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- April 19th, 2024, 10:24 am
- Forum: Patterns
- Topic: Stable signal converters
- Replies: 453
- Views: 318680
Re: Stable signal converters
Is it possible to construct a HWSS-to-MWSS from this? Yes, here's a HWSS-to-MWSS converter with repeat time 1286. I don't think I picked a particularly good geometry, so the repeat time can probably be reduced a fair bit: x = 197, y = 309, rule = LifeHistory 4B$.4B$2.4B$3.4B$4.4B$5.4B$6.4B$7.4B$8.4...
- April 13th, 2024, 7:40 am
- Forum: Patterns
- Topic: Pattern Of The Year 2023 Nominations
- Replies: 55
- Views: 6694
Re: Pattern Of The Year 2023 Nominations
Still life synthesis reductions (by Alex Greason, Carson Cheng, Goldtiger997, May13, GUYTU6J, et al.) In 2023, the most expensive 11-bit, 15-bit, and 17-bit still-lifes has their glider syntheses reduced. In particular, the milestones of reducing all 11-bitters to 5 gliders or less, all 15-bitters ...
- February 15th, 2024, 6:50 am
- Forum: Patterns
- Topic: Thread For Requesting Help
- Replies: 110
- Views: 134123
Re: Thread For Requesting Help
Is there a synthesis component for this? x = 40, y = 10, rule = B3/S23 4b2ob2o13bo8b2ob2ob2o$4b2obobo20bobob2obobo$8b2o13bo6b2o6b2o2$2o6b2o4b obobobobobo5b2o6b2o$2o6b2o20b2o6b2o$23bo$2o6b2o20b2o6b2o$obob2obobo12b o7bobob2obobo$b2ob2ob2o22b2ob2ob2o! Yes, here's one (in two stages) found with QuFince...
- February 15th, 2024, 6:28 am
- Forum: Patterns
- Topic: Still Life Synthesis Thread
- Replies: 633
- Views: 183334
Re: Still Life Synthesis Thread
Is there a converter from xs26_33gv1qr1qr to xs29_rbgrbgv1qr ? x = 31, y = 5, rule = B3/S23 2ob2ob2o13b2ob2ob2obo$2ob2obo14b2ob2obob2o$6bo6bobobo9bo$2ob2obob2o11b 2ob2obob2o$ob2ob2ob2o11bob2ob2ob2o! Here's one I found with QuFince: x = 29, y = 28, rule = B3/S23 o$b2o$2o$9bo$10bo$8b3o2$5bo$6b2o$5b2o...
- January 26th, 2024, 11:54 am
- Forum: Patterns
- Topic: Small Spaceship Syntheses
- Replies: 731
- Views: 566363
Re: Small Spaceship Syntheses
I think a good (albeit ambitious) next target would be 77P6H1V1 . Although it has a minimum population of 77 cells, it is long and skinny and it can be divided into multiple regions which could be individually searched for. I recently started some investigation myself, and found something that look...
- January 14th, 2024, 1:20 am
- Forum: Patterns
- Topic: Small Spaceship Syntheses
- Replies: 731
- Views: 566363
Re: Small Spaceship Syntheses
I think it might be possible to synthesize the following pair of 44P5H2V0s with a pre-TL tagalong, now that we have a synthesis of 44P5H2V0: x = 35, y = 14, rule = B3/S23 4bo5bo13bo5bo$3b3o3b3o11b3o3b3o$2bo2bo3bo2bo9bo2bo3bo2bo$b3o7b3o7b3o7b 3o$2bobo5bobo9bobo5bobo$4b2o3b2o13b2o3b2o$o4bo3bo4bo5bo4b...
- January 7th, 2024, 9:48 am
- Forum: Patterns
- Topic: Still Life Synthesis Thread
- Replies: 633
- Views: 183334
Re: Still Life Synthesis Thread
This could be a good reduction to xs34_0mlhegmmz3201cnge3 . How do you find a suitable glider recipe for the marked boat predecessor at generation 10? (EDIT: spark_search.py results are inconclusive.) x = 36, y = 16, rule = LifeHistory 6.A$6.A.A$6.2A2$10.3A$5.2A$5.A.A$5.A19.A8.A$2A21.A.A7.A$.2A4.4D...
- January 2nd, 2024, 2:23 am
- Forum: Patterns
- Topic: Construction Challenges and Ideas
- Replies: 80
- Views: 13597
Re: Construction Challenges and Ideas
Constructibility of block array s is an open problem. How about pseudo still lives / patches of agars made out of other objects (e.g. ponds, tubs, beehives)? Are these constructible? Unlike block arrays, the pond and tub arrays remain stable when you remove a single pond/tub. This makes constructio...
