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- Today, 1:03 am
- Forum: Scripts
- Topic: qfind - a spaceship search program
- Replies: 137
- Views: 67542
Re: qfind - a spaceship search program
Argh, I should've waited for it to load the last dump file before ending it (They take hours to do so). BUT, I know that the total depth was 249 when it gave me the result. Generally, I think it's a good idea to redirect output to a file by adding " > filename.txt" to the end of the line like in th...
- Yesterday, 11:27 pm
- Forum: Bugs & Errors
- Topic: general error
- Replies: 3
- Views: 62
Re: general error
I think that just happens sometimes. It usually doesn't last long. If it's a persistent problem for you, it would be helpful if you could give more details such as a copy-paste or screenshot of the error message, which operating system and browser you use, and when or how often the error seems to oc...
- Yesterday, 11:11 pm
- Forum: Scripts
- Topic: qfind - a spaceship search program
- Replies: 137
- Views: 67542
Re: qfind - a spaceship search program
I used qfind v2.3 to find this. I typed this into the command line: qfind.exe -p 7 -y 1 -w 11 -s o -d c7ospk -e initrows.txt -t 80 Whereas initrows.txt is this: ........... ........... ........... ........... ........... ........... ........... .....o..... ........... ........... ........... .........
- Yesterday, 3:43 pm
- Forum: Patterns
- Topic: Spaceship Discussion Thread
- Replies: 3119
- Views: 1124476
Re: Spaceship Discussion Thread
Look what I found! Awesome! And way more compact than I was expecting. I can't help but wonder if there's a bug in a search program. Notice that the original partial has a higher logical width than the completion, ignoring the frontend itself. x = 51, y = 48, rule = LifeHistory 3.5A5.5A15.5A5.5A$.2...
- April 16th, 2024, 2:16 pm
- Forum: Patterns
- Topic: Oscillator Discussion Thread
- Replies: 4490
- Views: 1678623
Re: Oscillator Discussion Thread
I'm assuming this wick has already been discovered, but it's neither on the TL hasslers page nor the Z hasslers page: If you wan't to know whether an oscillator is known, you should also check the osc folder of jslife , and the oscillator stamp collection in the oscillators folder of Golly. In this...
- April 16th, 2024, 4:45 am
- Forum: Patterns
- Topic: Spaceship Discussion Thread
- Replies: 3119
- Views: 1124476
Re: Spaceship Discussion Thread
Interesting c/3 wick... Completed: x = 52, y = 135, rule = B3/S23 25b2o$21b2obo2bob2o$21b2o6b2o$21bobo4bobo$23b2o2b2o$22b2ob2ob2o$24bo2b o$22bo6bo$22bo6bo2$22b8o$21b2o6b2o2$25b2o$24bo2bo2$24bo2bo$23b6o$21b 10o$20bo10bo$18b3o10b3o$17b2obobo6bobob2o$16bo3bobo6bobo3bo$15b3o3bo2b 4o2bo3b3o$15b2o3bobo6b...
- April 15th, 2024, 7:40 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Golly 4.3b1
- Replies: 52
- Views: 1900
Re: Golly 4.3b1
Here are updates to two patterns in the collection. spaceship-types.rle (smaller (3,0)c/7; first (1,1)c/8; minimality proofs for (1,0)c/2, (1,0)c/4, and (2,0)c/5; corrected glider discovery year): #C A period p spaceship which displaces itself (m,n) during its #C period, where m >= n, is said to be ...
- April 14th, 2024, 2:13 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Golly 4.3b1
- Replies: 52
- Views: 1900
Re: Golly 4.3b1
There are still a few patterns that need updating (at least traffic-light-hasslers.rle, c3-orthogonal.rle, c4-orthogonal.rle, and spaceship-types.rle; probably more). How soon should this be done?
- April 12th, 2024, 4:31 pm
- Forum: Patterns
- Topic: Spaceship Discussion Thread
- Replies: 3119
- Views: 1124476
Re: Spaceship Discussion Thread
I think you're asking to preserve north clearance (the past of the NE traveling glider) and some northeast clearance (to avoid the future of the reaction we're applying the spark to). Here is an example solution that continues mostly south and southeast and I believe will fit in if I've understood ...
