Tutorials/Catagolue stdin symmetry
The program used for random soup searching and uploading census results to Catagolue, apgluxe, can also be used to census other patterns besides the standard 16x16 soups (and the various symmetric versions).
This can be done using a special-case "symmetry" -- which, as with some other custom input type settings (especially "C1") doesn't mean that anything about the input is actually symmetrical. It's just that the ability to choose different types of symmetry was the original reason why this input-type symmetry was added to apgsearch, so it got called --symmetry.
Example use of stdin "symmetry"
Here's a walkthrough of what I did to make the "stdin" setting work correctly for the current octohash database. The octohash database is a text file containing RLE and hash "fingerprints" for 455,380 constellations of two well-separated small objects, with gliders hitting those constellations in all possible ways. The original format of the database looks like this:
2o$2o5$6b2o$7bo$7bobo$8b2o2$9bo$8b2o$8bobo! 4VR.}_d9V 2Ix+b%WBR 3yxH8RZE. #0;<x`Uw5 ... 2o$2o5$6b2o$7bo$7bobo$8b2o2$10bo$9b2o$9bobo! %;PIz*v-2 4^3)fGg4d $ELjpBC|L +na$+!R;z ... 2o$2o5$6b2o$7bo$7bobo$8b2o$11b3o$11bo$12bo! +v_ZNH#oe -}^X[oicJ -R-?MafAS /_5rv;~OS ... 2o$2o5$6b2o$6bobo$8bo$8b2o2$9bo$8b2o$8bobo! *)96g6@`< )$19%$P-v 0;fHjqa6H 1kt!Xw0*B ... 2o$2o5$6b2o$6bobo$8bo$8b2o2$10b3o$10bo$11bo! )nqxL570R -[6bmsrmA /^gHjOSFo 1n3pM&bmw ... ...
For this project, we're not going to use the hash values that show up after the exclamation point on every line. We just need the RLE -- but we need it to be actual standard-format RLE, not headerless RLE. However, apgluxe doesn't care whether the x and y values are right or not, so we can just add the same standard header to each line.
We could do this by writing a Python or Lua script to read the original octohash database, split each string at the space, and write out a new text file with x = 0, y = 0, rule = B3/S23 added before every line. But it's actually just as easy to do this kind of thing with a good text editor -- Notepad++ or TextPad, or any similar editor that support regular-expression search and replaces.
Tangential note about the usefulness of regexp search-and-replace
First replace " .*" without the quotes -- space period asterisk -- with the empty string. That gets rid of the long strings of hashes. If you're trying this with the full database, this might take a little while since there are almost half a million lines of text in the database.
Then replace "^" without the quotes -- just a single carat character -- with "x = 0, y = 0, rule = B3/S23\n". "^" is a regexp shortcut for "the beginning of the line of text", just as "$" is a reference meaning "the end of the line of text". "\n" is just the standard syntax for a newline character.
You should end up with a new text file, which you can save with a new name. Let's call it octohashes.txt. Save it in the same folder with apgluxe.exe, to make things simpler (otherwise you have to specify the full path to it in your command-line invocation, below.) octohashes.txt should look like this now:
x = 0, y = 0, rule = B3/S23 2o$2o5$6b2o$7bo$7bobo$8b2o2$9bo$8b2o$8bobo! x = 0, y = 0, rule = B3/S23 2o$2o5$6b2o$7bo$7bobo$8b2o2$10bo$9b2o$9bobo! x = 0, y = 0, rule = B3/S23 2o$2o5$6b2o$7bo$7bobo$8b2o$11b3o$11bo$12bo! x = 0, y = 0, rule = B3/S23 2o$2o5$6b2o$6bobo$8bo$8b2o2$9bo$8b2o$8bobo! x = 0, y = 0, rule = B3/S23 2o$2o5$6b2o$6bobo$8bo$8b2o2$10b3o$10bo$11bo! ...
Different options for piping patterns into apgluxe
The above is a format -- chunks of RLE one right after another -- that we can feed directly into apgluxe, as long as we tell it that the symmetry is some arbitrary name containing the string "stdin". You pick the rest of the name, but make it unique and descriptive, and make sure it includes this string -- just "_stdin" at the end of the name for example. ("Stdin" is short for "standard input", and that's good terminology to know when you're working with command-line utilities like apgluxe.)
Really apgluxe can accept any stream of data that consists of chunks of RLE like this, one right after another. If you're familiar with the concept of piping the output of one shell command into the input of another, then you can write a program that generates RLE directly and prints it to the console -- a stream called "stdout", "standard output". A pipe character | then tells the shell interpreter to redirect the output of that program to be the input of another program, apgluxe.exe in this case.
Several people have written this kind of program to produce various types of enumerated patterns: partial spaceships, all possible NxN patterns for small N, etc. It's often useful to pipe these enumerated patterns through apgluxe, because that way you find out very quickly if any interesting still lifes, oscillators, spaceships, or growing patterns are produced.
In the case of the octohash database that we modified above, we can just use a shell command called "cat", short for "concatenate" but what it does is simply print whatever files you mention to the console (standard output), one after another. We'll only mention one file, octohashes.txt, so it will just print the contents of the file, which is exactly what we want to pipe into apgluxe.
