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https://conwaylife.com/w/index.php?diff=147530&oldid=147518 https://conwaylife.com/w/index.php?diff=147348&oldid=146004 In 68P16, the hassled reaction consists (at some point) of four blocks and four wings. It never consists of "wings and nothing else". So this oscillator is not a wing hassler, and...

Very nice find! A Herschel-plus-one-tick seems to substitute very nicely for a pi input, as long as there's a glider to back it up. The Herschel+glider is better because it performs a double-push -- i.e. a Herschel+glider is equivalent to a pair of pies. Darn, I didn't say that clearly -- I missed ...

Here is a way to inject a 2c/3 signal with a repeat time of 61... Very nice find! A Herschel-plus-one-tick seems to substitute very nicely for a pi input, as long as there's a glider to back it up. It even looks like there are about 20 ticks to spare, if it somehow became possible to deliver those ...

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March 18th, 2024, 4:19 pm

Do you see the "Edit2" at the end of my post ?

Edit2: It works fine here...

Scroll down and have a look in the bottom of your code block. There's a little problem with the closing code tag, which means the whole rest of the post is getting treated as code.

I believe there's a misunderstanding here, and that what Haycat is trying to say is that "the majority of SKOPs with prime period are rectifier loops". Thanks -- that's the perspective I was looking for, and for some reason couldn't find! I've added a separate sentence at the bottom of the section ...

I just need to post a post to make my account to be trusted? Trusted flag is added. Read through the links in the How to contribute link on the LifeWiki home page before you get too far into editing. I don’t know how to make a life lexicon or we just can’t make it? Not sure what this question means...

Will http://golly.sourceforge.net/ be updated? That happens after the above beta version gets tested, and a few more changes get rolled in (e.g., adapting toStandard.lua to deal with Investigator rules). The final 4.3 version will be downloadable from SourceForge. That won't happen for a while yet,...

Can anyone prove that stripey.rle does not have any two-glider destruction? Yikes -- I don't think we quite have the tools for that ready to hand, though maybe it isn't absolutely impossible. For example, we pretty much have to try every single possible collision between the following pattern and o...

The main distinction is not connectedness/density. What makes the difference is lack of displacement or change of phase. True, a reburnable fuse that gets displaced isn't necessarily a wire (until enough signals are sent along it to restore it). The connectedness (or at least proximity) still seems...

What is the difference between a wire and a reburnable fuse? They seem to be synonyms. They're not quite synonyms, though they're definitely on a continuum. "Wire" pretty universally refers to a connected clump of cells, with some unit of repetition. Things that have been called "reburnable fuses" ...

Dave are you planning these updates for the upcoming 4.3 Golly release? I will certainly get around to working on those changes eventually. This week just hasn't been good at all for free time -- contractors working on my father-in-law's house while I'm in it, up to eight or ten at a time. Next wee...

I've noticed that comments in the pattern files seem to use three different formats for paragraphs: 1. Blank line before each paragraph... 2. Indentation on the 1st line of a paragraph... 3. Indentation on all lines of a paragraph except the 1st... We seem to be moving to #3 as the preferred format...

Sorry, I'm confused. Are you saying that you are the discoverer and oregan0 is your Discord username? Also, can I get a link to where the pattern was first posted on Discord and where it was first posted on the forums? That's right -- affamatodidio == oregan0 . I haven't yet dug up the original pos...

Are you referring to this insertion reaction? (1) Two timed gliders collide to construct a beehive (2) Five timed gliders collide to inject the signal (3) One glider restores the end of wire... Yup -- more or less. By the time that reaction was built into a working X-to-2c/3 circuit, it had evolved...

This can in theory inject signals with rt 56... Wow -- I'm still trying to get used to the implications of this discovery. The original 2c/3 wire insertion required synchronizing five signals, with two more coming along sometime later. Extrementhusiast's improvement got that recipe down to four syn...

This time I checked the gun and guntrue tabulations on Catagolue. I do not see this period in either. If you paste the RLE for a gun like this into the "nonmagical box" at the bottom of this Catagolue page , the gun will show up there in a few hours. There are a lot of missing periods, of course, a...

This G to MWSS Converter is only 20 cells away from being the "perfect" Edge Shooter - anybody got a fix ? I'm getting 19 cells when I try to measure the distance that the MWSS output lane would have to move upward, to clear the top edge of the pattern. Is that what the "20 cells away" refers to? T...

p56 blinker factory, reaction found by Luke Kiernan on the Discord... Seems like there's a bit more clearance if you put the blinker on the other side: x = 40, y = 41, rule = B3/S23 16b3o$15bo$14b2o3bo$12b3obo8b2o$2o9b2obobobo4bo2bo$bo8bobo2bo9bo$bobo 8b2o5bo5bo2b2o$2b2o2bo5bo5b2o8bobo$6bo9bo2bobo8...

Since you suggested to leave a greeting message, why not be a role model and get the ball rolling? I am sure others will follow. Well, remember that the forums and the LifeWiki are only "reluctantly moderated". The members of the community are the people run the forums and the LifeWiki, and the ide...

Also, now the patterns in my previous post can function normally. The sqrt-growth pattern certainly works now, as confocaloid demonstrated. That and the other three patterns aren't really workable candidates for Golly's pattern collection yet. I've explained some of the reasons for that; I can try ...

There's no general guaranteed method for either discovering or constructing more of these. These special-case puffers are moderately interesting, but it's only in rare cases that they end up being usable to solve any larger problems. I.e., any given discovery of this special-case type is usually so...

On the traffic jam page, there are examples for 102 (2 mod 4) and 104 (0 mod 4). These can be extended, so 154 would have the 102 design since 154 is 2 mod 4. Yup. I was able to confirm by experiment that the p2700 loop can perfectly well be extended by just two traffic lights at a time, not four (...

I'm hoping there is a reaction using three (or maybe just two) still lifes which will shift a glider by one full diagonal. Combining that with the reaction above would be a better fuse using fewer than eight still lives. The shift doesn't even have to burn at c/4, just not toooo slow. There are qui...

This is the same p2700 loop folded up in a reasonably clean way... Oh, good. I must have just done something wrong in my earlier attempts at adjusting the p102+6n family. Once I have the p2700 loop, I can adjust it to make a p2550 loop (which is what's needed to make the smallest +/-6n family membe...

[...]The first pattern above is an example of linear growth, not sqrt growth. [...] canvas.png Heh, b-engine updated the pattern after I posted that: The first pattern actually only works in old version of B-Univ. I've edited the post to the newest sqrt growth. Apparently the second pattern is stil...