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On the LxR-chain toolkit topic -- here's a workable blueprint for the planned G-to-B29, not tightened up yet: x = 577, y = 532, rule = LifeHistory 62.C.C$63.2C$63.C23$55.2A$55.A.A$57.A4.2A$53.4A.2A2.A2.A$53.A2.A.A.A. A.2A$55.BABABA.A$56.B2ABA.A$57.2B.BA$56.3B$47.2A6.4B$48.A6.B2A3B$48.A .AB3.B2A3B$49...

( EDIT: Added back the pi-producing conduit with the extra welded eater, mentioned below.) Here's a stamp collection that might help make it a little clearer which options are still missing from the full toolkit: x = 2452, y = 841, rule = LifeHistory 171.2281F$171.F119.F119.F119.F119.F119.F119.F119....

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October 12th, 2024, 2:36 am

... from what I can find and read, "foxclock" is the most common name so far.

This is true on Discord as well.

I've gone ahead and moved the article to "Foxclock" -- removing the original article's CamelCase naming, but still leaving me feeling somehow as if I'm suddenly reading a Dr. Seuss book.

Crossposting a couple of new Herschel conduits based on Mitchell Riley's amazingly high-clearance HRx93E -- the converter that we've all been waiting for that lets E-heptominoes into the club of Obviously Definitely Useful Signal Types. Repeat time is 116 for both Herschel conduits, and potentially ...

The current guntrue_241 is 3700 cells: x = 74, y = 50, rule = LifeHistory 41.A11.2A$40.A.A9.B2AB$32.A3.2A2.A.A9.3B$18.A12.A.A2.A2.2A.2A9.B.B$18. 3A10.A.A3.A.A2.B8.5B$21.A10.A.4A2.AB2A6.6B$20.2A12.A3.A.A.2B4.8B$20.4B 9.A2.BA.A2.A2BA9B$22.3B7.A.2BA.A5.BA11B$21.4B7.2A.2BA5.A14B$4.2A15.5B 10.3B4.2A3BA9B...

Good eye. The formal name of the first part is HRx93E . No hits on the forum when I search that, so I think it's new. Yup. The E-to-B that it attaches to is known -- EF42B, just consisting of one fishhook eater -- so HRx93E + EF42B + BFx59H = HR194H. The HRx93E seems to deliver its E output in a si...

isn't that just an H to E attached to an E to B? It sure seems to be! But it's not a previously known H-to-E, is it? That B-heptomino ends up having a really nice output clearance, and the whole thing ends up being impressively Spartan -- and yet I don't find any hits on "R194" or "HR194H" on the f...

Crosspost from Discord: Mitchell Riley — 10/10/2024 at 2:12 AM some H-to-Gs I've come across while working on lightcone: NE22T28 x = 45, y = 49, rule = LifeHistory 2.D3.D.5D2.3D3.3D2.5D2.3D3.3D$2.2D2.D.D5.D3.D.D3.D3.D3.D3.D.D3.D$2.D. D.D.D9.D5.D3.D7.D.D3.D$2.D2.2D.3D6.D5.D4.D6.D3.3D$2.D3.D.D7.D5.D5....

Chanced the previous fuse into a very useful tool (maybe)... Not to spoil the fun, but at around that cost of three small still lifes per output glider (or null output) we've been doing this kind of thing for quite a while . x = 90, y = 97, rule = LifeHistory 9$42.A2B$37.4BABA3B$36.6B2A3B$36.11B$36...

An improvement of the B29 synthesis recipe to 15 gliders (so far): Kazyan — 10/9/2024 at 1:17 AM Improvement to the B29 synthesis, found via QuFince. It replaces the cool mango-fourteener scaffold. x = 39, y = 34, rule = B3/S23 12bo$10bobo$11b2o12bobo$25b2o5bo$26bo3b2o$13bo17b2o$14b2o$13b2o2$5bo$ 3b...

