History of Catagolue
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The following is an overview of the history of Adam P. Goucher's Catagolue.
2015
- February 20: Catagolue becomes operative.
- April 24: the B3/S23/C1 census reaches a total of one trillion objects.
- September 2: the B3/S23/C1 census reaches a total of ten trillion objects.
- September 16: the pony express, the first natural infinite-growth pattern other than the block-laying switch engine and glider-producing switch engine is found in a soup.[1] After being initially rejected by Catagolue, the containing haul is recomputed and manually committed on September 28.[2]
- September 24: Catagolue supports the generation of backups, including daily backups for the C1 symmetry of Conway's Game of Life.
- October 5: the first instance of Phoenix 1, the last remaining unseen 12-bit object, is found.[3]
- October 21: the B3/S23/C1 census reaches a total of twenty trillion objects.
2016
- January 25: Aidan F. Pierce releases a hacked version of apgsearch v0.54 which can search isotropic non-totalistic Life-like cellular automata rules and upload the results to Catagolue.[4]
- February 20: the B3/S23/C1 census reaches a total of 50 trillion objects exactly one year after Catagolue was launched.
- June 20: the B3/S23/C1 census reaches a total of 100 trillion objects.
- July 5: a new period-16 oscillator, Rich's p16, is discovered in the ash of a D2_+1 soup.
- July 6: the B3/S23/C1 census reaches a total of 5 trillion soups.
- August 22: the B3/S23/C1 census reaches a total of 100,000 distinct objects.
- September 4: the B3/S23/C1 census reaches a total of 150 trillion objects.
- September 20: D2_+2 becomes the first B3/S23 symmetry other than C1 to reach 1 trillion objects.
2017
- January 13: Catagolue starts collecting slow salvo data using the SS pseudo-symmetry.
- March 15: B38/S23/C1 (Pedestrian Life) becomes the first rule/symmetry other than B3/S23/C1 to reach 10 trillion objects.
- May 16: the B3/S23/C1 census reaches a total of 200 trillion objects.
- August 19: Catagolue gains the ability to census Generations and B0 rules, fed by apgsearch 4.0.[5]
- August 21: Catagolue gains the ability to census Larger than Life rules, fed by apgsearch 4.1.[6]
- September 10: Catagolue gains official support for isotropic non-totalistic rules, fed by apgsearch 4.2.[7] Previously, these rules required a hacked version of the original apgsearch Golly script.
2018
- June 3: Catagolue gains the ability to census Generations variants of Larger than Life and isotropic non-totalistic rules, fed by apgsearch 4.3.[8]
- October 28: Catagolue starts collecting data on long-lived patterns, fed by apgsearch 4.54.[9]
- October 29: Catagolue gains the ability to census BSFKL rules, fed by apgsearch 4.56.[10]
- November 7: Catagolue gains the ability to census higher-range totalistic Life-like cellular automata, fed by apgsearch 4.63.[11]
- November 29: the B3/S23/C1 census reaches a total of 250 trillion objects.
- December 1: Catagolue gains the ability to census isotropic hexagonal neighborhood rules, fed by apgsearch 4.66; only C1, 1x256, 2x128, 4x64 and 8x32 are supported, not higher symmetries, as these are currently incompatible with the hexagonal neighbourhood.[12]
- December 11: the first instance of the heptapole, the last remaining unseen 13-bit object, is found.[13]
- December 11: Catagolue starts collecting data on diehards, fed by apgsearch 4.69.
- December 12: Catagolue supports gzip compression of certain tabulations.
2019
- January 3: the B3/S23/C1 census reaches a total of 300 trillion objects.
- January 9: Catagolue gains the ability to census Golly rule tables and rule trees, fed by apgsearch 4.8.
- January 15: Catagolue gains native support for Deficient and Extended Generations rules, fed by apgsearch 4.83.
References
- ↑ Apple Bottom (2015-09-27). "Re: apgsearch v2.2". ConwayLife.com forums. Retrieved on 2016-06-30.
- ↑ Adam P. Goucher (2015-09-28). "Re: apgsearch v2.2". ConwayLife.com forums. Retrieved on 2016-06-30.
- ↑ Adam P. Goucher (2015-10-05). "Census (2015-10-05 backup)". Catagolue. Retrieved on 2016-06-29.
- ↑ Aidan F. Pierce (January 25, 2016). Re: Hacking apgsearch (discussion thread) at the ConwayLife.com forums
- ↑ Adam P. Goucher (August 18, 2017). 345/3/8 (discussion thread) at the ConwayLife.com forums
- ↑ Adam P. Goucher (August 21, 2017). Re: apgsearch v4.0 (discussion thread) at the ConwayLife.com forums
- ↑ Adam P. Goucher (September 10, 2017). Re: apgsearch v4.2 (discussion thread) at the ConwayLife.com forums
- ↑ Adam P. Goucher (June 3, 2018). Re: apgsearch v4.0 (discussion thread) at the ConwayLife.com forums
- ↑ Adam P. Goucher (2018-10-28). Re: apgsearch v4.0 (discussion thread) at the ConwayLife.com forums
- ↑ Apple Bottom (2018-11-03). Re: apgsearch v4.0 (discussion thread) at the ConwayLife.com forums
- ↑ Adam P. Goucher (2018-11-07). Re: apgsearch v4.0 (discussion thread) at the ConwayLife.com forums
- ↑ Adam P. Goucher (December 1, 2018). Re: Non-totalistic hex rules (discussion thread) at the ConwayLife.com forums
- ↑ Billabob (December 11, 2018). Re: Soup search results (discussion thread) at the ConwayLife.com forums