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by gameoflifeboy
December 28th, 2018, 5:38 pm
Forum: Patterns
Topic: Seeds of Destruction Game
Replies: 20
Views: 19574

Re: Seeds of Destruction Game

It actually is called "Omega" in Mark Niemiec's database; see, for example, "block on up large omega w/ curly tail" from this list.
by gameoflifeboy
December 13th, 2018, 3:28 am
Forum: Patterns
Topic: Soup search results
Replies: 2588
Views: 1891984

Re: Soup search results

Three hours ago, Rob Liston found a diehard lasting 758 generations, surpassing Andrzej Okrasinski's 743-gen diehard which had been the record for over 10 years: x = 16, y = 16, rule = B3/S23 o2bob3o2bobobo$o6b2o2bo$2o3b2ob5o2bo$2o3bo3bobob3o$o2b2obo5b2obo$3b3o 2bo2b2obo$2obob3obo2bo$2ob5o5b2o$3obo3...
by gameoflifeboy
November 18th, 2018, 3:29 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: apgsearch v4.0
Replies: 525
Views: 271826

Re: apgsearch v4.0

When terminating an instance of apgluxe right before restarting my Linux computer to fix the Internet connection, I glanced at the output and noticed the reporting of 17 switch engines in only 79424 soups at the end of my last haul. I then looked through the previous hauls and found similarly dispro...
by gameoflifeboy
May 27th, 2018, 9:46 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Thread for basic questions
Replies: 4725
Views: 1219492

Re: Thread for basic questions

I was the first to search b357s12 in December so I doubt that Actually, when I was talking about "searching a rule" in my previous post, I meant "going to the Catagolue rule page, probably using a script, and see if anyone has investigated the rule yet (in the context of building a list of investig...
by gameoflifeboy
May 27th, 2018, 4:11 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Thread for basic questions
Replies: 4725
Views: 1219492

Re: Thread for basic questions

Are you trying to search every single possible outer-totalistic rule? (Assuming your original post said "isotropic non-totalistic rule") I was thinking Apple Bottom may have only searched the rulestrings of the isotropic non-totalistic rules that weren't obviously exploding (e.g. no B1c). But my in...
by gameoflifeboy
May 26th, 2018, 5:59 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Thread for basic questions
Replies: 4725
Views: 1219492

Re: Thread for basic questions

Is there a proof that this list contains every searched rule, even those whose last search happened before the script started tracking new rulestrings on Catagolue? Let me clarify. When Apple Bottom started this list, he knew that it was incomplete and invited people to inform him of rules missing ...
by gameoflifeboy
May 23rd, 2018, 2:29 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Thread for basic questions
Replies: 4725
Views: 1219492

Re: Thread for basic questions

Saka wrote:
gameoflifeboy wrote: Is there an official list of search rulestrings now, and if so, where can I find it?
Yes
List of rules investigated on Catagolue
Is there a proof that this list contains every searched rule, even those whose last search happened before the script started tracking new rulestrings on Catagolue?
by gameoflifeboy
May 23rd, 2018, 1:29 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Thread for basic questions
Replies: 4725
Views: 1219492

Re: Thread for basic questions

I'm a bit confused about something. In April 2016, Apple Bottom was trying to create a list of all rules searched on Catagolue, but he said that his list was likely incomplete. Calcyman responded that Catagolue did not keep track of such a list. However, by February 2018, Apple Bottom announced conf...
by gameoflifeboy
April 12th, 2018, 3:22 pm
Forum: The Sandbox
Topic: Random posts
Replies: 5930
Views: 1583113

Re: Random posts

Where can I contact EricABQ? Why? Where can I contact wwei23? Where can I contact apgoucher to write about irritation? I want to contact EricABQ to report some news about B3/S2, a 20 cell still life showed up in D2_+1. Thanks for letting me know! Only one step closer to finding one in C1! I wonder ...
by gameoflifeboy
February 24th, 2018, 10:55 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Create your own terminology
Replies: 318
Views: 115689

Re: Create your own terminology

calcyman's partner (as referenced in his garden post thingy) can be referred to as 'calcywoman' :P Girlfriend or wife? :? (http://www.conwaylife.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=2586&start=100#p52912 btw) When I saw that post, it took me too long to realize that Calcyman was probably referring to a ...
by gameoflifeboy
January 23rd, 2018, 1:41 am
Forum: Patterns
Topic: Pattern of the Year 2017
Replies: 24
Views: 16181

Re: Pattern of the Year 2017

Before it's too late, I'd like to nominate my cumulative sum generator: a device that takes in a stream of gliders and returns a stream of gliders whose positions correspond to the partial sums of the positions of the original gliders.
by gameoflifeboy
January 19th, 2018, 1:17 pm
Forum: The Sandbox
Topic: Random posts
Replies: 5930
Views: 1583113

Re: Random posts

Arbitrary patterns are just period 0 oscillators. This doesn't make sense. Yes it does, if you characterize a period-N oscillator as having the property that it remains the same at generations which are multiples of N and no others. Actually, adding "and no others" to the end of the characterizatio...
by gameoflifeboy
January 17th, 2018, 11:59 pm
Forum: Patterns
Topic: Largest and oldest methuselah ever found!
Replies: 23
Views: 18595

Re: Largest and oldest methuselah ever found!

