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by dvgrn
Today, 4:37 pm
Forum: Website Discussion
Topic: Thread for your website-related questions
Replies: 310
Views: 55095

Re: Thread for your website-related questions

Tawal wrote:
Today, 4:19 pm
Do you see the "Edit2" at the end of my post ?

Edit2: It works fine here...
Scroll down and have a look in the bottom of your code block. There's a little problem with the closing code tag, which means the whole rest of the post is getting treated as code.
by dvgrn
Today, 9:36 am
Forum: LifeWiki Discussion
Topic: LifeWiki Edit War Reporting Thread
Replies: 39
Views: 2727

Re: LifeWiki Edit War Reporting Thread

I believe there's a misunderstanding here, and that what Haycat is trying to say is that "the majority of SKOPs with prime period are rectifier loops". Thanks -- that's the perspective I was looking for, and for some reason couldn't find! I've added a separate sentence at the bottom of the section ...
by dvgrn
Yesterday, 8:22 am
Forum: LifeWiki Discussion
Topic: LifeWiki Trusted Account Request Thread - Post requests here
Replies: 789
Views: 288192

Re: LifeWiki Trusted Account Request Thread - Post requests here

I just need to post a post to make my account to be trusted? Trusted flag is added. Read through the links in the How to contribute link on the LifeWiki home page before you get too far into editing. I don’t know how to make a life lexicon or we just can’t make it? Not sure what this question means...
by dvgrn
March 16th, 2024, 9:27 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Golly 4.3b1
Replies: 10
Views: 269

Re: Golly 4.3b1

Will http://golly.sourceforge.net/ be updated? That happens after the above beta version gets tested, and a few more changes get rolled in (e.g., adapting toStandard.lua to deal with Investigator rules). The final 4.3 version will be downloadable from SourceForge. That won't happen for a while yet,...
by dvgrn
March 15th, 2024, 3:38 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Thread for basic questions
Replies: 4710
Views: 1217994

Re: Thread for basic questions

Can anyone prove that stripey.rle does not have any two-glider destruction? Yikes -- I don't think we quite have the tools for that ready to hand, though maybe it isn't absolutely impossible. For example, we pretty much have to try every single possible collision between the following pattern and o...
by dvgrn
March 15th, 2024, 9:22 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Thread for basic questions
Replies: 4710
Views: 1217994

Re: Thread for basic questions

The main distinction is not connectedness/density. What makes the difference is lack of displacement or change of phase. True, a reburnable fuse that gets displaced isn't necessarily a wire (until enough signals are sent along it to restore it). The connectedness (or at least proximity) still seems...
by dvgrn
March 14th, 2024, 10:17 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Thread for basic questions
Replies: 4710
Views: 1217994

Re: Thread for basic questions

What is the difference between a wire and a reburnable fuse? They seem to be synonyms. They're not quite synonyms, though they're definitely on a continuum. "Wire" pretty universally refers to a connected clump of cells, with some unit of repetition. Things that have been called "reburnable fuses" ...
by dvgrn
March 14th, 2024, 4:48 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: [Rule]Investigator support in Golly
Replies: 38
Views: 3024

Re: [Rule]Investigator support in Golly

Dave are you planning these updates for the upcoming 4.3 Golly release? I will certainly get around to working on those changes eventually. This week just hasn't been good at all for free time -- contractors working on my father-in-law's house while I'm in it, up to eight or ten at a time. Next wee...
by dvgrn
March 14th, 2024, 1:51 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Suggested patterns for Golly
Replies: 179
Views: 21632

Re: Suggested patterns for Golly

I've noticed that comments in the pattern files seem to use three different formats for paragraphs: 1. Blank line before each paragraph... 2. Indentation on the 1st line of a paragraph... 3. Indentation on all lines of a paragraph except the 1st... We seem to be moving to #3 as the preferred format...
by dvgrn
March 13th, 2024, 9:54 am
Forum: Patterns
Topic: Faster 2c/3 Wires
Replies: 27
Views: 3076

Re: Faster 2c/3 Wires

Sorry, I'm confused. Are you saying that you are the discoverer and oregan0 is your Discord username? Also, can I get a link to where the pattern was first posted on Discord and where it was first posted on the forums? That's right -- affamatodidio == oregan0 . I haven't yet dug up the original pos...
by dvgrn
March 13th, 2024, 9:47 am
Forum: Patterns
Topic: Faster 2c/3 Wires
Replies: 27
Views: 3076

Re: Faster 2c/3 Wires

Are you referring to this insertion reaction? (1) Two timed gliders collide to construct a beehive (2) Five timed gliders collide to inject the signal (3) One glider restores the end of wire... Yup -- more or less. By the time that reaction was built into a working X-to-2c/3 circuit, it had evolved...
by dvgrn
March 12th, 2024, 9:57 pm
Forum: Patterns
Topic: Faster 2c/3 Wires
Replies: 27
Views: 3076

Re: Faster 2c/3 Wires

This can in theory inject signals with rt 56... Wow -- I'm still trying to get used to the implications of this discovery. The original 2c/3 wire insertion required synchronizing five signals, with two more coming along sometime later. Extrementhusiast's improvement got that recipe down to four syn...
by dvgrn
March 12th, 2024, 6:16 pm
Forum: Patterns
Topic: Gun Discussion Thread
Replies: 677
Views: 219961

