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- July 16th, 2012, 5:20 pm
- Forum: Patterns
- Topic: Thread For Your Accidental Discoveries
- Replies: 2053
- Views: 1418781
Re: Thread For Your Accidental Discoveries
I was messing around with using glider streams to cut through a field of junk, and discovered this: x = 405, y = 398, rule = B3/S23 8$78bobo$76bo3bo$69b2o5bo19bo$69b2o4bo4bo14b4o38bobo$76bo12bo4b2obobo 3b2o32bo3bo$28bobo45bo3bo3bob2o5b3obo2bo2b2o16bo19bo5b2o$28bo3bo45bobo 2bob4o5b2obobo19b4o14bo4bo4...
- November 12th, 2009, 6:30 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Naming Conventions?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 11660
Re: Naming Conventions?
Life Hashing System: -Each pattern has a binary number. -Start at top left of bounding box. Go left to right, top to bottom (like reading). -Example:0x0 00x xxx is 010,001,111 -Patterns are oriented and filpped to have the lowest possible binary number. -Oscilators and spaceships use phase with lowe...
- October 28th, 2009, 11:45 am
- Forum: Patterns
- Topic: A Challenge: Steerable Spaceship
- Replies: 9
- Views: 7186
Re: A Challenge: Steerable Spaceship
Yes please.
I'll send you a PM with my name and email address.
I'll send you a PM with my name and email address.
- October 19th, 2009, 1:30 pm
- Forum: Patterns
- Topic: A Challenge: Steerable Spaceship
- Replies: 9
- Views: 7186
A Challenge: Steerable Spaceship
I will pay $50 to the first person who creates an internally steerable spaceship. It must meet these requirements: -Contains one or more memory loops -Uses the information in the loop(s) to turn the spaceship -Does not require anything external to operate (I.e. no still lives, oscillators, gliders, ...
- October 19th, 2009, 12:51 pm
- Forum: The Sandbox
- Topic: Chain Gun
- Replies: 8
- Views: 8154
Re: Chain Gun
Nice!
- October 16th, 2009, 5:09 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: The Online Life-Like CA Soup Search
- Replies: 173
- Views: 143241
Re: The Online Life-Like CA Soup Search
an 8-cell pattern with a glider and a blinker can last quite a while Clearly the bounding box has to enter the equation along with cell count and lifespan (admittedly a tough if not impossible equation to come up with). I suppose there will always be trivial cases no matter what methuselah definiti...
- October 12th, 2009, 5:13 pm
- Forum: Patterns
- Topic: A bit of Life Humor
- Replies: 0
- Views: 5214
A bit of Life Humor
Check this out: Gliders going horizontally. x = 620, y = 205, rule = B3/S23 $509b2o$509bo$500b2o5bobo$499b3o5b2o$487bo8bob2o$487bobo6bo2bo$475b2o 11bobo5bob2o$475b2o11bo2bo7b3o7b2o12b2o$488bobo9b2o7bo13b2o$487bobo17b obo$487bo9bo9b2o$498b2o$497b2o4$584b2o$493b2o89bo$494b2o26b3o50b2o5bob o$493bo5b2o2...
- October 12th, 2009, 5:16 am
- Forum: Scripts
- Topic: Golly scripts
- Replies: 318
- Views: 298700
Re: Golly scripts
I can't seem to get it to work for some reason. PM 2Ring is using a very old version of Golly so some of his scripts don't work with newer versions (2.0 or later). Here is a fixed version: # Golly Python script. Written by PM 2Ring, March 2009. Updated August 2009. # Modified for Golly 2.0+ by Andr...
- October 12th, 2009, 4:22 am
- Forum: Patterns
- Topic: Completed universal computer-constructor
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5997
Re: Completed universal computer-constructor
Ok, I see.calcyman wrote:In order to program the computer, you simply need to alter the sequence of eaters extending to the north-west.Wow! Good Work Calcyman! It looks really cool! How do you use it?
Do you have a script to turn 1s and 0s into the eater sequence?
- October 12th, 2009, 3:13 am
- Forum: Patterns
- Topic: Thread For Your Accidental Discoveries
- Replies: 2053
- Views: 1418781
Re: Thread For Your Accidental Discoveries
I discovered that a p30 Gosper Glider Gun can be used to invert a glider coming from the front: x = 36, y = 24, rule = B3/S23 24bo$22bobo$12b2o6b2o12b2o$11bo3bo4b2o12b2o$2o8bo5bo3b2o$2o8bo3bob2o4b obo$10bo5bo7bo$11bo3bo$12b2o13$27b3o$27bo$28bo! I was firing said gun into a debris field. A glider cam...
