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An old 58c/748 rake x = 172, y = 73, rule = B2i3aijnr4cknqz5iy6ae8/S2-n3-a4aceiy8 116bo$115bobob2o$113b2o4bo$112bo5bo2bo$112b3ob2o2b2o$115bo3bo$115b2ob 2o$115b2o$47bo$46bobo$47bo8$151b3o3$63b2o$62b2o39b2o$64bo37bobo$102b2o $159bo$158b3o$157b2o2bo$158bo2b2o$156b2o3bo$154b2o2bo$148bo6b2o$147b4o 2bobo$...

Moving older relevant posts: [...] Expected behaviour: the program quickly determines that the pattern is a p16 oscillator. Actual behaviour: the program hangs seemingly forever, slowly consuming memory. Can anyone reproduce this? The issue seems to be specific to the above RLE. (My input file initi...

Why not just make my name for this rule, Hochfakultät des Konfokaloid , an alternative name? Because (a) It's honestly ridiculous. Nobody (including me) will want to use it. (b) It refers to a specific person, which would be already enough to reject it. (c) A person who considered this ruleset earl...

The discussion of names is off-topic here, and I think fairly ridiculous. Names of rulesets shouldn't refer to specific people. Just because someone explored some ruleset, does not mean it's "their" CA. CA things belong to the CA community, and to everyone who is interested in them. Traditionally if...

A modification of Factorio ("HighFactorio"?), in which soups can evolve for thousands of generations without either quickly growing or quickly shrinking. Larger soups may eventually explode. cata This rule is about 3-4 times slower to apgsearch than ordinary Factorio. I propose calling this rule [....

C_R_116 wrote: ↑

Yesterday, 7:57 pm

sailfence

salience

Currently wxfile.cpp#RuleCanBeFound just shows a Warning that says the user needs to put the .rule file into their local rules folder. I suggest to replace the modal Warning dialog with a modal Confirmation dialog. Show a modified message to the user, and let them decide what they want to do. I see ...

an engineered tub factory, using R89 / HR89H and Snark64 x = 84, y = 55, rule = B3/S23 53b2o$28b2o24bo$29bo13b2o6b3o$29bobo11b2o6bo$6b2o3b2o17b2o$5bo2bobobo$ 4bob3obo$4bo4bob4o$2o3b3obobo2bo65bo$obo4b2o69b3o$2bo58b2o15bo$2b2o26b o30b2o15bo$2o4bo23bo50bobo$o2b4o23b3o$b2o29bo$3b2o$3bo$4bo53b2o$b3o54b ...

Just for the record, in my day-to-day Golly workflow I use File > Run Clipboard very regularly, especially when I'm test-running code snippets. I've even mapped the backtick key in the upper left corner of the keyboard to File > Run Clipboard, to make it easier to access the command. [...] Well I c...

What patterns can be improved by new discoveries? Anything engineered might be improved in some way if a new component / reaction is discovered. Anything elementary might be improved in some sense (by providing a variant / alternative) if a variant is found that is faster/smaller/cheaper to constru...

This would be a nice H-to-G on my mind if the Behive can be easily erased : (Edit : It would be a NE6T42) x = 30, y = 41, rule = LifeHistory 9$14.A$13.A.A$13.A.A$11.2A.A.2A$10.A3.A3.A$10.A.2A.2A.A$11.A.A.A.A$ 13.4B$12.4B$10.7B$7.2B.8B$6.12B$6.4BE6B$4.6BEBE4B$2.B2D5B3E2B2D$.BD2B D6BE3B2D$2.B2D10BDB$...

You want a nicer error message? If people believe the feature "File -> Run Clipboard" is useful and should be kept, then I think better error reporting and additional "safety guards" would help. If the clipboard data doesn't look like valid supported script code, show a message that says so, and re...

