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Clean puffer
Let the period of the main engine of a puffer be P. Then a puffer is clean if and only if its overall period is equal to P.
Dirty puffer
A puffer is dirty if and only if its overall period is a multiple of P due to the puffer's exhaust.
Let the period of the main engine of a puffer be P. Then a puffer is clean if and only if its overall period is equal to P.
Dirty puffer
A puffer is dirty if and only if its overall period is a multiple of P due to the puffer's exhaust.
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So this puffer is clean? (run in Golly for at least 100 thousand generations to see the puffer-ness)
Also, with this example, it's sort of hard to tell where the engine is. Similarly, what would be the engine of a caterpillar, an HBK, or a Gemini?
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Gen 3300: NAZISMtoroidalet wrote: ↑January 7th, 2020, 1:54 amSo this puffer is clean? (run in Golly for at least 100 thousand generations to see the puffer-ness)Also, with this example, it's sort of hard to tell where the engine is. Similarly, what would be the engine of a caterpillar, an HBK, or a Gemini?Code: Select all
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I think y'all already know what Athenic and Thessalonic means.
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No, I haven't been able to figure it out. I could make vague guesses that might happen to be right, but there aren't enough specific examples to rule out other possibilities, and no definitions anywhere that I can find.Entity Valkyrie 2 wrote: ↑February 23rd, 2020, 4:05 amI think y'all already know what Athenic and Thessalonic means.
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Magic (in the narrower definition): Combining multiple engines to create spaceships, puffers, rakes or guns.
Magical person: A person who is able to perform Magic.
Corderizing/AbhpzTaing: The activity of combining multiple engines.
Magical person: A person who is able to perform Magic.
Corderizing/AbhpzTaing: The activity of combining multiple engines.
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Laminar: a descriptor for a wickstretcher (or growing ship or wick ship) stretching a wick with both spatial and temporal period 1 (i.e. one or more line wicks of arbitrary thickness).
Example of a laminar wickstretcher:
Example of a laminar wickstretcher:
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Re: Create your own terminology
Paragonal spaceship: a spaceship in a 3D or higher CA with displacement (x,x,x)
Metagonal spaceship: a spaceship in a 4D or higher CA with displacement (x,x,x,x)
Metagonal spaceship: a spaceship in a 4D or higher CA with displacement (x,x,x,x)
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Then how to call "a spaceship in a 5D or higher CA with displacement (x,x,x,x,x)"? I don't see how the concept of orthogonal (as opposed to diagonal etc) is related to the prefix "ortho-" (as opposed to meta- and para- in arene chemistry).
I would prefer Moosey's suggestion because it is more generalizable:
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"Skywriter" - a suggested name for patterns like the one on the top of the Golly page. They can be puffers, guns, or rakes. (Sorry, I don't know how to actually define this)
"Metronome" - a suggested name for periodic patterns with adjustable period. This name might be obscure.
"Metronome" - a suggested name for periodic patterns with adjustable period. This name might be obscure.
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That's golly-ticker.rle, and therefore no new name invention is needed. Have you been familiar with all of the golly patterns?ColorfulGalaxy wrote: ↑February 11th, 2021, 7:04 am"Skywriter" - a suggested name for patterns like the one on the top of the Golly page. ...
Like adjustable glider loops or spaceships/rakes with adjustable period?"Metronome" - a suggested name for periodic patterns with adjustable period. This name might be obscure.
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NCCA: Naive Cleanup Cost Addition: A way of estimating the cost of cleaning up a constellation by adding up the individual cleanup costs of each subpattern in the constellation.
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If we find a smaller snark and/or one with a lower repeat time, it should be called the baby snark (doo doo doo doo doo doo).
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Periods discovered: 5-16,⑱,⑳G,㉑G,㉒㉔㉕,㉗-㉛,㉜SG,㉞㉟㊱㊳㊵㊷㊹㊺㊽㊿,54G,55G,56,57G,60,62-66,68,70,73,74S,75,76S,80,84,88,90,96
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Periods discovered: 5-16,⑱,⑳G,㉑G,㉒㉔㉕,㉗-㉛,㉜SG,㉞㉟㊱㊳㊵㊷㊹㊺㊽㊿,54G,55G,56,57G,60,62-66,68,70,73,74S,75,76S,80,84,88,90,96
100,02S,06,08,10,12,14G,16,17G,20,26G,28,38,47,48,54,56,72,74,80,92,96S
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I don't think that it should be called Corderizing because Charles Corderman did not arrange switch engines so that their debris cancels out. Corderships are instead called Corderships because the unstable puffer that serves as their engine was discovered by Charles Corderman. Unless that puffer is the switch engine, the act of arranging multiple copies of a puffer (whether stable or unstable) so that their debris cancels out should be named after the first person to arrange puffer engines so that their debris cancels out, i.e. it should be called Hickerizing, not Corderizing.
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The Herschel bears resemblance to the symbol of Saturn.
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I didn't know that! Neat! I just assumed they were called corderships because the uncorderized puffers/rakes would leave behind a trail of objects resembling a cord. And corderships usually involve terminating that 'cord' with more of the same puffer/rake.MathAndCode wrote: ↑March 3rd, 2021, 6:37 pmI don't think that it should be called Corderizing because Charles Corderman did not arrange switch engines so that their debris cancels out. Corderships are instead called Corderships because the unstable puffer that serves as their engine was discovered by Charles Corderman. Unless that puffer is the switch engine, the act of arranging multiple copies of a puffer (whether stable or unstable) so that their debris cancels out should be named after the first person to arrange puffer engines so that their debris cancels out, i.e. it should be called Hickerizing, not Corderizing.
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That's mentioned on the wiki page.
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so did you get my point or not
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I didn't get it at first, but I get it now.
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a vertical hive looks like a hive
a horizontal hive looks like an egg
the numeral eight represents vertical
8 infinity 8
( and I know that you did not even know that there were two different kinds )
a horizontal hive looks like an egg
the numeral eight represents vertical
8 infinity 8
( and I know that you did not even know that there were two different kinds )
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Can you stop nitpicking? It's the convention. Note I said Corderizing, not Cordermanning, that's the act of making a cordership (-like object).MathAndCode wrote: ↑March 3rd, 2021, 6:37 pmI don't think that it should be called Corderizing because Charles Corderman did not arrange switch engines so that their debris cancels out. Corderships are instead called Corderships because the unstable puffer that serves as their engine was discovered by Charles Corderman. Unless that puffer is the switch engine, the act of arranging multiple copies of a puffer (whether stable or unstable) so that their debris cancels out should be named after the first person to arrange puffer engines so that their debris cancels out, i.e. it should be called Hickerizing, not Corderizing.
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Borrowing from the Rubik's Cube community, we could use the term God's Number to refer to the the number of gliders needed to synthesise any synthesisable still life. In other words the number bounded by 4 ≤ G < 18 from the exhaustive enumeration of all 3G collisions and the RCT.