- December 26th, 2023, 8:56 am
- Forum: Patterns
- Topic: Still Life Synthesis Thread
- Replies: 633
- Views: 183334
Re: Still Life Synthesis Thread
Here are two very close calls to a 15G synthesis of xs17_jhke0mqz1 , the only 17-bit still life that costs 16 gliders:... Could anyone run more QuFince searches / reduce the conversions / reduce the base still lifes / find more base still life targets / reduce the direct synthesis to achieve 17-in-...
- December 17th, 2023, 10:52 am
- Forum: Patterns
- Topic: Stable signal converters
- Replies: 453
- Views: 318680
Re: Stable signal converters
Lobster Heisenburp (XWSS needed) x = 27, y = 30, rule = B3/S23 2o$obob2o$b2ob2o2$13b3o$13bo$14bo2b2o$17b2o$13b2o$14b2o$13bo2bo2$15bo 2bo$15bo3bo$16b3obo$21bo$b2o2bobo13bo$bobob2o13bo$bo4bo2b2o13b2o$7bo3b o6b2o2b2o2bo$3b2o6bo6bo2bo$3b2o4bobo4b2o$10bo5bo3bo3bo$11bo2bo4b2o$12b 2o3bo5bobo$16bo8b2o$16bo...
- December 8th, 2023, 7:08 am
- Forum: Patterns
- Topic: Still Life Synthesis Thread
- Replies: 633
- Views: 183334
Re: Still Life Synthesis Thread
this xs36 costs 112g and has two separate x-marks-the-spot stages... Speaking of x-marks-the-spot converters (this came up on Discord recently also) -- just noticed that the converter is actually eighteen stages painfully combined into one, not seventeen as I said somewhere:... the X-marks-the-spot...
- November 19th, 2023, 5:34 am
- Forum: Patterns
- Topic: Reflectorless Rotating Oscillator Discussion Thread in Life
- Replies: 19
- Views: 15557
Re: Reflectorless Rotating Oscillator Discussion Thread in Life
I built my high-loopability RRO design. Each "cycle" takes 21436526 ticks with the exception of the cycles that turn the corner which take an additional 37 ticks. The RRO repeatedly performs 42 going forward cycles and then 1 turning cycle, so the period is (21436526*43 + 37)*4 = 3,687,082,620. I th...
- November 17th, 2023, 12:39 pm
- Forum: Patterns
- Topic: Reflectorless Rotating Oscillator Discussion Thread in Life
- Replies: 19
- Views: 15557
Re: Reflectorless Rotating Oscillator Discussion Thread in Life
I've been looking into making a RRO with higher loopability. The way I'm thinking of doing it is with a design much like the SSOL except that every nth cycle the RRO makes a turn rather than continuing straight. For the RRO to be able to decide between these different actions we need there to be som...
- July 14th, 2023, 9:01 am
- Forum: Patterns
- Topic: Synthesising Oscillators
- Replies: 1873
- Views: 1132219
Re: Synthesising Oscillators
mvr's new p19 in 69G: x = 1845, y = 55, rule = B3/S23 1488bo5bo339bo$1487bo6bobo337bobo$1487b3o4b2o338b2o$1468bobo252bo$ 1469b2o251bo$1464bo4bo15bo236b3o95bo$1339bo125bo19bobo330bobo9bobo$ 1337bobo123b3o19b2o332b2o9b2o$1338b2o371bo119bo$1706bo5b2o99bobo$1707b 2o2b2o9bo91b2o$1608bo97b2o13bo92bo$1607b...
- June 29th, 2023, 5:12 am
- Forum: Patterns
- Topic: POTY 2022 Voting Thread
- Replies: 46
- Views: 6701
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- June 2nd, 2023, 8:14 am
- Forum: Patterns
- Topic: Stable Storage Spaceship Challenge (Super Half Baked)
- Replies: 67
- Views: 23911
Re: Stable Storage Spaceship Challenge (Super Half Baked)
I made a working spaceship which consists of a glider hitting a 633523-cell stable constellation: working sssc.mc.gz The velocity is (200,7)c/81976184. I've also attached the binary string which the spaceship is based on. Running the following script on that file will produce the spaceship: import g...
- May 31st, 2023, 11:56 am
- Forum: Patterns
- Topic: Stable Storage Spaceship Challenge (Super Half Baked)
- Replies: 67
- Views: 23911
Re: Stable Storage Spaceship Challenge (Super Half Baked)
Edit: Regarding the gun destruction, we could pull the elbow close and do something like this:... Based on that, I found a method of cleanly destroying the gun and the elbow with GoL-destroy. Here it is attached to the rest of the components to make a pretty-much complete blueprint: x = 1067, y = 9...
