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by codeholic
August 4th, 2021, 3:34 am
Forum: Patterns
Topic: (13,4)c/41 crawlers
Replies: 27
Views: 9461

Re: (13,4)c/41 crawlers

Well, given the same input, a block cleaner can be accomplished much easier, and there are plenty of ways to do so: x = 258, y = 9, rule = B3/S23 2bo49bo47bo50bo49bo48bobo$obo47bobo48b2o49bo49bo48b2o$b2o48b2o47b2o48b 3o47b3o48bo2$7b2o$7b2o48b2o$57b2o47b2o148b2o$106b2o47b2o47b2o50b2o$ 155b2o47b2o! On...
by codeholic
August 3rd, 2021, 3:02 am
Forum: Patterns
Topic: (13,4)c/41 crawlers
Replies: 27
Views: 9461

Re: (13,4)c/41 crawlers

Here's a relatively clean chain of reactions, though still useless. It probably can be continued or be an inspiration for your attempts: x = 295, y = 452, rule = B3/S23 o$b2o$2o21$15bo$16bo$14b3o22$28bobo$29b2o$29bo21$44bo$42bobo$43b2o21$ 57bo$58b2o$57b2o21$72bo$73bo$71b3o22$85bobo$86b2o$86bo21$101b...
by codeholic
August 1st, 2021, 5:21 pm
Forum: Patterns
Topic: 14c/65 growing fuse
Replies: 3
Views: 3949

Re: 14c/65 growing fuse

There is a way to feed the reaction with a 2-glider collision. This example features another way to link the R-pentominos so you can rephase the reaction: x = 572, y = 93, rule = B3/S23 294bo$277b2o14b2o$276bobo14bobo$261bo16bo30b3o$261b2o46bo$260bobo47bo 15b2o$244b3o78b2o$246bo80bo14b2o$228b2o15bo2...
by codeholic
July 31st, 2021, 2:51 am
Forum: Patterns
Topic: (13,4)c/41 crawlers
Replies: 27
Views: 9461

Re: (13,4)c/41 crawlers

Unfortunately I couldn't find 3-spaceship helix yet. Here are some by-products that may be useful for fanout: x = 434, y = 198, rule = B3/S23 298bo$105bo191bobo$6bo97bobo189bo2bo107bo$5bobo95bo2bo100bo89b2o107bob o$4bo2bo96b2o100bobo196bo2bo$5b2o198bo2bo197b2o$206b2o7$302bo$109bo 191bobo$10bo97bobo1...
by codeholic
July 30th, 2021, 2:53 am
Forum: Patterns
Topic: (13,4)c/41 crawlers
Replies: 27
Views: 9461

Re: (13,4)c/41 crawlers

It turns out that a helix for this speed exists at the period of the reaction itself, and it only uses 4 LWSS per period: Very nice! It seems to me like this helix could be reduced further to 3 spaceships per period. Here are the 4 basic interactions: x = 316, y = 42, rule = B3/S23 o99bo99bo99bo13$...
by codeholic
August 18th, 2019, 7:27 am
Forum: Patterns
Topic: P30 Self propagating Geminoid (Completed!)
Replies: 34
Views: 40162

Re: P30 Self propagating Geminoid (Completed!)

An amazing piece of art and engineering. Probably the most beautiful instantiation of the principle formulated by Eric Raymond that I've ever seen.
Smart data structures and dumb code works a lot better than the other way around.
by codeholic
January 9th, 2019, 8:51 am
Forum: Patterns
Topic: Pattern of the Year 2018 competition: Voting
Replies: 57
Views: 46029

Re: Pattern of the Year 2018 competition: Voting

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by codeholic
March 9th, 2018, 5:43 pm
Forum: Patterns
Topic: Elementary knightship
Replies: 136
Views: 342440

Re: Elementary knightship

It's so pity I noticed it so late!

My belated congratulations to Adam, Tom and Josh!
by codeholic
March 9th, 2018, 5:39 pm
Forum: Patterns
Topic: Belated Pattern of the Year 2014 competition: Voting
Replies: 18
Views: 13270

Re: Belated Pattern of the Year 2014 competition: Voting

I agree. Also the pufferfish may seem like something self-evident in 2018, but in 2014 it was a really huge excitement. It would be definitely higher in my leaderboard.
by codeholic
September 2nd, 2017, 3:03 pm
Forum: Patterns
Topic: Synthesising Oscillators
Replies: 1862
Views: 1123997

Re: Synthesising Oscillators

I wonder if this simple oscillator had been known:

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x = 15, y = 15, rule = B3/S23
7bo$7bo$7bo2$5b5o$5b3o2bo$5bo4bo$3o3bo2b2ob3o$5bobob2o$4bobob3o$5bo2$
7bo$7bo$7bo!
It results from depolymerization of this oscillator.
by codeholic
August 7th, 2017, 3:08 pm
Forum: Patterns
Topic: Crawlers
Replies: 68
Views: 24533

Re: Crawlers

by codeholic
August 5th, 2017, 12:39 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Catagolue quota
Replies: 44
Views: 30717

