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After discussion with dvgrn, I have decided to do 20 edits about this spread throughout next week. Stay tuned, and don’t be afraid to stop me. Haycat2009, please stop your edits for now . You have already made well over "20 edits", and there is already discussion regarding whether or not those edit...

p62 orthogonal 6c/31 xp2_151 puffer, two engines x = 87, y = 24, rule = B2ce3-ceqr4iqtw5-ceqr6ce/S2ce3-ceqr4aikqtw5-ceqr6ce 48bo11bo11bo$48bobo9bobo9bobo$48bo11bo11bo$55bobo26bo$47bo11bo11bo5b2o 4b3o$45bobo5bo5bo5bobobobo10b2ob2o$47bo11bo11bo5b2o4b3o$55bobo26bo$47b o12bo11bo$47b4obo7bobo9bobo$47bo5b...

Also not in Life: x = 67, y = 61, rule = B3-ceqr4aikqtw5-ceqr6ce/S2ce3-ceqr4acikqtw5-cqr6cei7e8 41bo20bo$39b5o16b5o$38b2obob2o14b2obob2o$38bo2bo2bo14bo2bo2bo$37b4ob4o 12b4ob4o$38bo2bo2bo14bo2bo2bo$38b2obob2o14b2obob2o$39b5o16b5o$41bo20bo 2$50b4o$48b8o$48bob4obo$47b10o$47b10o$47b10o$47b10o$48bob4obo$...

the block is the only known strict still life where every cell has three neighbours: [...] can it be proven or disproven whether there exist other strict still lives where all cells have three ON neighbours? [...] [...] Crossposting a proof from another thread. Block is [...] the only finite strict...

Two p30 oscillators interact symmetrically, becoming a p49 oscillator: x = 12, y = 18, rule = B3-ceqr4aikqtw5-ceqr6ce/S2ce3-ceqr4acikqtw5-cqr6cei7e8 bo$3o$b2o13$9b2o$9b3o$10bo! #C [[ ZOOM 8 THEME MCell GRID ]] I'm currently running apgsearch on this ruleset , it looks interesting. There might be a ...

[R]History is indeed designed so that "state 5" means "a marked alive cell that was alive since generation 0, never changing its state". So Golly works correctly here, the block should become state-3. LifeViewer implements it differently, due to a performance optimization. See this post: https://con...

EDIT: reposted elsewhere: viewtopic.php?p=195406#p195406

[...] I expect that people will have a difficult time answering the "what are the exact proposed changes?" question because they just might not know. They would like symmetry information in infoboxes because, well, why not? That information can be useful to have, and having it on the wiki in a stan...

Consider any still life and an OFF cell in the same universe in generation 0. Now let the still life be destroyed by any combination of fewer than N gliders originating from infinity. We define the OFF cell to be in the N-shadow of the still life if, no matter the combination of gliders, the OFF ce...

Two p30 oscillators interact symmetrically, becoming a p49 oscillator: x = 12, y = 18, rule = B3-ceqr4aikqtw5-ceqr6ce/S2ce3-ceqr4acikqtw5-cqr6cei7e8 bo$3o$b2o13$9b2o$9b3o$10bo! #C [[ ZOOM 8 THEME MCell GRID ]] I'm currently running apgsearch on this ruleset , it looks interesting. There might be a ...

Multiposting alert

LittleLWSS wrote: ↑

October 3rd, 2024, 10:45 pm

LittleLWSS wrote: ↑

October 3rd, 2024, 10:47 pm

LittleLWSS wrote: ↑

October 3rd, 2024, 10:52 pm

Everyone here can "easily make a mess" in any CA. That doesn't add anything to the notability. Similarly to an earlier thread you made , this thread is completely unnecessary, since apparently there was no serious attempt to determine whether this particular CA is noteworthy enough to deserve a thre...

What you mean by "the original article", exactly? Hello, I'm back. I wish I can be trusted again. I will help you fix any errors in the original article. [...] I oppose, considering that you are continuing to post non-notable stuff ( here and https://conwaylife.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=6723 )...

[...] x = 15, y = 18, rule = B3-c4kqtwy/S235n 5$4b2o$4b2o5$7bo2bo$6bo3bobo$4bob2o5bo$3bo5b2obo$4bobo3bo$6bo2bo! Relatively clean puffrake (I think the speed is (51,9)c/177), possibly useful as a component: x = 303, y = 440, rule = B3-c4kqtwy/S235n 10b2o8bo$11b3o6bo4bo$20bo4b2o$12b2o10bob2o$7b2o3bo1...

p44 mod11 oscillator, p30 mod30 orthogonal c/15 spaceship, p42 mod21 diagonal c/21 spaceship in an apgsearchable CA:

[...] Long story short, most people get bored fairly quickly by discussions once everyone has said what they have to say once -- and then they simply refuse to participate in any way once the discussion turns into an endless stonewalling effort. [...] Unfortunately, your posts here fail to address ...

Yes Coolout Conjecture is also affected by the same issue under discussion. In all these cases, infoboxes are confusing and misleading. ("Pattern type: Problem" -- what that is supposed to mean? If anything, the pattern is (part of) a solution to a certain problem, but not the problem itself. "Symme...

hotdogPi wrote: ↑

October 3rd, 2024, 12:59 pm

They're about specific statements on the article associated with the talk page that need to be clarified or checked for accuracy.

At least second linked message is apparently misplaced (I did not find any mentions of tHighLife in the current revision of OCA:HighLife).

Certain questions/messages that were left on the wiki, look like basic questions to me. I think such questions should go on the forums instead, to let more people participate in discussions / increase likelihood of getting meaningful answers. Two most recent examples of such messages are https://con...

[...] Controversial decisions need baby steps. Controversial issues need discussion regarding what exactly needs to be done, until there is some observable agreement on what exactly can and should be done. The edits that were already made are already problematic (see preceding posts). Making more o...

I would definitely prefer to wait for more discussion, and wait for more observable evidence of people agreeing on what exactly needs to be done, before doing any further batches of edits on these issues. Regarding two recent edits: https://conwaylife.com/w/index.php?title=Unique_father_problem&curi...

[...] and i bet most of the members of our Community are completely and totally un-aware of it... Right, most people here are unaware of it. (And in general most people are unaware of CGoL / CA.) However, the aim of "increasing awareness" implies helping people to understand things (deeper than jus...

Large-scale changes definitely need observable consensus.

If someone is planning to edit "a few dozen [...] pages" at once, then it is no longer "experimental edits".

dvgrn wrote: ↑

October 3rd, 2024, 7:20 am

[...] experimental edits [...]
[...] a few dozen still-life pages -- [...]

The RLE in your preceding post here uses significant components / parts that were created by people other than you. It would be really nice if those sources were mentioned and linked, and if large patterns that are trivial combinations of already known components weren't posted explicitly (when it i...

[...] PLEASE! HEXAGONAL ISOTROPIC NOTATION SUPPORTION! [...] Writing ALL CAPS forum posts is unnecessary. (Although I agree that it would be nice to see the existing rulestring notation for two-state isotropic cellular automata with honeycomb neighbourhood supported in a future release of Golly. As...