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Avengium wrote: ↑

October 25th, 2021, 2:31 pm

Maybe you could name it if it's your discovery.

I saw your post on some alternative rules called 熠熠种花 - Glimmering Garden (B3-jknr4ity5ijk6i8/S23-a4city6c7c). That rules look great too.

—Indeed. commented by yujh

You don’t have to name everything, if you do so, you are actually getting into some trouble. But it is just my personal opinion. Also if you want to try smooth life you might want https://github.com/gollygang/ready

Howdy, I'm Nessie, and I just started playing with Golly the other day after looking up Mystic Smoke on wikipedia (where i learned that the term i was after was Magic Smoke) and falling into a rabbithole of software engineering that eventually landed me on the page for CGOL. I like to draw, and like games that involve science, apparently. Kerbal Space Program's another one I play with. I made a forum account after happening on a weird pattern after writing something in cursive using a drawing tablet and i didn't know how to search to see if it's a known phenomenon. The lexicon is extremely confusing, but considering that i play Dwarf Fortress, the learning curve for which has been described as a 'cliff' i'll probably get the hang of it eventually.

my one big question is if anyone's managed to run DOOM in CGOL yet.

Hi I'm Jakub. I think Game of Life is fascinating and cool thing to code.

Hello, I stumbled up on this site after playing wordle awhile and my brain connecting the wordle score grid with something from CGoL. Such a cool community here that I see! It was so easy to do the thing I wanted to do, which was convert wordle scores to something runnable in Life.

I made this little web-app, as you can see in a different thread.

Doing this little project opened my eyes to all this crazy Conway stuff that is way more interesting than I had imagined. It's been a long time since I learned about it in school.

Anyway, I just wanted to say hi and say I did this (obviously very minor) thing, and leveraged cool resources here.

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Hello. My name is Period1GliderGun, and I like to play around with non-totalistic rules.

Period1GliderGun wrote: ↑

March 9th, 2022, 2:33 pm

Hello. My name is Period1GliderGun, and I like to play around with non-totalistic rules.

Welcome! That was a lot of viewer tags, so they got converted into code tags -- and introductions don't usually go in their own thread, or we'd have hundreds of people introducing themselves in their own lonely little threads, so your post got reported and then moved here.

Sorry about that. We don't always treat newcomers in the friendliest possible way -- in particular, people have a strange habit of grumpily reporting posts that don't measure up to the "community standards" without actually responding directly to the problematic message, even if it's a complete newcomer doing the posting. But we do mostly mean well.

I discovered Conway's Game of Life sometime in 2021. (I usually forget dates; I typically remember years, if I remember anything, in that situation). I got "Simple Game of Life" by Dmitry Sinyov when I wasn't very far into it, but I got Golly later, and boy, it works well!
I've experimented quite a bit since I first heard about it, and I'm working on something really big. (Hint: I spent a day memorizing LV's commands, and I got frustrated with 2 hours of errors. [insert :diablo: from AoPS here])
Abbreviations:

Hello! i am pretty new here, i got into it by just finding it, and now im hooked. so yeah

nice golly
By the way, I'm new, too. I was fascinated by the patten of "Breeder".

Hi everyone... I'm new, but I'm not new. I just joined today, but I have been following these forums for several years now, since before Sir Robin existed, I think.

I'll mostly be hanging around the OCA forums because I like Wireworld and its variants the most. I'm less interested in Life and other two state cellular automata.

Welcome here , you all newbies ! Hope that you like this place !
Good morning / afternoon / evening / night !
Enjoy your life and all the best !
Have a suuuuperior day !

BokaBB

Hey I'm new, and I have about nothing to say except that I'm careless and one fifth of my posts turned out to be rediscoveries. Also, I love playing simple 2D games (and also love making them).
I wanna Advertise this map.
I'm someone who loves hanging around the sandbox but don't make much discoveries.

Hey - I'm new, and have an unhealthy obsession with growing spaceships.
I got into Life (and CAs in general) through a friend, who should be around here... somewhere.

Hi,
Today, I'm going to stop lurking.
(Yes, I'm new here.)

~ stheia

Hi, I'm new here but I have been a fan of cellular automata for a long time. I have studied many kinds of rules in a hexagonal grid using a self-written program. None of them were quite as interesting or versatile as the Game of Life but some came close. I might share some of the stuff I found at some point but this is probably the wrong place for that. In Life, I recently found an 8-cell diehard in 5x7 bounding box with a lifespan of 140. Probably not particularly significant but I have been unable to find almost any information about diehards with a small population and bounding box, other than the classic and well known 7-cell diehard with a lifespan of 130. Has anyone ever looked further, e.g. for a given n, what is the longest lasting n-cell diehard in an nxn bounding box? I would love to hear.

