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Re: Pattern viewer for forum threads

Post by rowett » September 8th, 2024, 9:47 am

Citation needed wrote:
September 8th, 2024, 1:05 am
The cogwheel button in this pattern occasionally fails.
If by fails you mean gets greyed out then this will happen if the height of the viewer is small. This is by design.

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Re: Pattern viewer for forum threads

Post by confocaloid » September 19th, 2024, 12:44 am

The pattern in the following quote doesn't display correctly (due to CXRLE it settles into a still life), and there seems to be no error message to inform the user that something went wrong:
MikeP wrote:
October 20th, 2020, 3:49 pm
Yup, it's easy to construct agars with arbitrarily large periods.

What about naturally occurring ones, though?

The other day I found this one, which appears to be p9440 on the face of it, though it's actually only p590 if you take the symmetry into account:

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#CXRLE Pos=0,0 Gen=0
x = 31, y = 32, rule = B3/S23:T31,32
5b2o12b2ob2o$19b2obo3b2o$21bo4b2o7$16b3o$15bo2bo$14bo4bo$12b2o2bob3o5b
o$15bo2bo5bo2bo$11bobobo8bo2b2o$13bo2bo10b2o$11b2o12b2ob2o$21b2o3bob2o
$21b2o4bo7$2o28bo$2bo27bo$3bo25bo$bo2b2o16bo5b3o$2bo18bo2bo5bo$2bobobo
13b2o2bo$bo2bo15b2o!
It works correctly without CXRLE:

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x = 31, y = 32, rule = B3/S23:T31,32
5b2o12b2ob2o$19b2obo3b2o$21bo4b2o7$16b3o$15bo2bo$14bo4bo$12b2o2bob3o5b
o$15bo2bo5bo2bo$11bobobo8bo2b2o$13bo2bo10b2o$11b2o12b2ob2o$21b2o3bob2o
$21b2o4bo7$2o28bo$2bo27bo$3bo25bo$bo2b2o16bo5b3o$2bo18bo2bo5bo$2bobobo
13b2o2bo$bo2bo15b2o!
127:1 B3/S234c User:Confocal/R (isotropic CA, incomplete)
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Re: Pattern viewer for forum threads

Post by rowett » September 19th, 2024, 2:30 am

confocaloid wrote:
September 19th, 2024, 12:44 am
The pattern in the following quote doesn't display correctly (due to CXRLE it settles into a still life), and there seems to be no error message to inform the user that something went wrong
There's no error here. The pattern is positioned correctly with the CXRLE specification.

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Re: Pattern viewer for forum threads

Post by unname4798 » September 19th, 2024, 7:37 am

rowett wrote:
September 19th, 2024, 2:30 am
confocaloid wrote:
September 19th, 2024, 12:44 am
The pattern in the following quote doesn't display correctly (due to CXRLE it settles into a still life), and there seems to be no error message to inform the user that something went wrong
There's no error here. The pattern is positioned correctly with the CXRLE specification.
The pattern is positioned incorrectly with the CXRLE specification.
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Re: Pattern viewer for forum threads

Post by rowett » September 19th, 2024, 10:09 am

unname4798 wrote:
September 19th, 2024, 7:37 am
The pattern is positioned incorrectly with the CXRLE specification.
Try the pattern in Golly.

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Re: Pattern viewer for forum threads

Post by unname4798 » September 19th, 2024, 10:15 am

rowett wrote:
September 19th, 2024, 10:09 am
unname4798 wrote:
September 19th, 2024, 7:37 am
The pattern is positioned incorrectly with the CXRLE specification.
Try the pattern in Golly.
I can't have an app, and I can't run Golly on web
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Re: Pattern viewer for forum threads

Post by rowett » September 19th, 2024, 10:28 am

unname4798 wrote:
September 19th, 2024, 10:15 am
I can't have an app, and I can't run Golly on web
OK. It's correct and it functions the same way in Golly.

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