Re: Gun Discussion Thread

This time I checked the gun and guntrue tabulations on Catagolue. I do not see this period in either. If you paste the RLE for a gun like this into the "nonmagical box" at the bottom of this Catagolue page , the gun will show up there in a few hours. There are a lot of missing periods, of course, a...
by dvgrn
March 12th, 2024, 9:37 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Thread for basic questions
Replies: 4710
Views: 1217994

Re: Thread for basic questions

This G to MWSS Converter is only 20 cells away from being the "perfect" Edge Shooter - anybody got a fix ? I'm getting 19 cells when I try to measure the distance that the MWSS output lane would have to move upward, to clear the top edge of the pattern. Is that what the "20 cells away" refers to? T...
by dvgrn
March 11th, 2024, 10:33 am
Forum: Patterns
Topic: Oscillator Discussion Thread
Replies: 4423
Views: 1666859

Re: Oscillator Discussion Thread

p56 blinker factory, reaction found by Luke Kiernan on the Discord... Seems like there's a bit more clearance if you put the blinker on the other side: x = 40, y = 41, rule = B3/S23 16b3o$15bo$14b2o3bo$12b3obo8b2o$2o9b2obobobo4bo2bo$bo8bobo2bo9bo$bobo 8b2o5bo5bo2b2o$2b2o2bo5bo5b2o8bobo$6bo9bo2bobo8...
by dvgrn
March 11th, 2024, 8:51 am
Forum: LifeWiki Discussion
Topic: Mikipedia clutter
Replies: 33
Views: 2136

Re: Mikipedia clutter

Since you suggested to leave a greeting message, why not be a role model and get the ball rolling? I am sure others will follow. Well, remember that the forums and the LifeWiki are only "reluctantly moderated". The members of the community are the people run the forums and the LifeWiki, and the ide...
by dvgrn
March 10th, 2024, 11:14 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Suggested patterns for Golly
Replies: 179
Views: 21632

Re: Suggested patterns for Golly

Also, now the patterns in my previous post can function normally. The sqrt-growth pattern certainly works now, as confocaloid demonstrated. That and the other three patterns aren't really workable candidates for Golly's pattern collection yet. I've explained some of the reasons for that; I can try ...
by dvgrn
March 9th, 2024, 9:16 pm
Forum: Patterns
Topic: Thread For Your Useless Discoveries
Replies: 4492
Views: 1747587

Re: Thread For Your Useless Discoveries

There's no general guaranteed method for either discovering or constructing more of these. These special-case puffers are moderately interesting, but it's only in rare cases that they end up being usable to solve any larger problems. I.e., any given discovery of this special-case type is usually so...
by dvgrn
March 9th, 2024, 12:13 pm
Forum: Patterns
Topic: Traffic jam redux
Replies: 4
Views: 189

Re: Traffic jam redux

On the traffic jam page, there are examples for 102 (2 mod 4) and 104 (0 mod 4). These can be extended, so 154 would have the 102 design since 154 is 2 mod 4. Yup. I was able to confirm by experiment that the p2700 loop can perfectly well be extended by just two traffic lights at a time, not four (...
by dvgrn
March 9th, 2024, 10:21 am
Forum: Patterns
Topic: Spaceship Discussion Thread
Replies: 3006
Views: 1112353

Re: Spaceship Discussion Thread

I'm hoping there is a reaction using three (or maybe just two) still lifes which will shift a glider by one full diagonal. Combining that with the reaction above would be a better fuse using fewer than eight still lives. The shift doesn't even have to burn at c/4, just not toooo slow. There are qui...
by dvgrn
March 9th, 2024, 10:09 am
Forum: Patterns
Topic: Traffic jam redux
Replies: 4
Views: 189

Re: Traffic jam redux

This is the same p2700 loop folded up in a reasonably clean way... Oh, good. I must have just done something wrong in my earlier attempts at adjusting the p102+6n family. Once I have the p2700 loop, I can adjust it to make a p2550 loop (which is what's needed to make the smallest +/-6n family membe...
by dvgrn
March 9th, 2024, 8:25 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Suggested patterns for Golly
Replies: 179
Views: 21632

Re: Suggested patterns for Golly

[...]The first pattern above is an example of linear growth, not sqrt growth. [...] canvas.png Heh, b-engine updated the pattern after I posted that: The first pattern actually only works in old version of B-Univ. I've edited the post to the newest sqrt growth. Apparently the second pattern is stil...
by dvgrn
March 9th, 2024, 7:12 am
Forum: Patterns
Topic: Traffic jam redux
Replies: 4
Views: 189

Re: Traffic jam redux

Another side issue is the somewhat awkward size of the long thin example oscillators in the current article, with 25 signals in each one. It occurs to me that those patterns don't really have to be long and thin. A first rebuild of a p2700 loop suitable for making a p108 oscillator looks like this: ...
by dvgrn
March 9th, 2024, 7:09 am
Forum: Patterns
Topic: Traffic jam redux
Replies: 4
Views: 189

Traffic jam redux

Some improvements that hotdogPi made recently to the LifeWiki traffic jam article got us into some trouble in follow-up discussion on Discord, because more and more explanation seemed to be needed to explain exactly how the three infinite families of traffic jam oscillators from 1994 can be extended...
by dvgrn
March 9th, 2024, 5:51 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Suggested patterns for Golly
Replies: 179
Views: 21632

Re: Suggested patterns for Golly

These are needed to add into patterns\self-rep\B-Univ... #N sqrt growth #O b-engine, 15 February 2024 #C This pattern exhibits sqrt growth by extending the signal loop... #N W110 simulator in B-Univ #N This is the first Turing complete device in B-Univ ... #C This demonstrate the universal construc...