Hi! I am almost new here, I have been interested in CGoL and other ceular automata for 1 year. I'm 12, and I am Russian, so my English isn't good, but I often read English sites or forums, so I'm good at understanding english. I love programming and maths. I know Python, C++, HTMl, CSS, JS. I like doing syntheses of oscillators and like writing Golly scripts. Also, I have a few rules. Unfortunately, I have Windows, and I can't run apg search for them . My rules:
B35r/S234jwy
B3-q4ety/S2-c34i
B3-r5-ny/S234jtz
B34-aiw/S234t
B3-y4jkt/S2-c36k
B3-r4cenq6/S23-i4twy6-a

Hello!!! I am hotwheels9232. I am already here for 3 months, but I haven't introduced myself. I love custom rules and OCA, but I don't research any OCA which can be written in that B2-k/S3a format found by other people except 38life. See the Symbiosis thread for me.

hi.

i've been checking the forums outside of this account a lot, but have never gotten a chance to meet all of you...
but here i am (finally)! i'm really interested in sparks (no, not sparkers, but just sparks). but, i also have a lot of other things i like, like conduitry (of course, everyone here loves conduitry)! the thing is, i have no idea how people can find conduits (and oscillators) this fast. if i knew how, i'd make around 2 conduits (and oscillators) every single day. anyways, that's all about me.

also, i exist.

EDIT: oh, my, goodness. i almost forgot about something super important. i'm INSANELY interested in seeds.

for example, here's the 12 cell "bi-pulsar" predecessor.
and did anyone notice that it could also be skewed?
i'll meet you next time i have something to say.

get_Snacked wrote: ↑

August 21st, 2022, 3:02 pm

hi.

i've been checking the forums outside of this account a lot, but have never gotten a chance to meet all of you...
but here i am (finally)! i'm really interested in sparks (no, not sparkers, but just sparks). but, i also have a lot of other things i like, like conduitry (of course, everyone here loves conduitry)! the thing is, i have no idea how people can find conduits (and oscillators) this fast. if i knew how, i'd make around 2 conduits (and oscillators) every single day. anyways, that's all about me.

also, i exist.

EDIT: oh, my, goodness. i almost forgot about something super important. i'm INSANELY interested in seeds.

for example, here's the 12 cell "bi-pulsar" predecessor.

Code: Select all

x = 25, y = 9, rule = LifeHistory
3D3.3D7.3D3.3D$D.D3.D.D7.D.D3.D.D$3D3.3D7.3D3.3D2$5.3A9.3A$7.A9.A$3D2.
A3D7.3DA2.3D$D.D3.C.D7.D.C3.D.D$3D3.3D7.3D3.3D!

and did anyone notice that it could also be skewed?

Code: Select all

x = 25, y = 11, rule = LifeHistory
16.3D3.3D$16.D.D3.D.D$3D3.3D7.3D3.3D$D.D3.D.D$3D3.3D8.3A$17.A$5.3A8.3D
A2.3D$7.A8.D.C3.D.D$3D2.A3D7.3D3.3D$D.D3.C.D$3D3.3D!

i'll meet you next time i have something to say.

You need to use search programs to find oscillators and conduits. Here is one that finds oscillators and spaceships:
rlifesrc. There are much better search programs like JLS and WLS, but I think you'll need compiling.

Hi, i'm joueureletrique, and i'm new here, you may find me in the future maybe still online, maybe not.

joueureletrique wrote: ↑

September 12th, 2022, 4:00 pm

Hi, i'm joueureletrique, and i'm new here, you may find me in the future maybe still online, maybe not.

Hi and welcome to the forums! I'm also a newcomer here (although I've been following this place for nearly a year now so I know some stuff). Being a newcomer, I know it gets a little awkard with me here and there, but I manage

HotWheels9232 wrote: ↑

August 21st, 2022, 8:17 pm

get_Snacked wrote: ↑

August 21st, 2022, 3:02 pm

hi.

i've been checking the forums outside of this account a lot, but have never gotten a chance to meet all of you...
but here i am (finally)! i'm really interested in sparks (no, not sparkers, but just sparks). but, i also have a lot of other things i like, like conduitry (of course, everyone here loves conduitry)! the thing is, i have no idea how people can find conduits (and oscillators) this fast. if i knew how, i'd make around 2 conduits (and oscillators) every single day. anyways, that's all about me.

also, i exist.

EDIT: oh, my, goodness. i almost forgot about something super important. i'm INSANELY interested in seeds.

for example, here's the 12 cell "bi-pulsar" predecessor.

Code: Select all

x = 25, y = 9, rule = LifeHistory
3D3.3D7.3D3.3D$D.D3.D.D7.D.D3.D.D$3D3.3D7.3D3.3D2$5.3A9.3A$7.A9.A$3D2.
A3D7.3DA2.3D$D.D3.C.D7.D.C3.D.D$3D3.3D7.3D3.3D!

and did anyone notice that it could also be skewed?

Code: Select all

x = 25, y = 11, rule = LifeHistory
16.3D3.3D$16.D.D3.D.D$3D3.3D7.3D3.3D$D.D3.D.D$3D3.3D8.3A$17.A$5.3A8.3D
A2.3D$7.A8.D.C3.D.D$3D2.A3D7.3D3.3D$D.D3.C.D$3D3.3D!

i'll meet you next time i have something to say.

You need to use search programs to find oscillators and conduits. Here is one that finds oscillators and spaceships:
rlifesrc. There are much better search programs like JLS and WLS, but I think you'll need compiling.

where can i find links for JLS and WLS downloads (or websites if they're not downloads)?

get_Snacked wrote: ↑

September 15th, 2022, 8:18 pm

where can i find links for JLS and WLS downloads (or websites if they're not downloads)?

Wiki pages WinLifeSearch, JavaLifeSearch have some more information.

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