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one question for you perhaps is how interesting is 62-cell 2c/5 even assuming 60-cell 2c/5 even completes with no surprises (just the known doubling of the 30-cell ship)? Lowest priority. Only run it if you have absolutely nothing else to run. The same projections that put 60-cell 2c/5 even at 83.1...

2c/5 pop 32 died in what I suspect is the worst phase search. After that I went back and ran pop 31 which squeaked by, running ~6h on the fanciest machine and maxing out at 119.89GB RAM. It found only the known pop 30 ship. This confirms that ship is smallest and there are no ships with minpop 31. ...

Infoboxes are really confusing, in several different ways. I think there are many cases when one could do better without an infobox. Pattern infoboxes work great for unambiguous individual patterns that aren't subject to change, like loafer or mazing . They work less well with patterns that can be ...

the page and the infobox should stay at "55P23". From the viewpoint of documenting it on LifeWiki, the reduction from 55 cells to 54 cells does not make a new article topic. The oscillator was discovered in 2022 and it is best to show and describe the original version in the infobox, with details a...

DroneBetter wrote: ↑

March 3rd, 2024, 1:02 am

I have a few results on the elementary side of things to share

Wow, that's quite a lot! Please cross-post the ships representing new speeds to the spaceships in Life-like CA thread.

The B-heptomino based dependent reflectors are nice, but I'm still very curious to see a method for sub-p17 independent reflection. Here is an idea that could maybe get us periods 15 and 16 if we are extremely lucky. Start with a particular honey farm predecessor and hit it with an eater and dot spa...

Does the following wick have an established name? x = 25, y = 2, rule = B3/S23 2ob2ob2ob2ob2ob2ob2ob2obo$ob2ob2ob2ob2ob2ob2ob2ob2o! I always thought of it as a "coiled snake". This wick was named previously, although I've never seen the name used elsewhere. In a reader reply by Paul Wilson publishe...

Do you think that the even-symmetric (2,0)c/5 search up to 58 or 60 cells could be completed with 120 GB? I imagine it would be very close to the memory limit.

this should be an exhaustive list of c/4 odd ships up to pop 61: The known pop 46 gutter ship: #C [[ TRACK 0 -1/4 ]] x = 19, y = 10, rule = B3/S23 3bo11bo$3bo11bo$2bobo9bobo2$bo3bo7bo3bo$bob6ob6obo$o7bobo7bo$o7bobo7bo $o17bo$bob2ob2o3b2ob2obo! This new (I think) pop 61 ship: #C [[ TRACK 0 -1/4 ]] x...

Will constrictor be an ok name? It is a type of snake and can be very long. They also kill their prey by constriction, which involves the snake coiling around the prey. I think it would be fine to include that as an alternate name, but I would also keep the name "coiled snake", which I think is a b...

I think the credibility of any such claim would need to be assessed by the community. The first to publish should absolutely be acknowledged, and any highly credible claim of earlier discovery should be mentioned as well. Here's a famous example of this issue: In 1805 Legendre published the method o...

I object- it is meaningless and not in usage. In contrast, caravan is in usage by more users. If you oppose caravan, you also have to oppose bihivite as per principle. In addition to what dvgrn mentioned, I think there are two important differences. First, "caravan" replaced an existing name, albei...

In my opinion, For LCM SKOPs the pattern should always be presented in a minimum population phase. If there is more than one minimum population phase, the chosen phase should ideally be the phase that is the largest number of generations after the interaction (so the interaction site is more orange ...

Edit war in https://conwaylife.com/w/index.php?title=Block_pull&action=history https://conwaylife.com/w/index.php?diff=146384&oldid=140558 Repeated removal of an existing term that can be found via forum search . False/misleading edit summary. Latest revision as of 05:13, 1 March 2024 Prior use of ...

A few years ago, Paul Champman coined the term "bihivite" for the classic, quintessential crystal used in the crystallization and decay oscillator . The term has otherwise been used only by dvgrn and confocaloid, so there is not widespread adoption. The crystal has been found independently numerous ...

I think putting discoveries under the user page is also problematic (especially when there are many edits showing in the log of recent changes). For comparison, on Wikipedia, WP:NOTWEBHOST says: Wikipedians have individual user pages, but they should be used primarily to present information relevan...

Can I get trusted pls? I want to put in a thing that I made :) Username is TheOddball524 There is a general rule that you don't add your own discoveries to the wiki (except under your user page, for example, User:TheOddball524/my_pattern). The best place to post your own discoveries and constructio...

The usual way to display a reaction envelope is to use a LifeHistory pattern with the blue cells left intact. But LifeHistory doesn't fit in well with the LifeWiki's current color scheme. What if we make a rule like... LightHistory, perhaps, that is functionally LifeHistory but with Book-theme colo...

Fortunately, we only need two for each: x = 114, y = 114, rule = B3/S23 42bo2$40bob3o13bobo15bo$42b2obo10b3ob3o11b3o$42bob2o9bo7bo9bo$43b3obo 7b3ob4o10b2o$56bobo$45bo10bob2o2bo7b2o$57bobo3bo5bo2bo$40bo4bo12bo4bo 6b2o$39bobo21bo$40bo3b2o3b2o12bo8bo$43b2o4b2o9bo2bo7bobo$27b2o33bo7bo $28bo31bobobo5bo2...

Can someone please use this to build an explicit independent 90-degree glider reflector? I'm not exactly sure how it would be done. The typical method doesn't work... It's okay to use two or more of these guns, I take it? No restrictions other than that the pattern works as an independent p16 glide...

One more period off the list! x = 36, y = 24, rule = B3/S23 12b2o$12b2o$6bo$6b2o$5b2obo3b2o$4bo2b3o2bob2o$3bobobo5b3o$2bobobo$3o2b o23b2o$bob2o6bo7bo9bobo$2b2o6bobo5b3o5b2obobo$3bo7bo5b2obo5bobobo$28b o$27bo2bo$27bo$21b2o4bo$15b2o5b2o3bo4bo$21b2o4bo3bobo$21bo6bo2b2obo$32b obo$16b2o10b4ob3o$17bo9bo7...

"THEME Book" was an experiment. Not counting some very limited situations where visible envelope is likely to help, I think it is best to keep the default two-colour theme in most cases. I generally agree that "THEME Book" should be avoided in most cases, and when it is used there should be a nearb...

TYCF wrote: ↑

February 29th, 2024, 1:17 am

Sokwe wrote: ↑

February 29th, 2024, 1:08 am

I'm not sure dark humor is appropriate for these forums, especially when it's completely off topic. Topic locked.

The topic does not seems to be locked yet?

Fixed. Thank you.

I'm not sure dark humor is appropriate for these forums, especially when it's completely off topic. Topic locked.

confocaloid wrote: ↑

February 28th, 2024, 5:44 pm

hotdogPi wrote: ↑

February 28th, 2024, 5:50 pm

Discussion moved from the oscillator discussion thread to the thread discussing this particular oscillator collection.