- May 30th, 2023, 10:07 am
- Forum: Patterns
- Topic: Stable Storage Spaceship Challenge (Super Half Baked)
- Replies: 67
- Views: 23911
Re: Stable Storage Spaceship Challenge (Super Half Baked)
Is it easy to redesign the Corderabsorbers so that they don't interfere if they're in the correct relative positions? I couldn't find a Corderabsorber that is out of the way of all 5 LWSSs, but I found one that is out of the way of 4 of them (so we require only one LWSS-blocking block): x = 682, y ...
- May 28th, 2023, 5:51 am
- Forum: Patterns
- Topic: Stable Storage Spaceship Challenge (Super Half Baked)
- Replies: 67
- Views: 23911
Re: Stable Storage Spaceship Challenge (Super Half Baked)
Here are seeds for the LWSS rake and the p256 gun (a seed for the boat puffer was already known ): x = 320, y = 139, rule = B3/S23 93bo$92bobo$92b2o4$89bo$88bobo$89b2o3$89bo$88bobo$89b2o6$60bo35bo$59bo bo33bobo$59b2o34bobo$96bo24b2o$79bo4bo36bobo$78bobo2bobo36bo$56bo22b2o 3b2o$55bobo$56b2o15b2o$72bo...
- May 27th, 2023, 11:52 am
- Forum: Patterns
- Topic: Stable Storage Spaceship Challenge (Super Half Baked)
- Replies: 67
- Views: 23911
Re: Stable Storage Spaceship Challenge (Super Half Baked)
I found fire recipes for 3 out of the 4 colour-phase combinations for 4hd binary slow salvos (some duplicates included): x = 8482, y = 3754, rule = LifeHistory 2377.2D33.3D2.4D57.3D896.2D33.3D3.3D57.3D896.2D33.3D3.3D57.3D896.2D 33.3D3.3D57.3D896.2D33.3D3.3D57.3D896.2D33.3D3.3D58.D897.2D33.3D3.3D 57....
- May 26th, 2023, 11:33 am
- Forum: Patterns
- Topic: Stable Storage Spaceship Challenge (Super Half Baked)
- Replies: 67
- Views: 23911
Re: Stable Storage Spaceship Challenge (Super Half Baked)
Perhaps it's worth switching from 5hd binary slow salvos to a different spacing. For example, we can create 4hd binary slow salvos (which calcyman has already found recipes for) like this, which is only a little more expensive than the method of creating 5hd binary slow salvos: x = 463, y = 513, rul...
- May 21st, 2023, 8:41 am
- Forum: Patterns
- Topic: Stable Storage Spaceship Challenge (Super Half Baked)
- Replies: 67
- Views: 23911
Re: Stable Storage Spaceship Challenge (Super Half Baked)
EDIT 5/20/2023: Addendum to problems list: -- either find three more glider emission recipes (one for each phase and glider color) or figure out how to adapt slmake to work with P1 monochromatic slow salvos. It seems that finding glider emission recipes is pretty hard. I found one which produces a ...
- May 20th, 2023, 10:11 am
- Forum: Patterns
- Topic: Stable Storage Spaceship Challenge (Super Half Baked)
- Replies: 67
- Views: 23911
Re: Stable Storage Spaceship Challenge (Super Half Baked)
If I'm correctly understanding what is required, here are Corderaborbers for the LWSS rake and the boat puffer: x = 397, y = 220, rule = LifeHistory 77.2C$77.C.C$78.C5$78.2C$52.2C23.C.C$52.C.C23.C$53.C8$265.C$264.C.C$ 263.C2.C$264.2C2$269.2C$38.C230.C.C$37.C.C230.C$38.2C6$240.C$239.C.C$ 238.C2.C$37....
- May 16th, 2023, 9:28 am
- Forum: Patterns
- Topic: Spacefiller Recipe Working Thread
- Replies: 82
- Views: 9596
Re: Spacefiller Recipe Working Thread
Here's a proof-of-concept seed for the spacefiller synthesis (903 gliders), which is activated by a westward-bound MWSS:... Very cool! I’m surprised people haven’t tried making a synthesis for the speed tunnel. I figured people would try making it by now The speed tunnel has been synthesised . The ...
- March 24th, 2023, 9:20 pm
- Forum: Patterns
- Topic: Make a Spaceship With an Adjustable Slope
- Replies: 69
- Views: 8072
Re: Make a Spaceship With an Adjustable Slope
Congrats on the Speed Orthogonal Loopship!... I'll need to dig deeper to make sure I get all the adjustable elements of your design to see if I can be any help with fixing the remaining issues with some speeds in your script. Thank you! It's been a while since I've though about this topic, so my re...