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Here's some code I use to test it. Works fine on macOS but haven't yet tried it on Windows/Linux: local g = golly() g.show( g.query("Do something?", "Click on a button or hit the escape key to Cancel.") ) g.show( g.query("Try again?", "Only Yes or No.", "Yes", "No", "") ) g.show( g.query("Try yet a...

The LW:NB is still confusing that I couldn't even know if a pattern is notable. I think the important part is this: A topic for which this criterion is deemed to have been met by consensus is usually worthy of notice. Verifiable facts and content that are not deemed notable may be appropriate for i...

Helping intuitive understanding is much more important than "documenting existing common usage".

If readers are confused by counterintuitive/vague/ambiguous terminology, then no amount of lexicographic activity will fix that.

I think this example helps to show the difference between the forums and the LifeWiki. Some people (not me) argue that there's no difference. Well, here it is. Probably "There is a clean 1D replicator that works by toggling 2 birth conditions in the rule which has a chaotic 2D replicator." Again, i ...

You have to understand that the forums is not LifeWiki, and that forums posts are not supposed to be read by everyone. [...] You did not answer my question. How would you explain the same ideas to a LifeWiki reader? I knew that the forums are not LifeWiki. I said that myself several times. https://...

This 2D chaotic replicator: x = 2, y = 4, rule = B3-y4ek5y/S2-i34t6c o$o$2o! ...is only 2 transitions away from this 1D clean replicator: x = 2, y = 4, rule = B3-y4e5y6i/S2-i34t6c o$2o$o! Can you please define and expain what you mean by that, exactly? What would you write if you wanted to explain ...

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herschel based p120 glider gun, can be made double-barreled by removing eater

Known. Simkin glider gun

[...] The sandbox isn't all about jokes, and it becomes very annoying [...] CA-related jokes are perfectly fine, as long as people are not attacking each other and everyone can distinguish between reality and fiction. I think this particular joke is fine, fun and CA-related. At least it was (before...

This is going over earlier comments from several forum threads, related to updating the pattern collection. Thanks for doing the survey! I'll be reserving some more hours this weekend for going through this and doing more checkins. I think a number of corrections and suggestions that were posted ea...

Factorio

[...] B/S is Life-like in a sense, while not in another sense. [...] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life-like_cellular_automaton If you read through various forum posts and chats, then different people use the same words and phrases with different meanings in different discussions. However, LifeWiki...

next rule posted in this thread is episode 9 x = 108, y = 59, rule = R5,C0,M1,S34..58,B34..45,NM 51b6o$51b6o$50b8o$50b8o$49b10o$49b3o4b3o$49b3o4b3o$50b2o4b2o$50b2o4b2o $51b6o$53b2o10$4b4o92b4o$3b6o90b6o$2b8o88b8o$b9o88b9o$5o2b4o86b4o2b5o $5o4b2o86b2o4b5o$b4o4bo88bo4b4o$b5o2b2o88b2o2b5o$2b4ob2o90b2o...

The "green writeup" is misleading in several ways, beginning from the first sentence. (1) The word 'transition' is not a single well-defined useful term. It is a jargon word, used here on these forums, with several different meanings in different contexts. I already listed some of the existing meani...

Here's the writeup I mentioned yesterday, that could be a starting point for a LifeWiki page. [...] Feedback is welcome! [...] Feedback (regarding your idea to make a page for the word) was already provided in previous discussion. You ignored that feedback. I see no reason to expect that you won't ...

I acknowledge that I've received that feedback from you -- and I don't think that it's appropriate for you to keep repeating it. I don't think it is appropriate for you to keep flooding terminology discussion threads with your long posts that are trying to "oversee" the discussion without actually ...

I think that was proven in 2021 viewtopic.php?p=125496#p125496

The community doesn't really need you "looking at the discussion so far". There is no "we". There is only your opinion (stated and restated again and again) about what is supposed to be "consensus". You cannot provide objective summaries on this topic. You got involved in the disagreement from the s...

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...

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...

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...

tommyaweosme wrote: ↑

April 26th, 2024, 1:11 pm

suggest rules for me to cover

How about MargSingRot?

confocaloid wrote: ↑

April 14th, 2024, 2:57 pm

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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!

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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...