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77topaz wrote:
I could do it, especially since I already have a spreadsheet set-up for the CGoL POTY 2018 competition that I could reuse.

Yes please

I am currently snowed under with work so, if someone else would volunteer to prepare the competition, I would be very grateful.

Naszvadi wrote:Where can we vote for the above list - don't even know if it is finalized yet?

Sorry, I have been quite busy!!
If nobody has any further suggestions I will create the voting post in about 16 hours or so.

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Here's a p6 180deg reflector based on this idea (slightly different spark) used in a p84 glider loop. Nice! Removing one of the blocks gives a fairly strong glider --> LoM converter: x = 37, y = 17, rule = B3/S23 bo$obo6b2o3b2o$bo8bo4bo2b2o$10bob3o3bo4b2o3b2o4bo$7b2obobo6bo3bobobo2b o2bobo$7bobo8b2...

As a first reduction (generic for all rule domains), if a pattern is endemic, all birth and survival conditions are used as well as the "no-birth" and death counterparts. For MAP rules, this seems like an absolute headache to analyse but there probably are some clever tricks. For many-state rules, w...

77topaz wrote:Thanks. Jormungant, Goldtiger997, A for Ampere, Rhombic, Entity Valkyrie, carybe, christoph.r and 2718281828 are all only known by their pseudonyms?

I am Edυаrdο Gаrcía Ρаdillа, but I am not sure if people would recognise me by that name as much as by Rhombic.

Building from this post , which I recommend reading for some background, shows the possibility of there being a monospecific rule containing an endemic object as its only object. Defining "monospecific rule" as a CA rule in which there only exists one stable object. "Endemic" was coined a while back...

The ripple effect is in fact a t-ship travelling through an opposite-direction t-ship stream. It goes through without being altered in any way. x = 390, y = 3, rule = B3-jkn4a/S1e2-a3ijnry4n o8bo8bo8bo8bo8bo8bo8bo8bo8bo8bo8bo8bo8bo8bo8bo8bo8bo8bo8bo8bo8bo8bo8bo 8bo8bo8bo8bo8bo8bo8bo8bo8bo8bo8bo8bo8b...

B/S0 already works, but in case people are really bothered about pseudo still lifes, then... x = 1, y = 1, rule = B2ikn/S0 o! EDIT: Honestly, shall we give a cash prize to whoever finds a rule that only has one stable object and the cardinality of that object is 1 (i.e. the total number of non-total...

Is slmake updated with the recipes found on the Catagolue b3s23/SS census?

Happy new year, fellow lifers. The OCA "D"OTY has certainly not been around that long; if I remember correctly, last year was the first one, organised and its results announced by yours truly. We followed the same voting system as with the CGoL POTY, which I think worked very well and showed a fairl...

AforAmpere wrote:Are we doing the one, two and three star thing from previous years?

I was about to point this out - I think we all agreed late year that this system was particularly good.
Everyone will be able to vote (0,) 1, 2 or 3 stars for as many patterns as you wish.

My laptop is currently being repaired so no apgsearch for me for a few days... but this rule I find interesting enough to share with you: x = 58, y = 10, rule = B3-nry5/S2-in3-a4-r 7bo15b2o31b2o$5b5o13bo2bo27bo2bo$5b5o20bo25b2o$4b2o2b2o14bo3b2obo$3bob o21b2ob2o$b4o2b2o18bobo$b2o4b2o$3o2b2o2bo$b3ob2o...

Will apgsearch this rule:

OCA has reached 19000 posts.

EDIT: UNSEARCHABLE ; could someone find a way to limit its uncommon explosiveness? This is a neat rule (b2e3ains12) and features some spaceships that I found by hand. I wonder what apgsearch will show. Currently searching... x = 7, y = 15, rule = B2e3ain/S12 b2o$o$bo$5bo$3bobo$4bo4$5bo$4bobo$6bo$2b...

and it has this obvious synthesis (given the p5 ship): x = 34, y = 28, rule = B2ei3-aeqr4rtwyz5ajkny6ac7c/S1c2cei3aiknq4aqyz5ci6-ce7e $22bo9b2o$32bo$21b2o10bo$21b2o$21b4obo$19b6o$12b2o2b3ob2o$12bo5bo2bo$ 11bo2bo4b2o$14bo2bo2bo$15bo4bo$13b2obo$10b3o2bob2o$12bo2bo4bo$9bobob2o 4b2o$9bo2bobo3bo$8b3o3bo...

I am not entirely sure if I have read their posts before (as in a few months ago) and every time I see the name I think about it again.

However, Why does it give this as a valid result? Because the solution is accepted at generation 18 once the catalysts have been restored and then stable for (stable-interval = 10) generations. With your search parameters the check of the population doesn't start until generation 35, so that never ...

I am not entirely sure how to use it, let's say I had the following case where the bounding box with two padded cells would represent the Bellman input [x+2,y+2]: Actually it's a good tip to always try to keep the evolving pattern within the first tile, which is 0-63 in both directions. If a patter...

B2e34yz/S2-e4-jkn5-kry6ace is a slowish rule to search (~350 soups a second) but has interesting dynamics that are not that common.

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) &...

But I still can't use bellman!!! WHY DID NOBODY REPLY ME??? Can you say what you have done and what error appears? Go on cygwin, move to the folder with your Bellman and do this: gcc bellman.c bitwise.h evolve_bitwise.c evolve_simple.c lib.c lib.h readfile.c readwrite.h textconv.c universe.c univer...

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) &...