Re: Catagolue quota

Oops, true. Infinitely many of them

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x = 10, y = 10, rule = B/S45
4b2o$3b4o$2b2o2b2o$b2o4b2o$2o6b2o$2o6b2o$b2o4b2o$2b2o2b2o$3b4o$4b2o!
by codeholic
August 5th, 2017, 12:19 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Catagolue quota
Replies: 44
Views: 30717

Re: Catagolue quota

assuming you mean CGoL instead of CWOL My brain broke. Yes, I do. but I think similar popular rules should be non-throttled. 3. Depending on how the rule filter will work, it might dissallow rules like B/S45, which I am planning to use to search for SLs with only 4 or 5 neighbours. There are no sti...
by codeholic
August 5th, 2017, 12:00 am
Forum: Other Cellular Automata
Topic: Soup search results in rules other than Conway's Life
Replies: 456
Views: 253608

Re: Soup search results in rules other than Conway's Life

I would call this kind of growth pattern a growing sawtooth.
by codeholic
August 4th, 2017, 11:52 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Catagolue quota
Replies: 44
Views: 30717

Re: Catagolue quota

  • donation button (subscription-based donations too)
  • throttling non-CGoL hauls after daily traffic reaches a certain threshold
  • banning stupid rules full of unremarkable patterns, such as B/S2345678 (if it's not done already)
by codeholic
August 4th, 2017, 11:35 pm
Forum: The Sandbox
Topic: Random posts
Replies: 5930
Views: 1583116

Re: Random posts

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x = 23, y = 4, rule = B36/S23
3ob3ob3obobobo3b3o$o3bobobobob2o2bo3b2o$obobobobobobobobo3bo$3ob3ob3ob
obob3ob3o!
by codeholic
August 4th, 2017, 11:23 pm
Forum: Other Cellular Automata
Topic: Natural c/98 HighLife spaceship
Replies: 26
Views: 19350

Re: Natural c/98 HighLife spaceship

Indeed, but it's the minimal possible gun period for a c/98 gun! What does the c/98 spaceship have to do with the replicator?!
by codeholic
August 4th, 2017, 10:59 pm
Forum: Other Cellular Automata
Topic: Natural c/98 HighLife spaceship
Replies: 26
Views: 19350

Re: Natural c/98 HighLife spaceship

p1728 c/98 spaceship gun: Excuse my slowpokeness (I don't read "Other Cellular Automata" that often), but it is a fine contraption indeed! My belated congratulations! But what kind of coincidence that ought to be that the very minimal c/98 gun period is divisible by 48, which is also the HighLife r...
by codeholic
April 2nd, 2017, 11:43 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Pattern of the Year 2016 (Votes)
Replies: 28
Views: 19939

Re: Pattern of the Year 2016 (Votes)

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by codeholic
November 20th, 2016, 4:20 pm
Forum: Patterns
Topic: Soup search results
Replies: 2588
Views: 1892072

Re: Soup search results

I'm still waiting for an OWSS appearing in a symmetric soup, something like:

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x = 23, y = 8, rule = B3/S23
8bobobobo$7bo7bo$7bo7bo$obo4bo7bo4bobo$3bo3bo7bo3bo$3bo3bo7bo3bo$o2bo
3bo2bobo2bo3bo2bo$b3o3b3o3b3o3b3o!
by codeholic
September 10th, 2016, 4:32 am
Forum: Website Discussion
Topic: Pattern viewer for forum threads
Replies: 3383
Views: 835342

Re: Pattern viewer for forum threads

I don't know if it was reported before, but the close button doesn't work in Chrome on iPad.
by codeholic
August 12th, 2016, 4:42 pm
Forum: Patterns
Topic: Soup search results
Replies: 2588
Views: 1892072

Re: Soup search results

+1 sounds appropriate

P. S. Might cause some ambiguity with two other patterns with a similar name though Cloverleaf (disambiguation)
by codeholic
July 19th, 2016, 4:25 pm
Forum: LifeWiki Discussion
Topic: LifeWiki Trusted Account Request Thread - Post requests here
Replies: 790
Views: 288737

Re: Massive spam attacks on the wiki (and forums?)

Maybe just restoring all the data from a backup would be a better option? (We do have a backup, don't we?)
by codeholic
July 18th, 2016, 4:27 pm
Forum: Patterns
Topic: Spaceship Discussion Thread
Replies: 3048
Views: 1116218

Re: Spaceship Discussion Thread

One problem with the Pi wave stabilization problem is it's hard to stabilize it from the back . If there was a way to do that with a stream of spaceships then it could be possible to make a wave ship that synthesizes its own supports. You can stabilize Pi waves with sideways gliders, so theoretical...
by codeholic
July 6th, 2016, 2:28 am
Forum: Patterns
Topic: (27,1)c/72 caterpillar challenge
Replies: 176
Views: 146645

Re: (27,1)c/72 caterpillar challenge

I think, that one of, if not the most important thing we need at this stage is to try to find a way to rephase climbers. The simplest way would probably be to find a track that consists of simple (= likely to appear in debris) constellations of still lifes (such as two blocks, for instance). I don't...