- April 12th, 2024, 8:57 am
- Forum: Patterns
- Topic: Spaceship Discussion Thread
- Replies: 3119
- Views: 1124476
Re: Spaceship Discussion Thread
I found two new perturbations that remove debris from the diagonal c/4 glider advancer convoy. One of them is a small spaceship that suppresses the blockade when the fuse is ignited. The second one is the smallest spaceship which suppresses the blinker produced when the advancer emits its glider. V...
- April 11th, 2024, 3:58 pm
- Forum: Patterns
- Topic: Spaceship Discussion Thread
- Replies: 3119
- Views: 1124476
Re: Spaceship Discussion Thread
Can a NE-traveling glider stream be turned around and shifted (a dirty solution would be fine) to complete become the input of a p488 advancer? x = 435, y = 491, rule = B3/S23 434bo$432b2o$433b2o242$434bo$432b2o$433b2o68$280bo7bo$279b2o5b2obo$ 279bobo3b2o2bo$283b2o2bo$281b5o$273b3ob2ob3o$273bo2bobob...
- April 11th, 2024, 3:18 am
- Forum: Patterns
- Topic: Execution of Old Guns by Variable-Speed Firing Squad
- Replies: 947
- Views: 572760
Re: Execution of Old Guns by Variable-Speed Firing Squad
p36 gun reduced from 49x30 (1470-cell BB) to 47x30 (1410-cell BB) using a modification to the existing Jason's p36 mechanism that releases the glider using a different sparker layout Reduced further to 49x28 (1372-cell BB) using a custom sparker (smaller solutions probably exist): x = 49, y = 28, r...
- April 11th, 2024, 1:34 am
- Forum: Scripts
- Topic: zfind discussion
- Replies: 257
- Views: 212385
Re: zfind discussion
If I'm not wrong, zfind is able to search for knightships. Does anyone know how the gfind search space is modified in order to allow for these searches? I was working on implementing oblique / diagonal searches for cfind (unfortunately oblique searches don't work yet), so I'm curious to see how thi...
- April 10th, 2024, 7:55 pm
- Forum: Patterns
- Topic: Spaceship Discussion Thread
- Replies: 3119
- Views: 1124476
Re: Spaceship Discussion Thread
It might also be possible to ignite the glider-advancer wick without the intermediate glider: x = 123, y = 97, rule = B3/S23 118b2o$118bobo$85b3o30bo$85bo35bo$86bo34b2o$85b3o25bo7b2o$85b3ob2o21b 2o6b2o$89bo2bo19bob4ob2o$92bo22bo5bo$79bo8bo25b2o3b2o$78b2o8b3o22b5o$ 78bobo2b6o25bo$69bo12b5o19b3o4b2o$6...
- April 10th, 2024, 8:21 am
- Forum: Patterns
- Topic: Pattern Of The Year 2023 Nominations
- Replies: 55
- Views: 6001
- April 10th, 2024, 7:34 am
- Forum: Patterns
- Topic: Spaceship Discussion Thread
- Replies: 3119
- Views: 1124476
Re: Spaceship Discussion Thread
> All that's left is to reflect and position the output glider stream so that it becomes the input stream That was a bit fiddly, but here it is. #C A diagonal c/4 period 1160 engineless puffer. ... Awesome! I just finished getting the chainable advancers to work at p632 while still allowing a glide...
- April 10th, 2024, 4:05 am
- Forum: Patterns
- Topic: Spaceship Discussion Thread
- Replies: 3119
- Views: 1124476
Re: Spaceship Discussion Thread
What is the lowest period "engineless" rake that we can build? We should be able to get around p1000 using the following idea (shown at p1160). All that's left is to reflect and position the output glider stream so that it becomes the input stream: x = 1047, y = 2090, rule = B3/S23 1045bo$1044bo$104...
- April 10th, 2024, 3:57 am
- Forum: Scripts
- Topic: GliderDB Reader
- Replies: 7
- Views: 131
Re: GliderDB Reader
I've finally gotten around to updating the GliderDB reader and the new link is here https://gliderdb-reader.vercel.app/ . The code can be found at https://github.com/jedlimlx/gliderdb-reader . Here's a bug: it seems that you are still required to input a valid velocity, even when the "Ignore Veloci...
