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I'm having some problems using "find-full-participation-collisions_v3.py". Where can I find the ruletables for "Interaction-test" and "Interaction-prep"? Hmm. That might need some forensic work on old backups, though I remember what they did and could _probably_ rewrite them correctly from scratch....

If you modify and save the pattern then the rule is maintained since it's still in the comments. Aha, that seems like a key point. Modifying then saving a pattern seems like it will be an important use case. Persisting the rule in the comments seems to handle that. Copying a piece out of a pattern ...

4) ignore Golly's stored rule and use the rule from the pattern comments and open the pattern. In this case on first opening it would need to do something like write a renamed version of rule from the pattern comments to the rule folder, modify the pattern header and @RULE name in the pattern comme...

But this time it's something completely different. Although it's still an infinite growth pattern... I know, all isn't perfect but it gave me another opportunity to practice pattern construction. This one actually does match what people around here tend to think of when they hear "infinite growth p...

Is it a bug or normal behaviour ? Seems like three-block shifter is indeed missing. I unsuccessfully tried to lookup each of 8 orientations of another phase. It should be in octo3obj, because a "nearby" collision (same 3-block constellation) is there: x = 8, y = 9, rule = B3/S23 2o3bo$2ob2o$4b2o5$2...

This search found another interesting result with two objects that are rebuildable from two two-glider collisions... It's better than that. Two two-glider collisions means precisely synchronizing four "rebuild" signals, or at least synchronizing two pairs of signals precisely with each other, plus ...

If a rule with the same name already exists things get awkward. It needs to be ignored but there's no tidy way I can see to do this in Golly from scripts. It would be a little bit fiddly, but it doesn't seem impossible to check that the @RULE appended to the pattern is character-for-character ident...

Oh thanks for your time :) it's nice to have other QB seeds then a ship. Similarly it would be nice to have more hershel seeds. Currently I know just 4 (2nd variant of boat with blinker not included ... actually they produce H+2 rather to H). (of course pslmake is a big storage of p1/p2 seeds, but ...

Anybody planning to add the @RULE-loading functionality? I should have a first attempt at fixing up the "toSuper", "toHistory", and "toStandard" Lua scripts checked in a little later today -- the simple starter option, along these lines . Then I'm planning to go and wrestle with pattern files again ...

I'm sure there should be a confirmation popup, either way. You've implied that you're sure about that because "I already ran into multiple cases where there is an appended ruledata, but I don't really want to use that ruledata; I just want to copy the pattern into Golly." Can you please give some m...

These cases aren't "hypothetical". I already ran into multiple cases where there is an appended ruledata, but I don't really want to use that ruledata; I just want to copy the pattern into Golly. It's perfectly possible that you've got a use case there that I simply haven't been able to imagine. Ca...

I still think there should be a pop-up warning/confirmation message, before any attempts to use/save the rule data (if any). This would be more user-friendly, because you are not doing something that is likely to be unexpected. I'm not sure I understand the use case that you're worried about here. ...

Here's a trial rebuild along the lines suggested in the last post, which pulls the pieces 3 full diagonals closer. 25 still lifes, so only four more than the version where the pieces weren't quite close enough together. Here the Simkin glider gun can be trivially adjusted to be a little farther away...

Additionally, a Golly user may already have a "cosmetic" modification of the same rulefile (e.g. different palette; added comments) in their user rule directory. In that case, the existing rulefile should be used and should not be replaced. Andrew's post mentioned "(but only if there is no existing...

I got x = 62, y = 65, rule = LifeHistory 4$17.E$17.3E$20.E$19.2E5$23.2E$22.E.E$22.2E6$6.2E$7.E$7.E.E$8.2E2$15. 2E5.2E$14.E.E5.E.E$14.2E7.E.E$24.E$31.E$30.E.E$25.2E2.E.E$25.2E2.2E2$ 20.2E$20.E.E18.E$21.E18.E.E3.E$40.2E3.E.E6.E$33.2E10.E.E6.E.E$33.E.E 10.E7.2E$20.2E5.2E6.E$20.2E5.2E6.2E$51.2E$24.2E24...

Hippo.69 wrote: ↑

April 6th, 2024, 8:37 am

P120 LWSS gun...

Unfortunately I need simkin gun closer so I cannot use activation by the p120 stream.

How much closer do you need it? It looks like it should be possible to tighten that up by about ten or twelve cells diagonally, at least, at the cost of a few more still lifes.

This is going over earlier comments from several forum threads, related to updating the pattern collection. Thanks for doing the survey! I'll be reserving some more hours this weekend for going through this and doing more checkins. ( post180254 ) Please add the StateInvestigator patterns to the pat...

There's been some work recently on a project to clean up some of the over-use of the LifeWiki userspace for miscellaneous data storage. For a set of several hundred "data-dump" userspace pages related to photon partials, wwei47 mentioned that it would be okay to remove them from the LifeWiki if ther...

This belongs to the Sandbox if you style the first post in the topic like this. I figured I'd move it here since there's something to say about the "aperiodic" part that might be useful. Running this kind of thing in Golly really helps figure out what's going to happen in the long run. In the four-...

It's totally possible to "Quasar" the Honey ring to have 16+16n honey farms - this example has 48 honey farms (for n=2)... That's funny -- the quasarification / lake2 ification that I was thinking of was more like this (80 honey farms -- basically twenty honey-ring quadrants): x = 200, y = 200, rul...

Instead, a footnote for the 6G synthesis can link to https://web.archive.org/web/20240401170639/https://catagolue.hatsya.com/object/xs13_31248gzy21248c/b3s23 instead. This link provides an (incomplete) answer to "where this synthesis came from?" Here's hoping somebody will show up and give a defini...

When I earlier added the 8G synthesis , the intent was to create a place where subsequent improvements could be added, showing history of reductions. It is interesting to see how cheaper and cheaper glider syntheses were found over time. I think the old synthesis should be kept in the article, alon...

https://conwaylife.com/w/index.php?diff=148015&oldid=142352 The edit replaced a previously shown 8-glider synthesis for the object with a 6-glider synthesis. It did, indeed. The previously shown 8G synthesis should be restored, and a new viewer for the 6G synthesis should be added, with a different...

Here's a meta-blinker using the new cell: opnsrcmcblinker.mc.gz How did you create that .mc.gz file? It looks like it's actually a .ZIP file, renamed to .mc.gz. When you try to open it directly in Golly you don't get the right pattern at all. But when you extract it and open the .mc file that's hid...

Fair warning: this thread is starting to get reported, on the grounds that some posts can be read as unfriendly attacks on newcomers. Might get locked pretty quick if this keeps up. It's probably fine to describe some silly thing that you did yourself, with the idea that there ought to be a name for...