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Life Lexicon says: : tick = generation Previous discussion of this point can be found here . EDIT after confocaloid's following post: this still doesn't seem like an interesting topic to get into an argument about, unless someone actually starts substituting "tick" for "gen" in some LifeWiki articl...

I think it's counterproductive to attempt to speak for others in the way you are doing. If you have an opinion on the issue, please state your opinion/position in a way that clearly separates it from opinions/positions of other people, while also leaving enough space for other people to state their...

I think the old wording (before the edit https://conwaylife.com/w/index.php?diff=156628&oldid=156612 ) is fine, and should be restored back: The gun uses two instances of the [[p49 pi-heptomino hassler]].<ref name="post160604" /><ref name="j4136177340" /> Yup, that was clear from your previous post...

I think rules are wrong. ... As example: I may create program, post source code, binaries, charts. Then after a week I create different program, and going to share large amount of information about it as well. Putting everything into single post just "because of rules" is not good. I do agree that ...

Despite the edit summary complaining about verbosity, the actual edit changes the meaning. The new version fails to correctly describe that gun, which uses only one p49 pi hassler. Can you suggest some specific wording that's clearer than the old "instance of" wording? Haycat2009's edit was a reaso...

get_Snacked wrote: ↑

October 30th, 2024, 8:05 pm

is there a sorted collection of factories in Life that i can find? and is it available on a browser? (like, no download needed and displayable on LV)

Sure -- it sounds like you're looking for the Still-life 'factories' thread.

My previous suggestions got zero response, is anyone interested in these optimizations at all? Should I post more? Long story short -- sure, please post more! The general rule of thumb that I use is that if a variant of something is "useful" in the sense of allowing a bounding-box improvement to th...

The left hand side (the new glider-separation mechanism) is in an unoptimized form and might work better with a better glider route. Prophetic words indeed -- 280*146 = 40880, and it looks like I've missed at least one more column over on the right. There's a likely welding opportunity to move the ...

It is smallest form is most likely this. x = 127, y = 127, rule = B3/S23 ... Just for a change, a trombone-slide adjustment with a couple of Snarks doesn't have to be painfully long to work: x = 108, y = 98, rule = LifeHistory 42.2A$41.A.A$35.2A4.A$33.A2.A2.2A.4A$33.2A.A.A.A.A2.A$36.A.ABABAB$36. A....

I tried to post the Python code to convert all the different files to a single stamp collection (a minor modification of b3s23osc.py), but the forum was convinced I was a spambot. Interesting! I've never seen that kind of denial of a Python-containing post by conwaylife.com forum software before. W...

a 1G seed of xs16_8kkl3zx1156... This still life is present in the independent version of Lx65. Is it important enough to be worth trying to make with slmake (i.e. make Spartan)? ... Maybe? But maybe not at a hugely high priority? Nobody has built anything big and Spartan-except-for-Lx65R64s yet, u...

Then it would remain to find an example whose period is of the desired order of magnitude, and find a way to adjust the period exactly. I would totally love to see someone succeed in accomplishing this trick. Just as a bit of fair warning to anyone who is thinking of attempting this, though: M13627...

The new Mersenne prime find, M136279841 , means that the prime-period oscillator in Golly's Very Large Patterns archive is no longer the largest prime period that we can easily build. We can fix that, though! ... In case the longer post above wasn't clear, I'd be very happy if someone wanted to tak...

The question came up on Discord this morning, as to what the best way to produce LifeWiki-compatible images. On September 7 I tried emailing Book to see if golhobby.com might be coming back online at some point -- but didn't hear anything back. Someone could certainly go through and rescue the sourc...

My point is that your descriptions are misleading, at least without added extra explanations of this kind. On the other hand, with such explanations of "what you really meant in this case", the description becomes even more confusing (even if maybe less misleading). In contrast, it's always correct...

The problem is interesting, especially if the aim is a pattern that's substantially more compact than would be achieved by just a reapplication of known approaches. How small a large prime period oscillator can be? Yup, I definitely didn't tighten up the quadri-Snark chains quite as far as I could ...

The new Mersenne prime find, M136279841 , means that the prime-period oscillator in Golly's Very Large Patterns archive is no longer the largest prime period that we can easily build. * We can fix that, though! FlutterWithKSparkler has already posted a period 2^136279841-1 oscillator that works very...

Can we do that in other rules? And I want to draw like that without copy. confocaloid's method should work well for any rule that supports Standard and History modes, I think. If you want to be able to draw normally in Golly, that's a bit trickier. It's technically possible to write a Lua script th...

CARuler wrote: ↑

October 24th, 2024, 4:53 pm

I uploaded this rule but lifeveiwer isn't processing it

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x = 9, y = 1, rule = HailstonesBinary
ABAB3ABA!

It looks like LifeViewer is expecting the @TABLE section to come before the other sections.

Anyway, I shuffled the order of the .rule file sections, and it seems to be working now.

FWKnightship wrote: ↑

October 24th, 2024, 3:28 am

A crazy idea: Can something like this be used in a helix?

Are you familiar with the "universal helix" thread from 2016? Can't believe that was over eight years ago already.

Some good tricks were developed for building "quadratic helices" with speeds that could get arbitrarily close to c/2.

What was the original formulation of Coolout Conjecture , when it was first stated? I'm not sure anyone can retrieve the original wording at this point; the wiki article has pretty much everything known about the conjecture. "originally formulated before 1992" means that it's not in LifeCA email ar...

Crossposting from Discord a couple more discoveries by Mitchell Riley's LightCone program -- NE3T95 and NW22T200_NW27T231_NE16T58: #C https://discord.com/channels/357922255553953794/1298596593120837712/1298596625836671078 x = 201, y = 139, rule = LifeHistory 131.2A$130.A2.A$131.2A8$126.3D$127.D$127....

A Coolout Conjecture solution has to be " internally consistent with being part of a still life (i.e. each cell can be stabilized individually by a boundary cell) " ... but the red cell is not stable -- it's supposed to stay OFF, but it wants to turn ON. sorry, i meant counterexample. (i had said "...

x = 5, y = 4, rule = B3/S23 2o$o2b2o$2bobo$b2o! is this a Coolout conjecture solution? if so, can it be reduced? It might be a matter of interpretation, but I'd say that doesn't count as a Coolout Conjecture solution, and I don't see how to reduce it to make it into one. x = 5, y = 7, rule = LifeHi...

That's an impressive improvement! I put something on LifeWiki current news, mentioning a factor of 38 improvement in population and a factor of 6000 on the bounding box. ... bounding box of (52514, 158980) and minimum population of 655,594... There are clearly some further optimizations that can be ...