"The following LCM oscillators are the smallest non-trivial oscillators of their period by minimum population" sounds like the perfect wording to me. How about allowing in the "known" caveat and a date, though? ""As of MM/DD/YYYY, the following LCM oscillators are the smallest known non-trivial osc...

Nice! Here's the p96+96n version, roughly the same size with a smaller population, and probably improvable with a better p12 other-direction backrake: x = 852, y = 2278, rule = B3/S23 11b2o7b2o$10b2o3b3ob3o$12b2o2b2obobo$11bob2o5b2o$11b2ob5ob2o$11b2o5bo 2bo$10bo8b3o$5b3ob2o9b2o$3b2ob2obo2b2o$3b5o2bo...

Using a higher up spark gets it down to 240+24N: ... x = 747, y = 2004, rule = B3/S23... The loaf-to-boat-to-nothing conversion looked a little awkward. Here's a version with a smaller bounding box but higher population (23473 vs. 21672), with the cleanup in the triangle at the bottom done with a p...

(What is the longest-lived known 3G collision?) There doesn't seem to be an easy answer in the list of long-lived methuselahs ; Blom takes four gliders to build, and most of the rest of that list needs 5G or more. I think someone would have to run through octo3g's database to figure that out. Could...

Here's some not-yet-complete synthesis news from the last week, posted here to enable a better LifeWiki CurrentNews link: Exa — 10/04/2024 11:57 AM Some 5g synths Object xs13_0g4q552z121 (true) (previous cost 6, this cost 5) (used by 781, first 5 uses: ['xs15_0g8gka23z343', 'xs16_0g4q552zbc1', 'xs16...

Basically "CP0" has been chosen completely arbitrarily for now -- maybe there's an obvious choice for that, but the stamp collection can be recalibrated once that's figured out. The important part is collecting the sixteen options that make a complete set, and then we can figure out the best labels...

I might want to have a personal page though I will have to think about it... The way that this thread works is that new requests are honored by default -- the policy is basically "trust but verify". You had rescinded your request, but this message more or less reinstates it, so I've set your truste...

[*] I think the infobox in the linked change should say "Static symmetry: n", and link to Category:Strict still lifes with n symmetry . However, the description in that category page should be edited, to avoid incorrectly implying that "n" denotes a kinetic symmetry... Would it work to add a separa...

...you will never get all 68 remainders by doing this: {{Mod|{{CURRENTDAY}}|68}} True! Now trying {{#time:z}} instead. Seems to work -- by adding various integers I was able to get the expression to roll over from "speed tunnel" to "primer". Another problem is that, if you want to have the displaye...

Familiarity with the notability and style guide has been established. The purpose of this request is to obtain permission to correct any typos discovered on pages in the future, perform other minor edits, and share personal findings exclusively on the personal user page. Trusted flag has been added...

I would prefer to use "n" rather than "C1" (and likewise for other types of symmetry that a pattern can have in a single generation), both for oscillator patterns and for still life patterns. I think one should distinguish between "Static symmetry" and "Kinetic symmetry" in the infobox, but that do...

"Be bold" doesn't really apply to changes that involve editing multiple pages in quick succession. That's just yet another undiscussed editing campaign, and not any kind of "experimental edits". I'm sorry, confocaloid, but this all sounds like complete nonsense to me. "Be bold" can perfectly well a...

https://conwaylife.com/w/index.php?title=Grandfather_problem&curid=8369&diff=156051&oldid=155578 Problematic for the same reasons. (The topic of the article is grandfather problem , which is not just a single specific pattern. The topic of this article doesn't have any specific symmetry.) I think t...

Large-scale changes definitely need observable consensus. If someone is planning to edit "a few dozen [...] pages" at once, then it is no longer "experimental edits". [...] experimental edits [...] [...] a few dozen still-life pages -- [...] One or two dozen edits is big enough to get the attention...

There has been no reply for a while. Can we safely declare consensus? It seems like the discussion about replacing kinetic symmetry with static symmetry for still lifes has slipped from "active discussion" into "no more discussion for now", quite some time ago. Haycat2009 has asked me if it makes s...