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- Yesterday, 7:19 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Maximum lifespan on torus
- Replies: 16
- Views: 536
Re: Maximum lifespan on torus
But what about medium sized world - 40x40? Can engineered patterns live longer here, or randomized methods will work better? I tried both variants and here are the results: [Engineered] Lifespan: 3494 ... [Random Soup] Lifespan: 4332 ... Seems like there's probably some glider-eating trickery from ...
- Yesterday, 6:30 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Suggested patterns for Golly
- Replies: 185
- Views: 22957
Re: Suggested patterns for Golly
edit: Are you accepting everything muzik suggested? Even ironic-spaceship.rle (which honestly looked like a joke to me) got accepted! Many of the accepted patterns don't look notable (at least compared to very notable stuff like tubular-geminoid.rle). I suggest that you look carefully through the P...
- May 19th, 2024, 10:04 am
- Forum: LifeWiki Discussion
- Topic: Reviewing Special:RecentChanges
- Replies: 80
- Views: 2991
Re: Reviewing Special:RecentChanges
I believe the two terms have different meanings. In my understanding, in Life/CA-related discussions the word 'tick' usually refers to a step between two generations of a pattern (for example, going from a phase of an oscillator to the next phase), while the word 'generation' usually refers to just...
- May 18th, 2024, 9:21 pm
- Forum: Bugs & Errors
- Topic: PHP file out of the blue
- Replies: 2
- Views: 79
Re: PHP file out of the blue
the "click here" button on https://conwaylife.com/wiki/Rule:Neutronium doesn't take you anywhere. it just downloads an index.php file This has come up before, as a problem specific to Firefox, which is uniquely over-enthusiastic about downloading things instead of displaying them. There's a fairly ...
- May 16th, 2024, 9:05 am
- Forum: LifeWiki Discussion
- Topic: Suggested LifeWiki edits
- Replies: 938
- Views: 182248
Re: Suggested LifeWiki edits
I support the move, as the 563-cell form is currently the most notable form. ... 51P384 was moved to 49P384 (by C28, without discussion) but then moved back (by Confocal, without discussion). I don't think that case should be used as precedent. It does seem like we have a good number of precedents ...
- May 15th, 2024, 8:24 am
- Forum: Bugs & Errors
- Topic: lifeviewer bug
- Replies: 393
- Views: 52164
Re: lifeviewer bug
When I'm editing any wiki page the viewers are alway broken. Is there anyway to fix it? Example from OCA:B2i3/S23 , bug at top-right and bottom-left... More specifics, please. If you click on the above wiki link and click the "Edit" tab, you won't see any failed attempts to render the page. Are you...
- May 14th, 2024, 3:52 am
- Forum: Scripts
- Topic: Thread for your script-related questions
- Replies: 375
- Views: 108532
Re: Thread for your script-related questions
I have a ruletable (for StateInvestigator) in a .txt file. How do I import it into Golly? Copy the text to your clipboard. In Golly choose File > Open Clipboard (Ctrl+Shift+O). Or try out the latest Golly beta, which includes native support for StateInvestigator, no rule tables needed (under the ru...
- May 12th, 2024, 12:11 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Unproven conjectures
- Replies: 348
- Views: 135327
Re: Unproven conjectures
Does the "single row of still life" mean a continuous line of ON cells, as in the two examples given? If any pattern of ON and OFF cells is allowed in the row, then I don't think this counts as "unproven", due to the outline given in the unidiemsional spaceship thread showing that any constructible ...
- May 12th, 2024, 10:57 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Golly 4.3b2
- Replies: 12
- Views: 393
Re: Golly 4.3b2
Several problems I noticed so far... Here's a checkin that addresses most of these issues. A few of these changes are more complicated than I can handle right now, like these two from post180657: (new) Generations/g3s23-breeder.rle and (old) Generations/b3-s23-g3-spaceship-breeder.rle have inconsis...
- May 11th, 2024, 3:02 pm
- Forum: LifeWiki Discussion
- Topic: Rule definition terminology
- Replies: 102
- Views: 5540
Re: Rule definition terminology
Proposal to add a LifeWiki linkable definition of "transition", in the "transition rule" sense FYI to anyone interested -- I'm currently still planning to add something along the lines of the "green text" definition as a glossary article, a week or so from now -- on the grounds that the many curren...
- May 11th, 2024, 12:12 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Golly 4.3b1
- Replies: 61
- Views: 2614
Re: Golly 4.3b1
For the record, here are the new Lua conversion scripts that I came up with for the Super algo. The old ones fail to recognize "Investigator" as a valid suffix, so they do Very Wrong Things when faced with any [Rule]Investigator pattern, telling the user that "Investigator" is not supported by Super...
- May 11th, 2024, 12:02 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Golly 4.3b1
- Replies: 61
- Views: 2614
Re: Golly 4.3b1
Suggestions or assistance, please Anyone have any suggestions? Or would anyone be interested in making a smaller LifeInvestigator "Best Of..." collection, starting from this ZIP file, with comments in Andrew's new standard format -- and then we can put pointers in the comments of those files to say...
- May 10th, 2024, 10:48 am
- Forum: Scripts
- Topic: Thread for your script-related questions
- Replies: 375
- Views: 108532
Re: Thread for your script-related questions
How can I configure a specific spaceship partial for WLS? It gives me an error when I try to configure it and search. That's ... an extraordinarily vague problem description. There are lots of subtle things that can go wrong at the configuration stage. It's easier for people to help if you provide ...
