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Re: The Hunt for a Tiny Diagonal Spaceship
Posted: March 22nd, 2016, 7:06 am
by Alexey_Nigin
Thank you all!
drc wrote:How about an orthogonal search?
I have
done a small one.
Re: The Hunt for a Tiny Diagonal Spaceship
Posted: March 22nd, 2016, 9:44 am
by dvgrn
thunk wrote:Because I have plenty of impatience and spare cpu cycles, I went ahead and searched some of the spaces reserved by others. Apologies to bullet51, dvgrn, and muzik:
#6, #133-143 is empty; #172, #174, #175 only have trivial p5+p2 oscillator combinations.
I'm traveling this week, so thanks for taking over #133-143 for me.
It still seems just slightly worrisome that CopperSearch would throw away interesting things like diagonal c/8 or c/15 spaceships without reporting them. I suppose if a more efficient search program is set up to run a diagonal search with a few more bits added, then it will naturally re-search the smaller space and notice anything that was missed.
Of course there most likely isn't anything... but something new and amazing is sure to show up at
some number of bits.
Re: The Hunt for a Tiny Diagonal Spaceship
Posted: March 22nd, 2016, 10:07 am
by BlinkerSpawn
dvgrn wrote:It still seems just slightly worrisome that CopperSearch would throw away interesting things like diagonal c/8 or c/15 spaceships without reporting them. I suppose if a more efficient search program is set up to run a diagonal search with a few more bits added, then it will naturally re-search the smaller space and notice anything that was missed.
Of course there most likely isn't anything... but something new and amazing is sure to show up at some number of bits.
Speaking of which, biggiemac, how's this coming along?
biggiemac wrote:I'll give it some time this weekend. I think I can build from apgnano. Dare I expand the box of interest, perhaps to 37 cells?
Re: The Hunt for a Tiny Diagonal Spaceship
Posted: March 22nd, 2016, 12:29 pm
by biggiemac
BlinkerSpawn wrote:biggiemac, how's this coming along?
biggiemac wrote:I'll give it some time this weekend. I think I can build from apgnano. Dare I expand the box of interest, perhaps to 37 cells?
When I saw v0.4 had achieved a bigger speed up than I think apgnano would have given it, I refocused my efforts to running it instead of writing it. But I will maybe at least start looking at what can be built from apgmera this week.
Re: The Hunt for a Tiny Diagonal Spaceship (Unsuccessful)
Posted: March 22nd, 2016, 3:11 pm
by calcyman
biggiemac wrote:When I saw v0.4 had achieved a bigger speed up than I think apgnano would have given it, I refocused my efforts to running it instead of writing it. But I will maybe at least start looking at what can be built from apgmera this week.
The life-simulating algorithm in apgmera is in the file "vlife.h" (which #includes "params.h" together with a bunch of lifeasm-* and lifelogic-* files for different instruction sets). It contains an example program which runs the methuselah Lidka for 30k generations in 45ms -- by comparison, Golly's QuickLife is about three times slower (owing to the fact that vlife is explicitly compiled for the specific rule, whereas qlife resorts to using a lookup table) and HashLife even more so.
This Lidka example program can be called from apgmera's root directory by executing the file "vlifetest.cpp". (Yes, you read that correctly -- the file is simultaneously valid C++ source code
and a valid executable Bash script which compiles and executes itself as a C++ program!)
Re: The Hunt for a Tiny Diagonal Spaceship (Unsuccessful)
Posted: August 2nd, 2018, 9:20 pm
by Hdjensofjfnen
Anyone know how to hack this for different speeds?
I suppose it's something to do with line 388 to 400, specifically 394?
Code: Select all
for i:=1 to 41 do
begin
Step;
if Compare then
begin
if (((Offset.X <> 0) or (Offset.Y <> 0)) and (i <> 4)) or
(not (i in [1,2,3,4,5,6,8,15])) then // Change for debug
Save(EternalN,i);
Break;
end;
end;
until EternalN = MaxInd;
end;