A newbie problem with gencols(Edit: Solved)
Posted: September 11th, 2014, 7:52 am
(Oh this post is pretty long)
Some time ago I was crazy about schick engines. I spent quite a lot of time perturbing its debris with *WSSs by hand trying to make an interesting puffer. Well, that turned out to be a seconds-worth task using gencols... Or did it?
Well... Today I learned how to use gencols and the first thing I did was gencolling schick engines with *WSSs. It did produce some nice puffers, but... The problem is that it couldn't find some patterns I found by hand. Can anybody find some mistake in the parameters? This search is nothing more serious than a gencols walkathrough. I'm just worried that I might omit some good patterns in future searches.
Here's the command line script.
I ran the patterns (Schick engine + *WSS both heading east) for 60 generations and filtered the ones that do make a puffer (or spaceship). The schick engine is symmetric along the x axis, so I just let the nph paramater as 2.
Here's the result.
and it didn't contain spaceships like these... and maybe more.
(the mwss positions in the 2nd and 3rd puffers are slightly different but they puff the same thing)
And one more thing.
Combining the 1st and 2nd(or 3rd) pattern above makes a p24 rake.
I think nobody used this p24 rake in patterns.(And yes, I did (re-)find it by hand.) I think people used the one with two HWSSs instead. Was it because they couldn't find this pattern with gencols or was it just a matter of optimization?
(Sorry for any mistakes in English...)
Some time ago I was crazy about schick engines. I spent quite a lot of time perturbing its debris with *WSSs by hand trying to make an interesting puffer. Well, that turned out to be a seconds-worth task using gencols... Or did it?
Well... Today I learned how to use gencols and the first thing I did was gencolling schick engines with *WSSs. It did produce some nice puffers, but... The problem is that it couldn't find some patterns I found by hand. Can anybody find some mistake in the parameters? This search is nothing more serious than a gencols walkathrough. I'm just worried that I might omit some good patterns in future searches.
Here's the command line script.
I ran the patterns (Schick engine + *WSS both heading east) for 60 generations and filtered the ones that do make a puffer (or spaceship). The schick engine is symmetric along the x axis, so I just let the nph paramater as 2.
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gencols -pat obj/schick.life obj/allss_e.list -nph 2 -tc 9 21 -gen 61 -test1 obj/schick_tr30.life -del2 -filt ap > schickbasedpuf.colCode: Select all
#O schick.life
#P
.....****
....*...*
........*
**..*..*.
***......
**..*..*.
........*
....*...*
.....****
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#O schick_tr30.life
#P
...................................****
..................................*...*
......................................*
..............................**..*..*.
..............................***......
..............................**..*..*.
......................................*
..................................*...*
...................................****
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x = 19, y = 1313, rule = B3/S23
2b2o$o4bo$6bo$o5bo$b6o3$10b4o$9bo3bo$13bo$5b2o2bo2bo$5b3o$5b2o2bo2bo$
13bo$9bo3bo$10b4o85$2b2o$o4bo$6bo$o5bo$b6o3$13b4o$12bo3bo$16bo$8b2o2bo
2bo$8b3o$8b2o2bo2bo$16bo$12bo3bo$13b4o85$15b4o$14bo3bo$18bo$10b2o2bo2b
o$10b3o$10b2o2bo2bo$18bo$14bo3bo$15b4o$2b2o$o4bo$6bo$o5bo$b6o87$2b2o$o
4bo$6bo$o5bo$b6o3$15b4o$14bo3bo$18bo$10b2o2bo2bo$10b3o$10b2o2bo2bo$18b
o$14bo3bo$15b4o85$15b4o$14bo3bo$18bo$10b2o2bo2bo$10b3o$10b2o2bo2bo$18b
o$14bo3bo$15b4o2$4b2o$4ob2o$6o$b4o87$10b4o$9bo3bo$13bo$5b2o2bo2bo$5b3o
$5b2o2bo2bo$13bo$9bo3bo$10b4o3$4b2o$4ob2o$6o$b4o86$13b4o$12bo3bo$16bo$
8b2o2bo2bo$8b3o$8b2o2bo2bo$16bo$12bo3bo$13b4o3$4b2o$4ob2o$6o$b4o86$11b
4o$10bo3bo$14bo$6b2o2bo2bo$6b3o$6b2o2bo2bo$14bo$10bo3bo$11b4o3$4b2o$4o
b2o$6o$b4o86$10b4o$9bo3bo$13bo$5b2o2bo2bo$5b3o$5b2o2bo2bo$13bo$9bo3bo$
10b4o$o2bo$4bo$o3bo$b4o88$10b4o$9bo3bo$13bo$5b2o2bo2bo$5b3o$5b2o2bo2bo
$13bo$9bo3bo$10b4o$2b2o$2ob2o$4o$b2o88$2bo$o3bo$5bo$o4bo$b5o2$14b4o$
13bo3bo$17bo$9b2o2bo2bo$9b3o$9b2o2bo2bo$17bo$13bo3bo$14b4o86$2bo$o3bo$
5bo$o4bo$b5o3$15b4o$14bo3bo$18bo$10b2o2bo2bo$10b3o$10b2o2bo2bo$18bo$
14bo3bo$15b4o85$2bo$o3bo$5bo$o4bo$b5o3$14b4o$13bo3bo$17bo$9b2o2bo2bo$
9b3o$9b2o2bo2bo$17bo$13bo3bo$14b4o85$3b2o$3ob2o$5o$b3o$12b4o$11bo3bo$
15bo$7b2o2bo2bo$7b3o$7b2o2bo2bo$15bo$11bo3bo$12b4o!
and it didn't contain spaceships like these... and maybe more.
(the mwss positions in the 2nd and 3rd puffers are slightly different but they puff the same thing)
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x = 20, y = 210, rule = B3/S23
4b2o$4ob2o$6o$b4o$11b4o$10bo3bo$14bo$6b2o2bo2bo$6b3o$6b2o2bo2bo$14bo$
10bo3bo$11b4o92$14b4o$13bo3bo$17bo$9b2o2bo2bo$9b3o$9b2o2bo2bo$17bo$13b
o3bo$14b4o$7b2o$4b3ob2o$4b5o$5b3o81$16b4o$15bo3bo$19bo$11b2o2bo2bo$11b
3o$11b2o2bo2bo$19bo$15bo3bo$16b4o$8b2o$5b3ob2o$5b5o$6b3o!
And one more thing.
Combining the 1st and 2nd(or 3rd) pattern above makes a p24 rake.
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x = 15, y = 17, rule = B3/S23
4b2o$4ob2o$6o$b4o$11b4o$10bo3bo$14bo$6b2o2bo2bo$6b3o$6b2o2bo2bo$14bo$
10bo3bo$11b4o$4b2o$b3ob2o$b5o$2b3o!
(Sorry for any mistakes in English...)