Can hashlife draw a long line?
Posted: March 12th, 2018, 4:00 pm
I'm trying to make a diagonal line at least 20,000 cells in length. I don't know if you can tweak the code in Golly to draw things from a program perspective (like draw a diagonal line 20,000 cells in length) or can you do that in hashlife? Can you zoom in and out in hashlife like in Golly?
hashlife: http://tomas.rokicki.com/hlife/
Basically I'm trying to find something as fast as golly, but can automate drawing a single diagonal line (I'm currently copying and pasting in Golly). I don't think I need to used hashlife for the purpose of finding a pattern in the far future because the pattern is explosive (and thus the central area would be too large if it's way in the future and would completely bog down). The pattern is a small central area with four very long diagonals emanating from it. 4 runners shoot down the diagonals and when the runners reach the end of their line, I start recording the video of the central area. Just copying and pasting is working, but it would take several days to get 20,000 cells in length of all 4 diagonals made. And the rule is B3/S12456. By the way, by inverting the colors (black to white and white to black), I have noticed at the 2000 cell diagonal length, after video compressing, little short string feelers like aemoba along the 4 sharp v's at the central area. As the line length increases, due to video compression, the indentations along the edge of the large X will increase, and the aemebas should reach into the central oscillator, and that's when I think something interesting will happen, but it's with the colors inverted, so it looks like a dark star in a field of white.
hashlife: http://tomas.rokicki.com/hlife/
Basically I'm trying to find something as fast as golly, but can automate drawing a single diagonal line (I'm currently copying and pasting in Golly). I don't think I need to used hashlife for the purpose of finding a pattern in the far future because the pattern is explosive (and thus the central area would be too large if it's way in the future and would completely bog down). The pattern is a small central area with four very long diagonals emanating from it. 4 runners shoot down the diagonals and when the runners reach the end of their line, I start recording the video of the central area. Just copying and pasting is working, but it would take several days to get 20,000 cells in length of all 4 diagonals made. And the rule is B3/S12456. By the way, by inverting the colors (black to white and white to black), I have noticed at the 2000 cell diagonal length, after video compressing, little short string feelers like aemoba along the 4 sharp v's at the central area. As the line length increases, due to video compression, the indentations along the edge of the large X will increase, and the aemebas should reach into the central oscillator, and that's when I think something interesting will happen, but it's with the colors inverted, so it looks like a dark star in a field of white.