- May 8th, 2024, 9:42 am
- Forum: Scripts
- Topic: Script request thread
- Replies: 559
- Views: 297531
Re: Script request thread
For 4-digit periods that are a 3-smooth number times a number under 1000, automatically add semi/tremi/quadri-snarks to the 3-digit periods to create the 4-digit period if it would result in a reduction... "Automatically" is going to be kind of a tall order, isn't it? Or rather, we could automatica...
- May 7th, 2024, 10:57 am
- Forum: Patterns
- Topic: Thread For Your Useless Discoveries
- Replies: 4578
- Views: 1765333
Re: Thread For Your Useless Discoveries
This may be known, but I want to make a caterpillar... I kind of doubt that that specific G->2G + LWSS one-time seed constellation is known. It looks awfully complicated, though; there are much simpler constellations that can produce similar outputs, and can be chained in similar ways. It's not cle...
- May 6th, 2024, 3:33 pm
- Forum: Patterns
- Topic: Stable signal converters
- Replies: 460
- Views: 319209
Re: Stable signal converters
well, the clearance in not as good, but one has less timings to manage with this one reaction... So I assume one might make a smaller contraption for a signal converter. with a repeat time of 81 I believe. EDIT Got the test wrong somehow -- RT 81 it is... It's a little tricky to search through all ...
- May 6th, 2024, 1:49 pm
- Forum: Patterns
- Topic: Stable signal converters
- Replies: 460
- Views: 319209
Re: Stable signal converters
… but I suspect that the reaction in the BNE14T30 collides with the reaction behind it. … Yes ! You're alright. This is exactly what appends. Th BN14T30 have a back reaction which interferes with the following signal. Does anybody happen to know what prepended X-to-B would allow a repeat time of 12...
- May 6th, 2024, 7:40 am
- Forum: Website Discussion
- Topic: Simple math questions about Conway's Game of Life
- Replies: 7
- Views: 300
Re: Simple math questions about Conway's Game of Life
Yup. For example, it would be an ambitious but not impossible project to use the tools described in the Universal Computation chapter of the Life textbook (Chapter 9) to write a program that calculates the value of e and prints it out in the Life universe. There's plenty of other math -- combinatori...
- May 5th, 2024, 10:26 pm
- Forum: Patterns
- Topic: Stable signal converters
- Replies: 460
- Views: 319209
Re: Stable signal converters
OK, so my last converter can be used like this (shown at p120) ... ... Or smaller if initiated... The BNE14T30 edge shooter is advertised on the LifeWiki as having a recovery time of 120 ticks, but I'm finding the minimum repeat time is actually 126: x = 201, y = 126, rule = LifeHistory 200.A$198.2...
- May 5th, 2024, 9:05 pm
- Forum: Website Discussion
- Topic: Simple math questions about Conway's Game of Life
- Replies: 7
- Views: 300
Re: Simple math questions about Conway's Game of Life
How about the "Limits of functions" item? It would take about three minutes to go through the math to check and verify, for example, one of Dean Hickerson's " unusual growth rate " patterns -- like the "Life computes pi" one, for example. Or condense a presentation like that into a minute or so, and...
- May 5th, 2024, 6:36 pm
- Forum: Patterns
- Topic: Synthesis components
- Replies: 211
- Views: 57482
Re: Synthesis components
Is there a synthesis that it can improve ? Hmm, probably. I haven't found anything yet that has an existing synthesis, so my example is a little bit contrived. Things like this might be more expensive to build without the new two-sided recipe: x = 48, y = 22, rule = B3/S23 2bob2ob2o28bob2ob2o$2b2ob...
- May 4th, 2024, 11:58 am
- Forum: Patterns
- Topic: Still-life 'factories'
- Replies: 223
- Views: 135762
Re: Still-life 'factories'
Starting with BFx59H and then catalyse the H output with Eater1, I found a 3-states factory : nothing (original conduit+Eater1), Beehive, Block... Hmm. There's a path that's blocked by either of the two non-empty states, for a clean reset to "zero" of the three-way toggle: x = 133, y = 19, rule = L...
- May 3rd, 2024, 12:38 pm
- Forum: Website Discussion
- Topic: Pattern viewer for forum threads
- Replies: 3430
- Views: 847062
Re: Pattern viewer for forum threads
I'm used to Golly's version of Advance Selection at this point, so I tend to find LifeViewer's floating-selection behavior kind of puzzling -- I don't expect to need an extra [Enter] after advancing. Also, it's sometimes kind of hard to see what the advanced pattern looks like with some themes and s...
- May 3rd, 2024, 7:09 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Unproven conjectures
- Replies: 348
- Views: 135327
Re: Unproven conjectures
Yes, the Eater1 recovers in 3 ticks. But does the last reaction's cell count ? In this case, the RT is 4 ticks. Yup, Scorbie pointed this out several years ago. Probably the intention of the Did-You-Know from which this item was copied was something like " All known glider eaters take at least four...
- May 2nd, 2024, 7:13 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: NewLifeCA Back Issues
- Replies: 50
- Views: 13291
Re: NewLifeCA Back Issues
NewLifeCA #48, 2 May 2024: new p7 spaceships, oblique wickstretchers, and teaser for new c/4 tech (sent via email 6:21am CDT, 2 May 2024) From this morning, here's another NewLifeCA contribution from Matthias Merzenich. New p7 Spaceships Period-7 spaceships are quite rare, so it's a bit of a surpri...