rule definition terminology
- Replies: 86
- Views: 4708
Re: Rule definition terminology
As far as I can tell, I'm on the same side [...] You are an active side in this entire debate. That means that you cannot yourself determine whether you're right or wrong, and cannot determine what should be done in this situation. I suggest that you should undo your edit that added the redlink, an...
- Yesterday, 8:53 pm
- Forum: LifeWiki Discussion
- Topic: Rule definition terminology
- Replies: 86
- Views: 4708
Re: Rule definition terminology
Nobody has stepped up to fix the obvious redlink and inconsistency in OCA:HighFlock . "The obvious redlink" was created by you, while participating in this very dispute, and perhaps as an intermediate step to gain upper hand in this dispute. There were no other links to the same target at the time,...
- Yesterday, 8:22 pm
- Forum: LifeWiki Discussion
- Topic: Rule definition terminology
- Replies: 86
- Views: 4708
Re: Rule definition terminology
No matter how many times you restate your personal preferences , the most productive thing to do remains to wait until someone else , an uninvolved editor, decides to go and fix the actual problems with LifeWiki articles. How do you propose that a decision should be made on whether to implement your...
- Yesterday, 8:11 pm
- Forum: LifeWiki Discussion
- Topic: Rule definition terminology
- Replies: 86
- Views: 4708
Re: Rule definition terminology
How would you suggest that the decision should be made, about which technical definition of "transition" should be documented on the LifeWiki? The word 'transition', as used on these forums, is local forum jargon. It's not a technical term, and doesn't have a single well-defined universal meaning. ...
- Yesterday, 8:03 pm
- Forum: LifeWiki Discussion
- Topic: Rule definition terminology
- Replies: 86
- Views: 4708
Re: Rule definition terminology
So now the question is: are there in fact any uses of "transition" on the LifeWiki, where the article's meaning would be more intuitive if they were replaced with "condition"? OCA:tlife and Hensel notation are two examples of pages, where the word 'transition' is currently used in an incorrect and ...
- Yesterday, 6:29 pm
- Forum: The Sandbox
- Topic: memes
- Replies: 81
- Views: 14056
- Yesterday, 5:16 pm
- Forum: LifeWiki Discussion
- Topic: Rule definition terminology
- Replies: 86
- Views: 4708
Re: Rule definition terminology
I'll add that the wider Life/CA community does in fact speak about conditions. (Conditions for a cell to be born in the next generation; conditions for a cell to survive; conditions for a cell to be alive in the next generation; in general, conditions for something to happen -- the underlying idea r...
- Yesterday, 4:04 pm
- Forum: Patterns
- Topic: Thread for your speculative elementary conduits
- Replies: 276
- Views: 36616
Re: Thread for your speculative elementary conduits
Would this be useful? Connectable to HF95P: x = 45, y = 36, rule = LifeHistory 5.4B26.2A$6.4B20.2A3.2A$7.4B19.A8.A$8.4B16.A.A2.7A$9.4B14.A.2A.A2.B$ 10.4B7.2A4.A4.AB4A$11.4B5.B2AB4.3A.A.BAB.A$12.4B5.3B6.A.2AB2.2A$13.4B 3.B.B8.4B$14.4B.6B7.4B$15.10B5.10B$7.2A7.12B2.11B$8.A8.12B.12B$8.A.AB 6.23B2D$9.2...
- Yesterday, 3:41 pm
- Forum: LifeWiki Discussion
- Topic: Rule definition terminology
- Replies: 86
- Views: 4708
Re: Rule definition terminology
I don't think I have seen mentioned the fact that websites like Lifewiki are generally descriptive, rather than prescriptive (eg. citing other sources for info). The problem with this is that the words/phrases are not synonyms. 'Condition', 'transition', 'transition rule' are all used, with differe...
- Yesterday, 3:36 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Thread for basic questions
- Replies: 4793
- Views: 1229341
Re: Thread for basic questions
Anyone knows what the reference to CGOL actually means? https://gilkalai.wordpress.com/ It seems those gliders are one-dimensional moving structures in a bitstring with "wraparound" across the boundary: https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.03918 The authors interpret the 1s in a bitstring as "opening bracket...
- Yesterday, 4:05 am
- Forum: Other Cellular Automata
- Topic: Human-readable alternative to base64-encoded MAP rulestrings?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 300
Re: Human-readable alternative to base64-encoded MAP rulestrings?
Hensel notation has the exact same issues and nobody complains. Hensel notation does have some of the same issues. Specifically there are 13 letters to be remembered, along with the definedness and meaning of each letter for each number of alive neighbours from 1 through 4. (5, 6, 7 don't have to b...
- Yesterday, 12:56 am
- Forum: Bugs & Errors
- Topic: Golly bugs
- Replies: 110
- Views: 19472
- Yesterday, 12:02 am
- Forum: Other Cellular Automata
- Topic: Miscellaneous Discoveries in Other Cellular Automata
- Replies: 4017
- Views: 943933
Re: Miscellaneous Discoveries in Other Cellular Automata
btw can anyone show if a p3 exists or not? I think the statorless p3 works here. The differences from Life only show when a cell survives enough times in a row. Many periodic patterns would also work in variants with fewer cellstates / lower maximum age (with the period changed accordingly). Some o...
- April 25th, 2024, 6:52 pm
- Forum: LifeWiki Discussion
- Topic: Rule definition terminology
- Replies: 86
- Views: 4708
Re: Rule definition terminology
That paragraph should be rewritten to say instead... I think that article should continue to refer to B2a as a transition. Why? Do you think that's particularly intuitive or readable, from the viewpoint of a LifeWiki reader / beginner? The word 'transition' is supposed to be a word for something th...
- April 25th, 2024, 6:17 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Thread for basic questions
- Replies: 4793
- Views: 1229341
Re: Thread for basic questions
Crossposting, due to (unfortunate) lack of productive discussion in PM. I don't believe there's anything personal/private in the quoted parts. No matter how many times you restate your personal preferences, the most productive thing to do remains to wait until someone else , an uninvolved editor, de...
- April 25th, 2024, 6:02 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Thread for basic questions
- Replies: 4793
- Views: 1229341
Re: Thread for basic questions
If the new version has such-and-such wonderful new features, then it seems like the obvious thing for the Golly Gang to do will be to take the new-feature code (since the license says the source has to remain available) and put it into the free version immediately. Not necessarily "the obvious thin...
- April 25th, 2024, 5:09 pm
- Forum: LifeWiki Discussion
- Topic: Rule definition terminology
- Replies: 86
- Views: 4708
Re: Rule definition terminology
I think it goes both ways. A birth transition is a cell turning on. A birth condition describes when a birth transition happens. They are paired together very tightly; every birth transition that ever happens happens because of a birth condition. Something like "B3a" is both a birth condition in th...
- April 25th, 2024, 4:16 pm
- Forum: LifeWiki Discussion
- Topic: Rule definition terminology
- Replies: 86
- Views: 4708
Re: Rule definition terminology
What would you suggest as the content of a "transition" disambiguation page? In my previous post, I already listed three meanings to be listed on such page, if it is created. All of them did occur in past discussions. If one wants to document the word then one needs to list them all. the first of t...