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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.

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It's so pity I noticed it so late!

My belated congratulations to Adam, Tom and Josh!

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.

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.

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!

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...

I would call this kind of growth pattern a growing sawtooth.

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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)

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x = 23, y = 4, rule = B36/S23
3ob3ob3obobobo3b3o$o3bobobobob2o2bo3b2o$obobobobobobobobo3bo$3ob3ob3ob
obob3ob3o!

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?!

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...

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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!

I don't know if it was reported before, but the close button doesn't work in Chrome on iPad.

muzik wrote:cloverleaf interchange.

+1 sounds appropriate

P. S. Might cause some ambiguity with two other patterns with a similar name though Cloverleaf (disambiguation)

Maybe just restoring all the data from a backup would be a better option? (We do have a backup, don't we?)

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...

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...

Rich Holmes discovered a new p16 using apgsearch

Object: https://catagolue.appspot.com/object/xp ... 0ck8/b3s23
Haul: https://catagolue.appspot.com/haul/b3s2 ... c55d8d4edc

I don't think there is a need for a special term, especially "adjustable" can mean different things, so it's better to be more descriptive, i. e. "with adjustable period", "with adjustable velocity", "with adjustable period, velocity and slope". P. S. I think that was you who proposed to categorize ...

This ought to be enough for most purposes. diff --git a/defs.h b/defs.h index 19f11bd..ea7c552 100644 --- a/defs.h +++ b/defs.h @@ -17,13 +17,13 @@ /* various constants */ /* MAXCOL, MAXROW, DEFMR, DEFMC obsolete for list code */ -#define MAXCOL 100 -#define MAXROW 100 +#define MAXCOL 800 +#define M...

@Sokwe Thanks for sharing! Have you tried to adapt zfind for puffer search?

Isn't it pentadecathla? https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E1%BC ... E%BF%CE%BD

P. S. Or pentadecathlō if you want to stress that there are two of them

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