How to use the pipe command with apgluxe
If you don't already have apgluxe installed, follow the standard instructions from the apgmera README.
Once you've done that, recompile apgluxe with your chosen "stdin" symmetry name:
./apgluxe --symmetry octohash2obj12x12_stdin
Then you'll be all ready to run the actual command to census your list of RLEs:
./apgluxe -k MyPayoshaKey -t 1 -n 455380 < octohashes.txt
Translation:
< octohashes.txt
– Use octohashes.txt as input to…
./apgluxe
– …apgluxe.exe (in Unix-like operating systems, you have to put the ./ in front of the name, because if you don't, it thinks that it's a shell command that it can't find, instead of an executable file name.)
-k MyPayoshaKey
– you won't need this unless you change the next line, to upload your census results to Catagolue.
-t 1
– specifies 'testing' mode. Remove this option from the command to upload your stdin census to Catagolue.
-n 455380
– specifies the number of patterns to process before uploading, or before completing the task that you're telling apgluxe to do here.
Results from apgluxe
For my particular octohash database census, the result that came back from apgluxe after a few minutes (in the form of a log file named something long and unpronounceable) is shown below. You can check by running the sample soups in Golly, that those collisions do indeed produce explosions whose ash contains the referenced objects. For example,
xp3_co9nas0san9oczgoldlo0oldlogz1047210127401 -2o$obo$2bo$2b2o3$6b2o$7bo$7bobo$8b2o2$8bo$7b2o$7bobo!
means that a glider hitting two 180-degree rotationally symmetric eaters will produce a pulsar (at T=1878, along with many other things).
Click on "Expand" to the right to view full content of the log file.
testing @VERSION v5.2-ll2.4.3 @MD5 678291a2bf974c9aeaf313e7171a9acb @ROOT k_NCzsAkKecFzp @RULE b3s23 @SYMMETRY octohash2obj12x12_stdin @NUM_SOUPS 455380 @NUM_OBJECTS 6874903 @CENSUS TABLE xs4_33 2138665 xp2_7 1930705 xs6_696 1125108 xq4_153 630131 xs7_2596 313936 xs5_253 307969 xs6_356 223659 xs8_6996 75167 xs4_252 63316 xs7_25ac 20223 xp2_7e 14256 xs12_g8o653z11 12841 xp2_318c 4204 xs6_25a4 3772 xs14_g88m952z121 3075 xs7_178c 1629 xs8_69ic 1578 xs8_25ak8 817 xq4_6frc 733 xp3_co9nas0san9oczgoldlo0oldlogz1047210127401 553 xs6_39c 450 xs14_69bqic 257 xs9_31ego 251 xs8_35ac 217 xq4_27dee6 167 xs6_bd 161 xs8_3pm 130 xs16_g88m996z1221 122 xs14_g88b96z123 113 xs10_g8o652z01 96 xs18_rhe0ehr 64 xs9_4aar 59 xs9_178ko 49 xs9_25ako 38 xs8_178k8 37 xp15_4r4z4r4 35 xs10_35ako 34 xq4_27deee6 26 xs11_g8o652z11 23 xs16_j1u0696z11 21 xs11_2530f9 17 xs15_354cgc453 14 xs14_j1u066z11 13 xs14_6970796 13 xs12_raar 13 xs11_g0s453z11 13 xs8_312ko 8 xs14_39e0e93 8 xs10_g0s252z11 8 xs10_178kk8 7 xs12_330fho 6 xs11_178kic 6 xs9_178kc 5 xs10_358gkc 5 xs7_3lo 4 xs17_2ege1ege2 4 xs12_o4q552z01 4 xs10_3542ac 4 xs10_32qr 4 xs16_69egmiczx1 3 xs14_69bo8a6 3 xs12_330f96 3 xs10_3215ac 3 xs9_312453 2 xs16_69bob96 2 xs15_j1u06a4z11 2 xs15_259e0eic 2 xs15_259e0e96 2 xs14_j1u413z11 2 xs14_6is079c 2 xs14_69e0eic 2 xs14_6960uic 2 xs13_g88m96z121 2 xs12_69iczx113 2 xs11_ggm952z1 2 xs10_g8ka52z01 2 xs10_1784ko 2 xs8_31248c 1 xs20_3lkkl3z32w23 1 xs19_0c88b96z6953 1 xs15_g88m596z121 1 xs15_4a9raic 1 xs15_3lkm96z01 1 xs15_3lk453z121 1 xs14_i5q453z11 1 xs14_g8o0e96z121 1 xs14_39e0eic 1 xs14_31egm96 1 xs13_3hu06a4 1 xs12_3hu066 1 xs12_0ggs252z32 1 xs12_0g8o652z121 1 xs12_08o653z32 1 xs11_ggka53z1 1 xs11_31461ac 1 xs10_69ar 1 xs10_0j96z32 1 @SAMPLE_SOUPIDS xs4_33 -2o$2o5$6b2o$7bo$7bobo$8b2o2$9bo$8b2o$8bobo! 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