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I haven't seen anyone else asking a question like this, so there doesn't seem to be much call for such a program or script. If this is an one-off then it would be easier to produce the pattern by hand. I have constructed such a puffer and include it in a reply to the original request in the patterns...

I don't know whether this is the cheapest or most compact solution, but it works. It uses fourteen p168 forward rakes and incorporates the LWSS-catalysed forward glider->block reaction suggested by Jason Summers replying to the related topic in the scripts forum . Presumably you have an interesting ...

Wojowu wrote:

It don't work for me : (

It doesn't work for me now either, it seems that Microsoft have helped me out again. Try this link and download "mss-breeder.zip".

Wojoju wrote: Only difference is that I thought about oneDimensional neighbourhood of Golly. Eh? Oh! I see now. I've been using Golly 2.1 and didn't realise that Golly 2.2 (which I've now installed) supported this neighbourhood. It makes the rule table a lot clearer and with your nice triangle start...

Wojowu wrote: Could you make oneDimensional version of this? You mean where evolution simply happens on a single line and thus only one generation is displayed at a time? If that is what you mean then it is just a simple edit of the table file. I have included such tables in the .zip file below. The...

An interesting challenge! Here's a simulation of Mazoyer's 6-state solution. The .zip file contains a width 243 starting pattern and the .table and colors file. To view this pattern, simply open the .zip file in Golly and run it. If you extract the .table and .colors files to your Golly Rules folder...

Take a look in Jason Summers' pattern collection, downloadable from http://entropymine.com/jason/life/ . You won't find a lot of them I'm afraid. To the best of my knowledge, the only c/4 puffer engines in existence are a p28 c/4 diagonal puffer found by Hartmut Holzwart and a p168 orthogonal puffer...

Nice one! Thanks also to Sokwe for the rake. Throwing rubbish into the puffer exhaust can create a p18 spaceship or p72 puffer. Examples of both of these types already exist, but as far as I know each these are new. Perhaps a use could be found for them. x = 80, y = 58, rule = B3/S23 6b2o17b2o25b3o1...

Andrew wrote: I can't reproduce this. ... Can you describe in more detail exactly what you did? Now I can't reproduce it either. Sorry! :oops: I thought that I'd pasted the edited pattern into Golly but it clearly didn't happen that way. The files in my working directory suggest that I invoked the c...

Andrew wrote: This only happens if these 2 conditions are true: 1. The file is saved with exactly the same name and extension. It also happens when the pattern is pasted into Golly, and therefore has no original filename or extension. Again, the "Save extended RLE" option must be unticked. This is h...

There is an easy fix that doesn't require unnecessary programming. Convert it to 'correct' Life 1.05 format by putting this line at the start of the file: #Life 1.05 Golly seems perfectly happy with the pattern posted above when this line is present. It does do something strange though: it retains t...

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gbagcn wrote: What makes the game of life so much better than other CA? The fact that it is so much more unpredictable than any randomly selected CA marks it out for distinction. It isn't so much that this particular CA is 'better', it's because it is more interesting than many. There are historical...

Macbi wrote:

How does one even find the 1-generation ancestors of a pattern quickly?

Lookup the -p (parent option) for lifesrc. Maybe it also works for the derived program, WLS. I haven't checked.

dvgrn wrote: And a lot of combined-*WSS-with-tagalongs, like the Big A spaceship -- more special cases... Hmm, yes, that's me shooting from the hip. The basic point I was trying to make though is that 'unnatural' spaceships like the Spider, those that came out of computer searches, are difficult to ...

Mark Niemiec's site has a seven glider synthesis for this. Basically, 3g -> LWSS #1, 2g -> block, 2g + block -> LWSS #2. x = 67, y = 9 45bobo$45b2o$38b3o5bo11b3x3b3x$5bo32bo2bo16bx2bxbx2bx$3bobo19b2x11bo6b 2o11bx7bx$4b2o19b2x11bo6b2o11bx7bx$b2o36bobo6b3o8bxbxbxbx$obo45bo$2bo 46bo! This new recipe ha...

18booster wrote: Is it known how to synthesize a c/5 spider from gliders (and possibly other tools such as b[l]ocks and blinkers)? No. The only spaceships in Life which have constructions are the standard spaceships (i.e the glider, LWSS, MWSS & HWSS, but then you knew that), some Corderships and a ...

Knightlife wrote: I noticed the term "factory" being used in the pattern collection under Golly's breeder examples This is another term with a troublesome definition. From the latest (2006) version of Stephen Silvers Life Lexicon: Another word for gun, but not used in the case of glider guns. The te...

Axaj wrote: the link up top is broken for me Hmm. Has anyone else had a problem with this link? Just out of interest what do you get when you click on it? I've uploaded the three macrocell files in that archive as separate attachments to the original post. Individually they just come under the file ...

Karatorian wrote: P.S. Any pointers to additional information regarding the Pianola constructor? I'm afraid that for the time being, what you see is what you get. A month ago it was just a germ of an idea in the back of my head and I tend to follow a fairly old school programming methodology: 10 Fin...

Keiji wrote: I'm pretty sure the usual definition of "breeder" is any object which produces objects which produce objects Thank you. You have simply paraphrased my definition above, and in doing so, reinforced my conviction that growth rate is insignificant as far as most people are concerned. You w...

137ben wrote: It[']s also not clear whether a spacefiller is a breeder. It grows faster than most breeders, but doesn't fit the usual sense of a "breeder" Thank you. It was to hear what you, and others, thought of as "the usual sense of a 'breeder'" that I raised this topic. To me, it is clear why a...

... continued (I exceeded the maximum character limit) An SMS-type breeder is also possible. Here is a Pianola pattern that fires block laying switch engines: #CXRLE Pos=-9429,252 x = 18858, y = 9417 9117b2o$9117b2o$9737b2o$9737b2o34$9131bo594bo$9129b3o594b3o$9105bo22b o600bo22bo$9093bo11b3o20b2o598...

The "super breeders?" topic had the side effect of sparking off some discussion of what the definition of a breeder is. My dissatifaction with the published definitions led me to create a few breeders which challenge these definitions. I have started this topic to share these patterns and hopefully ...

I have a simpler remedy. The Golly/Python script below strips out leading whitespace from anything in the clipboard. To install it, just save it into your Golly Scripts/Python folder as fixrle.py or somesuch. To use it, click the "Select All" link on the web page, copy to clipboard, and then in Goll...