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With the simplest design I can think of, the only new single-channel recipes that will be needed are specialty elbow moves -- the block ends up not in SPEBOE position but on a nearby lane, 1hd through 6hd away from a "correct" elbow location. I just posted some recipes for converting a Pi elbow int...

I have marked all additions with " // CXI " and the part that I need help with with "HELP". I made an attempt with this. It isn't very efficient, but I think it might work. Would you do some tests and check if it does what you expect it to do? Note: on line 791 I changed if((first_active_gen > 0) &...

A few final steps. Don't know if these are known or useful or anything: x = 148, y = 144, rule = LifeHistory 143.2A$44.2A32.2A63.2A$12.2A29.A.A30.3A.A$9.2A2.A29.A31.A4.A31.2A27. 4A$10.A.A27.2A.A28.A2.5A.2A.A23.2A.A.A26.A3.A$5.A3.A2.2A26.2A.A.A26. 3A4.A.A.2A22.A.A.A5.2A20.A.A$4.A.A2.A.A3.2A26.A.3A27....

A smaller p60 gun: x = 36, y = 27, rule = LifeHistory 22.2BA3B4.B$20.4B4A7B$3.B4.A5B.B2.7B4A6B$.6BABA5B2A8BA2BA5B2A$.4B2A3B A8B.5B4A3B.B2A$2A3B2A3BA4BABAB2A3B4A2B4.B$2AB.B2A3BA5B2A3BA2BA3B$.B4. BABA10BA2B$8.A5B2.BA2BA3B$16.B4.4B$14.2BAB4.4B$12.3B3A5.4B$11.2B2A3BA B4.4B$10.B.B3A2B2A5.4B$9.3B.3B.BA.A...

... But when I checked 108b.txt, the glider showed up all right, but every RLE I tried gave a messy explosion instead of a cleanup. ... Strange, seems to be some subtle bug, and not strange that it affects all solutions in the 108b.txt file, because all solutions are identical up until glider 34. G...

New H-to-G, NE13T-7: x = 50, y = 80, rule = LifeHistory 9.D3.D.5D3.D4.3D2.5D7.5D$9.2D2.D.D6.2D3.D3.D3.D13.D$9.D.D.D.D7.D7.D3. D12.D$9.D2.2D.3D5.D5.2D4.D3.5D3.D$9.D3.D.D7.D7.D3.D10.D$9.D3.D.D7.D3. D3.D3.D9.D$9.D3.D.5D2.3D3.3D4.D9.D4$10.3D2.D3.D8.3D2.5D2.3D4.D$9.D3.D .D3.D7.D3.D3.D3.D3.D2.2D$9.D5.D3.D...

Looks like your search code is finding natural versions of what I'd do if I had to build these zero-degree recipes manually: trigger an edge-shooting Herschel explosion in the right place, then shoot gliders sideways to clean up the extra debris far off to the side, then do a conventional search to...

... EDIT:[/b] Also, quick question: the current 0-degree toolkit is complete up to +/-59, I think, but there are strange and magical things that can be accomplished with a width around +/-80 or maybe +/-90, maybe even if the wider range toolkit isn't complete. How close to the edge of searchability...

It's also worth adding that Python is not required to run Bellman, it's only required for the newer version of the post-processing script. To run Bellman you only need the executable files from the repository https://github.com/simeksgol/BellmanWin_szlim and the python script for post-processing. M...

EDIT: Also, quick question: the current 0-degree toolkit is complete up to +/-59, I think, but there are strange and magical things that can be accomplished with a width around +/-80 or maybe +/-90, maybe even if the wider range toolkit isn't complete. How close to the edge of searchability are tho...

Anyway, I'm glad you said that, because I do have one other wish-list item open at the moment... it would be nice to have a slow-salvo recipe for the other parity of HWSS . Here are some new HWSS recipes: /* E00->E00, +10, xwss=(2, 0), (-43, -18) */ { 0, 109, 0, 95, 0, 127, 0, 0, 1, 155, 1, 130, 0,...

dvgrn wrote: Looks good! Thank you for granting another wish. Is there some kind of quota, or do I just have to make the wishes sound interesting enough?

No problem! I don't mind running a search like that every now and then. As long as it doesn't mean too much modification to existing software...

