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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...

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...

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...

EDIT: It works! Does it? Better than before, for sure -- but with a p287 test input gun and a p143 drive gun, if you haven't run your pattern and confirmed a p41041 oscillator, you don't actually know if it works or not. Gun periods can be pretty much anything above the repeat time of the circuitry...

Here's the proof of concept for a stable universal regulator using the new L141 conduit: ... A beehive does occur, but it doesn't seem to mess anything up. That's a long way from universal, I'm afraid. You've picked drive gun and test input periods that are both a multiple of 13. If the test glider...

AlbertArmStain wrote: ↑

May 1st, 2024, 11:59 am

Block keeper...
It can also be used as a stable universal regulator

How?

It's probably about time for another NewLifeCA issue or two. I intend to write up an issue on the new c/4 diagonal technology soon (especially given today's new discoveries). Before that, there should be an issue covering the various other Life results... I've done a relatively brief email summary ...

is there anything stopping me from naming the L141 conduit "Lucy"? I can't think of anything offhand. L141 would be the only H-to-H conduit that has gotten a non-systematic name, though. Speaking for myself... I'm probably not going to want to expend much effort trying to remember that L141 = Lucy....

what makes the recently-discovered L141 so interesting? Details can be found here . Long story short, there's a provably universal but very limited toolkit of Spartan Herschel conduits that can be used to build self-constructing patterns -- i.e. circuitry that slsparse can automatically compile int...

NewLifeCA #47, 30 April 2024: catch-up issue for 2024 so far Every now and then, Real Life gets in the way of Conway's Life documentation. Sometimes this happens to such a large extent that it becomes unlikely that NewLifeCA newsletters will ever be able to get properly caught up with current event...

L141... Wow! That's a rare one. There are even a couple of completely Spartan versions, in the oldest sense of "Spartan" -- a sidesnagger works, and/or there's no need to weld the eater to the boat, unless additional clearance is needed for the output. And two of them can be chained together: x = 5...

Haycat2009 wrote: ↑

April 29th, 2024, 9:35 pm

But today is April 30 in my Time zone. Sorry for hassling you or sounding like an unblock request.

No problem! Okay, then, close enough...

(Maybe we're halfway between a 30-day month and a 31-day month now.)

tradition or something idk Pretty much exactly that. Those were John Conway's terms, from around 1970 -- it somehow didn't seem quite as weird a choice back then. But 1970 was somewhere around the time when people were only just starting to think that maybe using "he" as a "gender-neutral" indefini...

I think that 1 month (plus 3 days) is over. Do not forget that the block is for one month! Not to worry, I'm keeping a close eye on the date. The tempban, or rather temp-trusted-flag-removal, was on March 30, and tomorrow is April 30. (... That might be a month plus one day depending on how you cal...

are these bitmaps built in or do you have to paste them in? There's no need to think of a Python script as a deep dark mystery -- just read it and see what it seems to be doing. You don't really have to know Python to do that. The script currently has a sample pre-defined character map that looks l...

This may be the wrong thread, but how do I contribute to b3s23osc_stdin and Catagolue's gun and guntrue pages? Either this thread or the "Basic questions" thread seems like a reasonable choice -- Catagolue isn't really the conwaylife.com website, but it's linked to in the header anyway! For an over...

Can you provide a printer that prints out any ASCII character? I need it for a hypothetical typewriter and the simple “Hello world” program. That linked post has all the tools you need to build a printer like that. You supply the bitmaps of the characters that you want, at the resolution that you w...

Here's the writeup I mentioned yesterday, that could be a starting point for a LifeWiki page. Existing uses of "transition" could link to this explanation. Now is not necessarily the right time to add a page like this to the LifeWiki -- I'm happy to continue the discussion as long as there seem to b...

I want to see those changes be implemented, and I would support using them in LifeWiki articles in general. Many thanks! Your response and H. H. P. M. P. Cole's are exactly the kind of feedback that I've been asking for, from people who would like to see confocaloid's suggested transition->conditio...

I'm sorry to say this, but I am on confocaloid's side. Why sorry? People agreeing with confocaloid, especially about the proper definition of "transition", is exactly what I've been asking for. It's not quite clear to me yet if the definition of "transition" is what you're agreeing with confocaloid...

The most productive thing to do would be for you to acknowledge that you're a side in this conflict, and undo your edit adding the only redlink to that target. No other changes from you are needed at this point in this debate. I certainly do acknowledge that in some sense I'm "a side in this confli...

...the most productive thing to do remains to wait until someone else , an uninvolved editor, decides to go and fix the actual problems with LifeWiki articles. Um... it's true that there's no particularly huge urgency about settling this issue. On the other hand, I've tried this "most productive" o...

Applying the label "forum jargon" to an idea doesn't disqualify it from consideration. Quite a number of people have now stated that the current use of "transition" on the LifeWiki is perfectly acceptable. No one has yet spoken up to say specifically that they want to see your proposed changes to th...

The word 'transition', as used on these forums, is local forum jargon. It's not a technical term, and doesn't have a single well-defined universal meaning. Different people mean different things in different contexts when they use the word. I don't see any evidence at all of any of these statements...

... confocaloid is completely correct in arguing that LifeWiki articles should be edited for ease of understanding, even if it means replacing "transition" with "condition" wherever it would make the meaning more intuitive. Sure, I can agree completely with that -- nothing wrong with ease of unders...