- October 10th, 2009, 6:32 pm
- Forum: Scripts
- Topic: Golly scripts
- Replies: 318
- Views: 298700
Re: Golly scripts
p30 printer: update This version comments out the setcursor() call, which fails on recent versions of Golly. It will also allow you to recover the uncompressed version of the compressed output script: simply run the output script at the command line instead of in Golly & the script will be printed ...
- October 10th, 2009, 1:38 pm
- Forum: Patterns
- Topic: Completed universal computer-constructor
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5997
Re: Completed universal computer-constructor
Wow! Good Work Calcyman! It looks really cool! How do you use it?
- October 10th, 2009, 1:24 pm
- Forum: Patterns
- Topic: p22 Crystal
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5623
Re: p22 Crystal
More unexpected findings: x = 31, y = 31, rule = B3/S23 7$19bo$17b3o$16bo$16b2o$22b2o$22bo$20bobo$20b2o2$12b2o$12bobo$12bo2$3b 3o$4bo$4b3o! H+G=F8+G Incredible! I'll try and think of a use for this amazing discovery. It could be modified to use a Herschel to bump a glider over. Is there already a w...
- October 10th, 2009, 12:16 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: indestructible pattern
- Replies: 31
- Views: 19227
Re: indestructible pattern
A Universal Constructor surrounded by a wall would need some way to detect damage and translate that into a repair. Indeed. That's difficult, but theoretically possible. It wouldn't be able to recover as fast as the incoming gliders could damage. Again, I mean a device that can absorb all gliders, ...
- October 10th, 2009, 11:59 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Herschel Tracks
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5374
Re: Herschel Tracks
Thank you. Is there a library of Herschel Conduits somewhere? Good point. Dave Greene and I are making a pattern collection of stable technology, which includes Herschel conduits. There are 22 elementary Herschel conduits, five of which use boojum reflectors. Here are the remaining 17: (You will re...
Re: LWSS gun
Thanks for posting that PM 2Ring! That helps me out too.
- October 10th, 2009, 2:48 am
- Forum: Patterns
- Topic: Overwrite a Block
- Replies: 7
- Views: 6216
Re: Overwrite a Block
I strung together a chain of overwriters to create a repairable line of blocks. One of the gliders from each reaction triggers the next, with an extra block added to eat the other glider: x = 134, y = 95, rule = B3/S23 13b2o$13b2o$bo$2bo$3o3$4b2o4b2o$3bo2bo3b2o$3bo2bo$4b2o$20b2o$20b2o8b2o $30b2o6$21...
- October 10th, 2009, 12:22 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: indestructible pattern
- Replies: 31
- Views: 19227
Re: indestructible pattern
I just noticed that with this particle chaos field, one of Macbi's circles shows up in the middle at gen 382 After leaving it for a while, lots of the circles start to appear. I think for patterns like this, the whole inside of the octagon will always become filled with the circles and either still...
- October 9th, 2009, 4:27 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: indestructible pattern
- Replies: 31
- Views: 19227
Re: indestructible pattern
A Universal Constructor surrounded by a wall would need some way to detect damage and translate that into a repair. It wouldn't be able to recover as fast as the incoming gliders could damage. True, I do think it may be possible to make an pattern that can defend itself against any single glider th...
- October 9th, 2009, 4:19 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Golly 2.1 release candidates
- Replies: 13
- Views: 8846
Re: Golly 2.1 release candidates
Thank you!
- October 9th, 2009, 3:11 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: The Online Life-Like CA Soup Search
- Replies: 173
- Views: 143241
Re: The Online Life-Like CA Soup Search
I don't know if anyone has mentioned adding HexLife (or whatever it ends up getting called). One of the difficulties with that one is that rotations are different.
- October 9th, 2009, 2:38 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Golly 2.1 release candidates
- Replies: 13
- Views: 8846
Re: Golly 2.1 release candidates
I really like Golly.
Is there a way to rotate a selection 90 deg?
Is there a way to rotate a selection 90 deg?
- October 9th, 2009, 2:30 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: indestructible pattern
- Replies: 31
- Views: 19227
Re: indestructible pattern
*snip* There is no proof of a 100% eater, but I believe that a Universal Constructor surrounded by a wall could constitute such a pattern. However, Dave Greene seems to doubt this: my instinct is that a stable pattern will never be 100% glider-proof -- there are too many possible lanes of attack A ...
- October 9th, 2009, 2:06 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Herschel Tracks
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5374
Re: Herschel Tracks
Thank you. Is there a library of Herschel Conduits somewhere?
- October 9th, 2009, 3:52 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Herschel Tracks
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5374
Herschel Tracks
I think the next thing I want to learn about is Herschel Tracks: How they work, how they're used, and what they can do.