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by bubblegum
September 25th, 2023, 6:16 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Poll: should the LifeWiki definition of the term "signal" be adjusted?
Replies: 16
Views: 4325

Re: Poll: should the LifeWiki definition of the term "signal" be adjusted?

For posterity, so silversmith's post from a good few days ago doesn't appear like the last word on the subject: the majority view and only sense of the term for most of its existence is that the LifeWiki definition of the term "drifter" is, strictly speaking, incorrect and is generally understood as...
by bubblegum
November 8th, 2021, 10:39 pm
Forum: Scripts
Topic: Thread for your script-related questions
Replies: 343
Views: 105845

Re: Thread for your script-related questions

I managed to get it working following those instructions. However, there is an error in the apgsearch script I wanted to run (hacked apgsearch 1.0): "ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'urllib2'". apgsearch 0.x and 1.x are for Python 2.x and Golly 3.x only. Modern versions of apgsearch use C++ an...
by bubblegum
November 6th, 2021, 1:08 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Thread for basic questions
Replies: 4725
Views: 1219511

Re: Thread for basic questions

Last time I checked, eater one does not have a transparent debris effect, and is used to eat small spaceships and sparks, I've never heard of a transparent reaction with eater one before. If there is one of these transparent debris reactions with an eater one then it would almost certainly be the r...
by bubblegum
October 23rd, 2021, 1:22 pm
Forum: Patterns
Topic: Oscillator Discussion Thread
Replies: 4445
Views: 1670098

Re: Oscillator Discussion Thread

I reduced it :) Welcome to the forums! The point of the oscillators above was to rephase the 50P9 on the bottom though, so while this could be considered a reduction in some sense, it doesn't really serve a purpose anymore. Based on 35P12: are there any other oscillators where this actually works? ...
by bubblegum
October 22nd, 2021, 3:06 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: CGOL patterns as NFTs
Replies: 169
Views: 21556

Re: CGOL patterns as NFTs

it's just the first Mona Lisa, there are millions others. Well, the first Mona Lisa is a masterpiece and a perfect demonstration of the artistic skills of the famous and influential Leonardo da Vinci, while the millions of other Mona Lisas are demonstrations of just how easy and common it is to get...
by bubblegum
October 19th, 2021, 7:01 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: CGOL patterns as NFTs
Replies: 169
Views: 21556

Re: CGOL patterns as NFTs

simsim314 wrote:
October 19th, 2021, 1:39 pm
Would you pay 5$ for the original Mona Lisa? Why? You can print it from google images for much cheaper. It just the first painting.
Legal concerns aside, $5 for the original Mona Lisa is a ridiculously good deal for the buyer, while the Google Images print is a scam.
by bubblegum
October 14th, 2021, 9:14 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: CGOL patterns as NFTs
Replies: 169
Views: 21556

Re: CGOL patterns as NFTs

I'm not entirely up to date with what NFTs actually are: what I know is that they're marketable formalities, something that can be created, owned, bought and sold but are nothing, in that they are not physical objects, nor software, nor numbers on paper or a computer equivalent to money, nor anythi...
by bubblegum
October 10th, 2021, 3:37 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: CGOL patterns as NFTs
Replies: 169
Views: 21556

Re: CGOL patterns as NFTs

pcallahan wrote:
October 9th, 2021, 7:12 pm
In my mind, it has gone from "What a terrible idea, and who would even want that?" to "I wouldn't mind if it worked, but it obviously won't." (That's a real position change, right?)
Indeed, you have gone from vigorously opposing it to… hypothetically not opposing it.  (???)
by bubblegum
October 6th, 2021, 6:25 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Thread for basic questions
Replies: 4725
Views: 1219511

Re: Thread for basic questions

thanks for the info (Here's a tip: now that the forums have the like post feature, you can just heart the response rather than posting a separate message to thank!) […] it never speeds up at quite the speed that I want it to speed up, anyway. How is Hyperspeed's speed-up calculated?  I always thoug...
by bubblegum
September 25th, 2021, 12:48 pm
Forum: Patterns
Topic: Still Life Synthesis Thread
Replies: 618
Views: 179588

