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- May 31st, 2019, 12:38 pm
- Forum: Patterns
- Topic: How does the 0E0P metacell work?
- Replies: 55
- Views: 41477
Re: How does the 0E0P metacell work?
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- May 29th, 2019, 3:50 pm
- Forum: Patterns
- Topic: How does the 0E0P metacell work?
- Replies: 55
- Views: 41477
Re: How does the 0E0P metacell work?
... an "orchestrated" idea that got mixed in there, but haven't gone over it carefully yet.) Acronyms in general are hard on the auto-transcriber: "OTCA metapixel" comes out as "mais ta cellule aux tcm et apx, elle se comportait macroscopiquement", which Google dutifully translates as "but your ...
- March 30th, 2019, 8:41 am
- Forum: Other Cellular Automata
- Topic: Thread For Your Unrecognised CA
- Replies: 3188
- Views: 1163449
Re: Thread For Your Unrecognised CA
... = 7, y = 22, rule = B2/S3H 3b3o$bo3bo$3b2o2$b2obo$o$2bo9$obo$4bo$bo2bo$bobo$2bo2bo$6bo$3bobo! [APPEND 2019.03.30. #1] First hexagonal nonexplosive OTCA eater? Three phases, p60: x = 88, y = 13, rule = B2/S3H 9bobo9bobo9bobo9bobo9bobo9bobo9bobo$13bo11bo11bo11bo11bo11bo11bo$10bo 2bo8bo2bo8bo2bo8bo2bo8bo2bo8bo2bo8bo2bo$10bobo9bobo9bobo9bobo9bobo9bob ...
- November 5th, 2018, 7:46 pm
- Forum: Other Cellular Automata
- Topic: Miscellaneous Discoveries in Other Cellular Automata
- Replies: 4272
- Views: 1044226
Re: Miscellaneous Discoveries in Other Cellular Automata
... x = 33, y = 5, rule = B2ein3cein4aeikyz5aqy6ce/S1c2aci3acnry4eikn5jr6en8 2o9bo9bo9bo$2o8bobo7bo9bobo$11bo18bobo$3b2o15bo$3b2o16bo! Reminds me of OTCA metapixel: x = 4, y = 3, rule = B2e3eij4cejknrt5iy6ac7c8/S1c2-k3ac4ijknr5ey6ack8 b2o$o2bo$b2o! x = 5, y = 20, rule = B2ei3eijkq4ik5cejy6cik7e8/S1c2ck3akqy4aek5ceq6ei7e8 ...
- September 7th, 2018, 3:51 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Conway life spaceships as real spaceships
- Replies: 40
- Views: 35181
Re: Conway life spaceships as real spaceships
OTCA metapixel: if you look closely at your computer screen, you can see these. kok's galaxy: one, giant, spinning, galaxy. guns: lasers? or airplane hangars? or factories? depends, gosper glider gun: laser buckaroo/snark: ...
- July 24th, 2018, 8:52 am
- Forum: Patterns
- Topic: Quest-for-Tetris Challenges
- Replies: 71
- Views: 81391
Re: Quest-for-Tetris Challenges
... a metacell to the southwest to be driven by the remaining stream of gliders. So the unit as it stands is a little less self-contained than the OTCA metapixel or the p1 megacell, which only need simple fuses to make any finite patch of metacells. (Right?) Yes that's right. Every true cell needs ...
- July 24th, 2018, 8:14 am
- Forum: Patterns
- Topic: Quest-for-Tetris Challenges
- Replies: 71
- Views: 81391
Re: Quest-for-Tetris Challenges
... a metacell to the southwest to be driven by the remaining stream of gliders. So the unit as it stands is a little less self-contained than the OTCA metapixel or the p1 megacell, which only need simple fuses to make any finite patch of metacells. (Right?) It almost seems as if there should be ...
