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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: ↑

Yesterday, 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...

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,...

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...

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. ...

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 ...

tommyaweosme wrote: ↑

Yesterday, 3:32 pm

> what do you think of when the phrase ca viewer
CAViewer

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Andrew wrote: ↑

April 24th, 2024, 9:04 pm

Actually, it's probably time to remove the optional Perl support from Golly.

Compiled and run successfully under Ubuntu 22.04. utils.h, utils.cpp still refer to Perl, is that intended?

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Lifeviewer currently throws an error when trying to view the patterns in this post , despite previously being able to do so with no problem. Here is the first snippet from the linked post, modified to replace the long rulestring with "example" both in the RLE header and in the appended @RULE header...