Re: Still Life Synthesis Thread

I checked the obvious 9G possibilities -- two-blinkers-plus-beehive in 3G, or beehive-plus-phi-spark in 3G -- but nothing came up, and I didn't see anything else to try. There was the positioning of the green glider in the second step, which with a lucky collision might've gotten rid of the TL, but...
by bubblegum
September 1st, 2021, 7:12 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Catagolue Oddities
Replies: 769
Views: 348917

Re: Catagolue Oddities

yujh wrote:
September 1st, 2021, 3:47 pm
where, is the number of objects?is all isotopic rules like this?
No, the census name is just too long to fit the object count with.
by bubblegum
August 28th, 2021, 2:26 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: LifeLine Magazine?
Replies: 29
Views: 20345

Re: LifeLine Magazine?

Sokwe wrote:
August 28th, 2021, 7:32 am
Edit: does the following pattern or any of its relatives have a name?

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x = 5, y = 3, rule = B3/S23
3o$3bo$3b2o!
"Thompson's 6-bit methuselah" according to mniemiec's database.
by bubblegum
August 24th, 2021, 9:54 pm
Forum: Patterns
Topic: Synthesising Oscillators
Replies: 1862
Views: 1123997

Re: Synthesising Oscillators

Solved the two remaining 16-bit p2s: x = 111, y = 65, rule = B3/S23 35bo$34bo$34b3o2$11bo$12bo$bo8b3o82bo$2bo91bo$3o91b3o$32bo$31bo60b2o$ 31b3o58b2o5$86b2o$7bo78bobobo$5bobo82bo18bo$6b2o80bo2bo4b2o10bo$96b2o 10b3o$86bobobobo$86b2o3b2o8bobo$101b2o$102bo$78bo$79bo2b2o11b2o5b2o$ 77b3obo2bo10b2o5b2o$24b...
by bubblegum
August 24th, 2021, 7:49 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Catagolue Discussion Thread
Replies: 541
Views: 233975

Re: Catagolue Discussion Thread

Some changes to Catagolue have just been made. Most notably, the maximum response size is now 32 MB (as opposed to 1 MB), allowing for Catagolue to store the entirety of xs21s and xs22s (maybe xs23s too) in b3s23/synthesis-costs without having to modify too much of the src. Total memory has been upp...
by bubblegum
August 21st, 2021, 3:05 am
Forum: The Sandbox
Topic: Catalyses (Game)
Replies: 343
Views: 43504

Re: Catalyses (Game)

Next pattern: x = 6, y = 6, rule = B3/S23 bo$bo$b2o$2bo$obob2o$2b2o! Eaten: x = 22, y = 19, rule = B3/S23 6b2o$6b2o$2o$bo19bo$bobo15b3o$2b2o14bo$18b2o$9bo$9bo$9b2o$10bo$8bobob 2o$10b2o3$17b2o$10b2o5bo$10b2o6b3o$20bo! Next: x = 10, y = 10, rule = B3/S23 o$b2o$2o2b2o$4b2o4$3bo3b3o$3b2o$2b2o!
by bubblegum
August 20th, 2021, 3:58 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Ruletable format extensions proposal
Replies: 10
Views: 2337

Re: Ruletable format extensions proposal

muzik wrote:
August 20th, 2021, 12:12 pm
This is already the case and has been for a decade:
Wait, I thought the blue was supposed to be the head and the white the tail.
by bubblegum
August 20th, 2021, 3:54 pm
Forum: Website Discussion
Topic: Pattern viewer for forum threads
Replies: 3383
Views: 835342

Re: Pattern viewer for forum threads

That's weird, because this following overflow implies the existence of some sort of 32-bit integer data type: Interesting - Number cannot overflow, as any number larger than about 1.8×10^38 is rounded up to Infinity. Additionally, no numeric types built-in to JavaScript are signed. However, some op...
by bubblegum
August 18th, 2021, 12:52 am
Forum: Website Discussion
Topic: Pattern viewer for forum threads
Replies: 3383
Views: 835342

Re: Pattern viewer for forum threads

pzq_alex wrote:
August 18th, 2021, 12:03 am
LifeWiki article on LifeHistory wrote: State 5: start alive; enters state 4 upon death, and will never reappear during evolution.