- May 20th, 2018, 12:24 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Conway life spaceships as real spaceships
- Replies: 40
- Views: 35181
Re: Conway life spaceships as real spaceships
OTCA metapixel: if you look closely at your computer screen, you can see these. kok's galaxy: one, giant, spinning, galaxy. guns: lasers? or airplane hangars? or factories? depends, gosper glider gun: laser buckaroo/snark: ...
- May 20th, 2018, 12:07 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Conway life spaceships as real spaceships
- Replies: 40
- Views: 35181
Re: Conway life spaceships as real spaceships
What if we talked about stuff other than spaceships? what about OTCA metapixels? or kok's galaxy? or glider guns? or the UTM? or even the work in progress tetris game in life when it's complete? OR THE R-PENTOMINO? heck, we could even talk about other rules ...
- April 17th, 2018, 6:43 pm
- Forum: Other Cellular Automata
- Topic: Snowflakes (B2ci3ai4c8/S02ae3eijkq4iz5ar6i7e)
- Replies: 475
- Views: 208143
Re: Snowflakes (B2ci3ai4c8/S02ae3eijkq4iz5ar6i7e)
... 2o29b2o$13bo28bob2o$12b2o29b2o! Found while trying to look for a tractor beam reaction (push dot + side g), similar to OTCA metapixel's clock. Fun knightwise pulling reaction: x = 60, y = 15, rule = B2ci3ai4c8/S02ae3eijkq4iz5ar6i7e 56bo$54b5o$54bo3bo$47b2o4b2obob2o$36b2o8bob2o4bo3bo$24b2o11bo9b2o5b5o$ ...
- April 7th, 2018, 8:24 pm
- Forum: Other Cellular Automata
- Topic: Snowflakes (B2ci3ai4c8/S02ae3eijkq4iz5ar6i7e)
- Replies: 475
- Views: 208143
Re: Snowflakes (B2ci3ai4c8/S02ae3eijkq4iz5ar6i7e)
New p2:
It would be cool to see something like an OTCA metapixel or replicator in this rule, although how to go about that is a mystery.
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x = 9, y = 7, rule = B2ci3ai4c8/S02ae3eijkq4iz5ar6i7e
2bo2bo$o7bo$4bo$bob3obo$4bo$o7bo$2bo2bo!
- March 31st, 2018, 11:21 pm
- Forum: Scripts
- Topic: Script request thread
- Replies: 572
- Views: 336734
Re: Script request thread
Maybe I'm missing something, but don't those scripts only tile the OTCA metapixels, not Deep Cells or any of the other unit cell types? I'm wondering if there are scripts doing the same thing but for other unit cells (edit: just Deep Cells now). Also those ...
- March 31st, 2018, 10:32 pm
- Forum: Scripts
- Topic: Script request thread
- Replies: 572
- Views: 336734
Re: Script request thread
I was playing with the meta-meta-blinker pattern using OTCA metapixels earlier, but obviously trying to generate meta-patterns that large within Golly causes RAM issues pretty quickly. Are there any scripts out there for generating huge meta-patterns ...
- March 27th, 2018, 4:21 pm
- Forum: The Sandbox
- Topic: Random posts
- Replies: 5930
- Views: 1676156
Re: Random posts
Another idea: Create a machine in CGOL that takes a glider stream as input and creates a monochrome image using OTCA metapixel technology.
- March 4th, 2018, 12:13 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Thread for basic questions
- Replies: 5203
- Views: 1451261
Re: Thread for basic questions
1. Could a puffer be made that is kind of like a moving otca metapixel? 1a. With/without leaving behind debris showing every generation When Calcyman gets done compiling his replicator-megapixel, it will be trivial to program it to emulate various CA ...
- March 4th, 2018, 12:01 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Thread for basic questions
- Replies: 5203
- Views: 1451261
Re: Thread for basic questions
Hmm... Naszvadi's rule-110 guns in his Turing-completeness thread have a somewhat similar concept to that.danny wrote:1. Could a puffer be made that is kind of like a moving otca metapixel?