In May 2009, I found a methuselah using a single ark that takes almost as long to stabilize as ark2: x = 55, y = 44, rule = B3/S23 48b7o28$12bo$12bo$13b2o$15bo$15bo$15bo$15bo6$2o$2bo$2bo$3b4o! I already posted it in my online collection of useless patterns . I guess it can be made smaller: x = 55, y...
by gameoflifeboy
January 11th, 2018, 2:51 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Golly 3.1
Replies: 29
Views: 20388

Re: Golly 3.1

I just downloaded Golly 3.1 and can confirm that the bug still exists. For example, if you run this pattern to 10^10 generations in HashLife: x = 178, y = 218, rule = B3/S23 125b3o$125bobo$125b3o6bo$125b3o5b3o$125b3o$125b3o$125bobo5b3o$125b3o$ 133bobo$133bobo2$133b3o$111b2o6b2o$110bo2bo4bo2bo$110bo2...
by gameoflifeboy
January 8th, 2018, 11:41 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Golly 3.1
Replies: 29
Views: 20388

Re: Golly 3.1

I noticed a bug that occurs when on cells have x-coordinates out of the range [-2^32, 2^32 - 1] or y-coordinates out of the range [-2^32 + 1, 2^32]. When one tries to add new cells, either by drawing or copy-pasting, to a canvas where the above conditions are fulfilled by at least one currently on c...
by gameoflifeboy
December 23rd, 2017, 6:59 pm
Forum: The Sandbox
Topic: Best Pattern(s) You've Ever Made
Replies: 27
Views: 14678

Re: Best Pattern(s) You've Ever Made

Three words: Cumulative Sum Generator . This is a device that takes in a stream of gliders emitted at generations 960*a, 960*b, 960*c ... and outputs a stream of gliders emitted 960*a, 960*b, 960*c ... generations apart. The plan was to be able to generate any polynomial sequence P(n) of degree d , ...
by gameoflifeboy
December 23rd, 2017, 5:58 pm
Forum: The Sandbox
Topic: Thread for Non-CA Academic Questions
Replies: 347
Views: 157663

Re: Thread for Non-CA Academic Questions

Do there exist any polyhedra which are isohedral, isogonal and isotoxal, but the individual faces aren't regular? I don't think so, but for Euclidean tilings the following construction counts: http://mathstat.slu.edu/escher/upload/e/ec/Diamond-net.png After further consideration, I believe that the...
by gameoflifeboy
December 2nd, 2017, 1:47 pm
Forum: The Sandbox
Topic: Thread for Non-CA Academic Questions
Replies: 347
Views: 157663

Re: Thread for Non-CA Academic Questions

As the quartic equation Ax^4 + Bx^3 + Cx^2 + Dx + E = 0 can be reduced to x^4 + (B/A)x^3 + (C/A)x^2 + (D/A)x + (E/A) = 0 without loss of information (unless A is 0), you can just do a trivial substitution on the formulas Macbi gave to find its solutions: a -> B/A b -> C/A c -> D/A d -> E/A Expanding...
by gameoflifeboy
August 31st, 2017, 5:05 pm
Forum: The Sandbox
Topic: Thread for Non-CA Academic Questions
Replies: 347
Views: 157663

Re: Thread for Non-CA Academic Questions

Here is an article about someone's attempts to extend the second argument of tetration to the real numbers. I haven't really tried to understand it but I will probably do so when I am less busy. A much simpler solution is to just use linear approximation , but this lacks the beauty of the original ...
by gameoflifeboy
August 20th, 2017, 2:02 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: apgsearch v4.0
Replies: 525
Views: 271826

Re: apgsearch v4.0

LifeWiki used to (until yesterday) say the codename was "apgmera v4.0," but I don't know if this is official yet. I'm hoping not; I'd like a new 4-letter suffix--preferably something beginning with L, because the previous suffixes were '-nano' and '-mera'.
by gameoflifeboy
August 20th, 2017, 12:50 pm
Forum: Other Cellular Automata
Topic: Soup search results in rules other than Conway's Life
Replies: 456
Views: 253605

Re: Soup search results in rules other than Conway's Life

Two new oscillators were recently discovered in 23/3/3, now known an g3b3s23. A p6 found by me and a p12 found by Kaarel Toomet: x = 15, y = 9, rule = 23/3/3 2.A8.B$.A.A6.A.A$2A.B6.A.2A$.A8.AB.BA$2A9.2A.A$.A10.A.A$2A.B9.B$.A.A$ 2.A! So far, all oscillator periods in this rule are factors of 12. The ...
by gameoflifeboy
August 18th, 2017, 11:40 pm
Forum: Patterns
Topic: Meta-meta-blinker
Replies: 26
Views: 30849

Re: Meta-meta-blinker

I once had an idea for a Life program where the cells would become metapixels once you zoomed in far enough, and then the cells of those metapixels would become metapixels, and so on. This would continue, with procedural generation of metapixels corresponding to single cells one level up, going thro...
by gameoflifeboy
August 14th, 2017, 12:38 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Golly 3.0b2
Replies: 61
Views: 27844

Re: Golly 3.0b2

I noticed that the dimensions of a torus in LtL rules can't be set to a height or width less than half the neighborhood radius. However, this still happens when one of the dimensions is set to 0, meaning unbounded in that direction in effect. As a result, I can't create LtL patterns in cylinders. Al...
by gameoflifeboy
August 13th, 2017, 11:38 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Golly 3.0b2
Replies: 61
Views: 27844

Re: Golly 3.0b2

I propose that the B/S notation be extended to describe Generations rules, and that this extension be included in the next version of Golly. The format I suggest to follow is B<birth conditions>/S<survival conditions>/G<# of cell states>. My reasons for this proposal are many: First, the lack of a c...
by gameoflifeboy
August 13th, 2017, 1:56 pm
Forum: The Sandbox
Topic: Random posts
Replies: 5930
Views: 1583113

Re: Random posts

According to this graph , a portion significantly larger than 1/37 of palindromic numbers are divisible by 37. This is probably because anything divisible by 111 is also divisible by 37. Surprisingly for me, though, it even happens when the numbers are 15 digits. I just find that interesting. It mak...