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x = 5, y = 5, rule = LifeHistory
.A$2.A$3A2$4.E!
[[ AUTOSTART GPS 8 T 0 PAUSE 1 T 4 PAUSE 1 T 8 PAUSE 0.5 LOOP 30 ]]
yes this is intentional move on
by bubblegum
August 17th, 2021, 8:25 pm
Forum: Website Discussion
Topic: Pattern viewer for forum threads
Replies: 3383
Views: 835342

Re: Pattern viewer for forum threads

So I assume the only data type for numbers is a 64-bit float, and there are no natively supported integer-only or such data types? There are two - Number and BigInt (infinite-length integer); BigInt is relatively new and for compatibility with older browsers like Internet Explorer, which nobody use...
by bubblegum
August 16th, 2021, 1:25 am
Forum: The Sandbox
Topic: Catalyses (Game)
Replies: 343
Views: 43504

Re: Catalyses (Game)

Entity Valkyrie 2 wrote:
August 15th, 2021, 7:06 pm
next one (do not eat this):

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x = 5, y = 5, rule = B3/S23
2b2o$3b2o$2b2o$obo$bo!
H':

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x = 22, y = 18, rule = B3/S23
20b2o$20b2o4$15b2o$16b2o$15b2o$13bobo$14bo5$2o$o$b3o$3bo!
Next:

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x = 5, y = 7, rule = B3/S23
3bo$2b3o$b2obo2$ob2o$3o$bo!
by bubblegum
August 14th, 2021, 2:06 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Catagolue Discussion Thread
Replies: 541
Views: 233975

Re: Catagolue Discussion Thread

I have a questions about catagolue. How can one find the rle files for zz_EXPLOSIVE zz_LINEAR zz_QUADRATIC zz_REPLICATOR and PATHOLOGICAL, and what does there name represent? These aren't apgcodes, and as such have no RLE files. Check the sample soups. These are blanket terms, since apgsearch can't...
by bubblegum
August 3rd, 2021, 2:08 am
Forum: Website Discussion
Topic: Pattern viewer for forum threads
Replies: 3383
Views: 835342

Re: Pattern viewer for forum threads

Patterns initially entirely dead will not show "Life ended at generation N" when sparks are drawn in while the viewer is running, until the viewer is paused and a pattern drawn in; is this intended?
by bubblegum
July 29th, 2021, 2:41 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Thread for basic questions
Replies: 4725
Views: 1219511

Re: Thread for basic questions

ColorfulGabrielsp138 wrote:
July 29th, 2021, 9:15 am
What's "Heins ketchup varieties"?
The number of varieties of Heinz ketchup. If you look at a bottle of Heinz ketchup, it says "57 Heinz varieties".
by bubblegum
July 28th, 2021, 3:04 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Thread for basic questions
Replies: 4725
Views: 1219511

Re: Thread for basic questions

Citation needed wrote:
July 28th, 2021, 2:37 am
What is the apgcode of the U-turner methuselah?
Shouldn't it be xp0_35ee?
Why did they say "xp0_211u" on LifeWiki, which refers to a completely different pattern?
What are you talking about?
by bubblegum
July 25th, 2021, 2:57 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Thread for basic questions
Replies: 4725
Views: 1219511

Re: Thread for basic questions

What is the difference between the snorkel loop and the "snorkel loop on block"? Well, the snorkel loop on block has a block on the snorkel loop. More specifically, the snorkel loop on block is one of these three pseudos: x = 25, y = 11, rule = B3/S23 21b2o$21b2o2$5b2o6b2o6b2o$4bo2bo4bo2bo4bo2bo$5b...