1a. With/without leaving behind debris showing every generation
- March 3rd, 2018, 11:45 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Thread for basic questions
- Replies: 5203
- Views: 1451261
Re: Thread for basic questions
1. Could a puffer be made that is kind of like a moving otca metapixel?
1a. With/without leaving behind debris showing every generation
1a. With/without leaving behind debris showing every generation
- October 15th, 2017, 9:57 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Golly suggestions
- Replies: 430
- Views: 242051
Re: Golly suggestions
Triangular rules: OTCA-metapixel can emulate all triangular rules, with this arrangement, where X are cells emulated, dashes are ignorable static cells: XX--XX--XX--XX-- --XX--XX--XX--XX XX--XX--XX--XX-- --XX--XX--XX--XX XX--XX--XX--XX-- ...
- September 25th, 2017, 6:23 pm
- Forum: Patterns
- Topic: Quest-for-Tetris Challenges
- Replies: 71
- Views: 81391
Re: Quest-for-Tetris Challenges
... patch in the center of the metacell for a metapixel display area. That may still work, but it might have to be a little off-center like the OTCA pixel. I can push the ladder circuit a good bit farther southwest for the next update, but it will only go just so far without a major reworking ...
- September 23rd, 2017, 7:29 pm
- Forum: Patterns
- Topic: Quest-for-Tetris Challenges
- Replies: 71
- Views: 81391
Re: Quest-for-Tetris Challenges
... That way, programming the counter's output for a specific B*/S* rule is just a matter of adjusting an evenly-spaced array of eaters, as in the OTCA metapixel and the p1 megacell. Best New Effort So Far I've had a lot of trouble finding reasonably well-packed ladder mechanisms, either orthogonal ...
- September 17th, 2017, 10:07 pm
- Forum: Patterns
- Topic: Quest-for-Tetris Challenges
- Replies: 71
- Views: 81391
Re: Quest-for-Tetris Challenges
... the outside. The eight incoming state signals could be routed to a central bank of "stopper" circuits instead. The above design mindlessly mimics OTCA metapixel's polling -- but I do like the way that looks. Anyone have an alternate design, preferably in the form of an actual pattern? Vague hand-waving ...
- September 7th, 2017, 10:42 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Life Lexicon update -- now Release 29, 2 July 2018
- Replies: 167
- Views: 116710
Re: Life Lexicon update
{pre-pulsar} {2c/3 wire} {5c/9 wire} {AK47 reaction} {arm} {B29} {barberpole} {pseudo-barberpole} {breeder} {omniperiodic} {orphan} {OTCA metapixel} {overclocking}... Thanks! Have attempted to fix all of the above, hopefully without introducing any new errors. The new HTML can be found at ...
- September 6th, 2017, 11:39 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Life Lexicon update -- now Release 29, 2 July 2018
- Replies: 167
- Views: 116710
Re: Life Lexicon update
... many people. It's probably overkill to list them all, but seems incomplete if we list just one. {orphan}: second sentence should say "an orphan". {OTCA metapixel}: "LWSS spaceships" should be changed to "LWSSs" or "LWSSes" or whatever the preferred plural is. {overclocking}: The discussion of the ...
- August 21st, 2017, 8:31 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Life Lexicon update -- now Release 29, 2 July 2018
- Replies: 167
- Views: 116710
Re: Life Lexicon update
... apgluxe c/7 spaceship lightspeed bubble lobster spaghetti monster zebra stripes ... and changed "quarter diagonals" to "quarter diagonal" and "OTCA Metapixel" to "OTCA metapixel". Also trimmed trailing spaces, and found and fixed an incomplete definition of "slow elbow". Also updated the introduction ...
- August 21st, 2017, 1:29 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Life Lexicon update -- now Release 29, 2 July 2018
- Replies: 167
- Views: 116710
Re: Life Lexicon update
... repeat rate spaghetti monster zebra stripes The following definitions are {referenced} and then :defined: in a difference case: Ghost Herschel OTCA metapixel P1 megacell parallel HBK Push Thanks! I hadn't gotten around to running that check again after the last run of webify.sh . These are ...