... However, there's another use case where you don't really want the elbow duplicated, you just want it moved quickly. For that I'd need a destructive recipe for a return glider on a lane 3hd from the single-channel lane. ... (Really the 3hd offset isn't a requirement. It could be any offset that ...

When running a search with simeks' fork of bellman with the following input pattern, it immediately prunes the entire search tree because it didn't "become active in time" When running bellman.exe from here on Windows with your input, I get this console output: === Bellman_szlim, v0.74 === --- Star...

Luckily simeks pointed out a workable piece of an XOR mechanism recently (December) ... Somebody please find something nicer! For the record, these are the previously known XOR mechanisms that I know of, from here and here (at edit 9) x = 296, y = 204, rule = LifeHistory 13.A79.A79.A79.A$12.A.A77.A...

I can't figure out why I haven't seen this version of Conduit 1 with a shillelagh before. It's sometimes more compact than the standard version:

I'm probably repeating what I've said elsewhere, but I've always thought that "minimum covering polyplet" is the best notion of size because it penalizes both population and bounding box. So it would be a principled way of judging methusalae on just one number. I'm on my phone right now so I can't ...

A new bottom catalyst combination for the standard RF28B allows it to emit the RNE-19T84 glider: x = 24, y = 35, rule = LifeHistory 10.4B$9.4B$8.4B$7.4B$6.4B$5.4B$4.4B$3.4B$2.6B7.2A$.7B7.A$.9B2.BA.A$ 11B.B2A$9BA3B$.7BABA2B$.7BABA2B$3.B2.3BA3B$7.6B$8.6B$8.7B.2B$8.5B2.3B $8.2BC11B$8.2B2C9B2D$8.B2C11B...

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But always compile with optimization, the executable will be at least 3 times faster:

Making the block and hive together with three gliders keeps us at 19 gliders in total: You can build the block and the two hives with 4 gliders for a total of 18: x = 79, y = 83, rule = LifeHistory 74.A.A$74.2A$75.A22$49.E$48.E$48.3E8$22.E$20.E.E$21.2E$54.A$53.2A$53. A.A2$6.3A6.2A$8.A5.A.A$7.A8.A49...

Reduced p72 using a version of 47P72 without the blockers: x = 38, y = 35, rule = LifeHistory 2.B2A$2.3AB7.B$3.A.A6.BAB18.2A$2.B2A.BA4.2A.2A15.BABAB$3.3A.AB2.B5A 16.B3A$4.3B2A3.2A.B18.B2A$3.2A.3B3.BA15.B3.ABAB$3.3B.2A2.2B15.2AB.A.A B$3.2A3B3.ABA4.B9.ABA2BA$3.BA.3A3.AB2.4B2.B.B4.4AB$4.AB.2AB3.B.3B2A4...

Here's the best H-to-LOM I can find in a database of small H catalysts I'm working on. No room to stabilize it, but the signal does get in: x = 45, y = 50, rule = LifeHistory 33.2A$34.A6.A$32.A7.A.A$32.2A4.3A2.A$30.2A2.A2.A3.A.A$31.A.A2.A.2A.A. 2A$31.A.4A.A2.A2.A$28.2A.A6.A.A2.A$25.2A2.A.A.4A.A2.2A$...

Nice. Gets in the way of the two-glider LoM insertion, though, and also doesn't fit with the only glider+small object collision I know of that makes a LOM: I was looking for a high-clearence stabilization. Here are two for the glider collision, one of them with a surprise return glider: x = 110, y ...

I doubt this catalyst is known, and it seems to have a brilliant clearance. [...] 5c/9 signal injector Congratulations, very nice find! One possible stabilization: x = 50, y = 45, rule = LifeHistory 20.2C$20.C$18.C.C$18.2C10$11.A$11.2A$12.2A10.2A.2A$13.A11.A.A.A$25.A 3.A$20.2A.2A.3A3.A$21.2A.A.A2.4...

Inspired by Rhombic's question , i found this new H-to-C, and this C-to-G that must be known but isn't listed in the current collection. Neither seem to fit much else, but they work together for... yet another H-to-G7! x = 41, y = 66, rule = LifeHistory .3D2.D3.D.5D.5D3.D4.3D2.5D$D3.D.D3.D.D7.D4.2D3...