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Copying each of the following RLEs into clipboard and doing "File -> Run Clipboard" causes the error message appended after that RLE. x = 1, y = 1, rule = B3/S23 o! x = 1, y = 1, rule = B3/S23 ^^^^^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax. Maybe you meant '==' or ':=' instead of '='? x = 2, y = 1, rule = B3/S23...

[…] There is a more general version of (7+6N)G-to-H I would believe, starting with: [...] [...] Shown with five Eaters 2 so it's a multiplication by 7+6x5=37. I think that works safely with any glider stream guaranteeing at least 96 ticks between consecutive pulses. One can also stop growth by a ea...

Here is a workaround RLE for the p40 oscillator from previous post x = 44, y = 44, rule = B3/S23 2b2o$bobo30b2o5b2o$bobob2o23b2obob3o2bo2bo$2bobobo9bo14bobo4bo2b3o$4bo bob2o6bobo11bo2b4ob3o$3b2obobobo3bo5bo6bo2bobo2b2o4bo$2bo3bo4bo8bobo4b 4ob2o3b5o$2bob2o6bo12b2o7bo$b2ob2o5b2o11bo2b6o5b2o$bo2bo2bobo...

TYCF wrote: ↑

April 23rd, 2024, 12:33 pm

viewtopic.php?f=11&t=6111 OCA DOTY 2022 Voting

This is for those cases when you feed a RLE with one reasonably-low-period object into apgsearch compiled in a "test_stdin" mode, and apgsearch refuses to see it as a single object. --- (compiled for b36ns237c/ror_stdin_test) #C xp32_y24473jssxcczy5gjgw4aicwgy2eoozwccwo4k8y63w1176611zggccsgg10oy0790...

H. H. P. M. P. Cole wrote: ↑

February 29th, 2024, 2:44 am

(I have time-travelled from 2050 again)

Year 2049: hey, look, yet another p101 knightship gun in Factorio++34, accidentally found while testing EnumPattEvo v93b4 with input from a quantum foam generator. Probably it's time to do some serious investigation beyond 8-bit cellstate values?

Are there finite oscillators querying B7c, B8, S5e, S6c, S6e, S6k, S6n? While LLSSS could conceivably provide negative answers here, the first three I looked at all have positive answers, even just among p3 oscillators. [...] S6c, S6e, S6k, and S6n all still perhaps TBD but it's rather tedious to j...

eRroR_6o6 wrote: ↑

April 22nd, 2024, 11:03 pm

78. when your rule is stable on C1 but is basically Seeds on other symmetries

Sometimes it's the other way round. Try apgsearching b36ns237c in the C1 census. I would be surprised if you manage to submit more than two or three C1 hauls using unmodified official apgsearch.

For some reason when I identified it in the Discord using Caterer, it said it only worked in two rules. Weird. I don't know how Caterer works, and I have only a vague understanding of what it is. For clarity (to avoid being accidentally misleading), whenever one is saying things like "this pattern ...

p305 glider gun with bounding box 69-by-65 (down from 83-by-64): x = 69, y = 65, rule = B3/S23 6b2o6b2o$ob2obobo6bobob2obo$2obobo10bobob2o$6bo8bo$5b2o8b2o$5b4o4b4o$ 8bo4bo$8b6o2$3b2o12b2o$3b2ob2o6b2ob2o$7b8o$8b6o$9b4o4$10b2o$b2o7b2o7b 2o$2bo16bo$2bobo12bobo$3b2o4b2o6b2o10bob2o$8bobo18b2obo$8b2o$27b...

Well, when I tried the above test patterns, my expectations were that LifeViewer will search for a @RULE header in which the name does match the name specified in the RLE header. In other words, I expected that the first pattern will work correctly (@RULE name matches the name given in the RLE heade...

If a pattern was already posted in a more specific existing thread (e.g. the dedicated forum thread for some well-explored CA), then usually it is better to avoid reposting it in a more general thread (like MDiOCA or TFYUCA). For example people who are interested in HighLife (B36/S23) are more likel...