- April 9th, 2024, 9:20 pm
- Forum: Patterns
- Topic: amling questionable searches/ideas firehose
- Replies: 269
- Views: 22884
Re: amling questionable searches/ideas firehose
I'm more a "make a giant, messy solution" sort of guy or maybe occasionally a "optimize one direction of clearance at the extreme expense of every other metric" sort of guy. What are you hoping to use a "reduce"d version of this in? I could try to optimize the NW clearance similar to the other spar...
- April 9th, 2024, 5:35 pm
- Forum: Patterns
- Topic: Spaceship Discussion Thread
- Replies: 3119
- Views: 1124476
Re: Spaceship Discussion Thread
As David Bell has been mentioning, a fast-repeat-time advancer could presumably give much lower periods: x = 533, y = 554, rule = B3/S23 374b2o$374bobo$367b2o5bo$367bobo3b2o2bo$367bo11bo$370bo3b2o3b3o$370b2o 4b2o4bo$376b7o$377b4o$384bo$383b4o24bo$387bo22b2o$382b6o22bobo$376b3o 3bob2o$376bo5bobo28b2o...
- April 9th, 2024, 4:59 pm
- Forum: Patterns
- Topic: Spaceship Discussion Thread
- Replies: 3119
- Views: 1124476
Re: Spaceship Discussion Thread
Some very preliminary searching can turn it e.g. at that first NW branch: x = 27, y = 42, rule = B3/S23 11b3o$11bo$2bo11bo$b2o8bo4bo$bobo8b3o$9bo6bobo$4b2o2bob2o6bo$5bo2bo2bo 7bo$4bobo13bo$3bo4bo2bo8bobo$3bo3b2o$3b5o3bo10b2o$4b3obo4bo9bo2bo$5bob ob2ob3o$4bo2bobob4o7b2o2bo$4bo17bo$4bo3bo$b2o3bobob2o...
- April 9th, 2024, 8:18 am
- Forum: The Sandbox
- Topic: Famous Quotes
- Replies: 417
- Views: 158262
Re: Famous Quotes
New rules: No posts that could possibly be viewed as negative. No making fun of other users. No quoting users with account ages less than 6 months.
The reason for the last rule is to avoid scaring off new users with unexplained attention to their posts.
The reason for the last rule is to avoid scaring off new users with unexplained attention to their posts.
- April 8th, 2024, 10:49 pm
- Forum: Patterns
- Topic: Spaceship Discussion Thread
- Replies: 3119
- Views: 1124476
Re: Spaceship Discussion Thread
I removed some of the glider redirection convoys, and so reduced the period of the diagonal c/4 puffers. As a fun exercise, I found a complicated cleanup convoy that works regardless of the period mod 16. Here is the resulting clean p3532+4N rake: #C c/4 diagonal p3532+4N rake #C #C To increase the...
- April 8th, 2024, 6:45 am
- Forum: LifeWiki Discussion
- Topic: Suggested LifeWiki edits
- Replies: 902
- Views: 177858
Re: Suggested LifeWiki edits
I created a pre-pulsar hasslers page for pre-pulsar hasslers that aren't shuttles. Can someone please add the following oscillators to that page: x = 289, y = 307, rule = B3/S23 104bo$103bobo$102bobobo$102bobobo$101b2obob2o$99bo2bobobo2bo$99b2o3bo 3b2o$102bobobo$97b5o2bo2b5o$96bo5bobobo5bo$95bobo3b2...
- April 8th, 2024, 3:16 am
- Forum: Patterns
- Topic: Spaceship Discussion Thread
- Replies: 3119
- Views: 1124476
Re: Spaceship Discussion Thread
This appears to be the basis of a fully configurable diagonal c/4 puffer. Excellent! Here is a refinement to more clearly demonstrate this mechanism: #N c/4 diagonal p4388+4N dirty rake #C To decrease the period by 4N, move #C box A diagonally southeast 2N cells. #C To increase the period by 16N, m...