I think that article should continue to refer to B2a as a transition.
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- April 25th, 2024, 6:38 pm
- Forum: LifeWiki Discussion
- Topic: Rule definition terminology
- Replies: 102
- Views: 5540
Re: Rule definition terminology
- September 25th, 2023, 6:16 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Poll: should the LifeWiki definition of the term "signal" be adjusted?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 4411
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...
- November 8th, 2021, 10:39 pm
- Forum: Scripts
- Topic: Thread for your script-related questions
- Replies: 375
- Views: 108536
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...
- November 6th, 2021, 1:08 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Thread for basic questions
- Replies: 4820
- Views: 1238515
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...
- October 23rd, 2021, 1:22 pm
- Forum: Patterns
- Topic: Oscillator Discussion Thread
- Replies: 4573
- Views: 1704525
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? ...
- October 22nd, 2021, 3:06 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: CGOL patterns as NFTs
- Replies: 169
- Views: 22138
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...
- October 19th, 2021, 7:01 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: CGOL patterns as NFTs
- Replies: 169
- Views: 22138
Re: CGOL patterns as NFTs
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.
- October 14th, 2021, 9:14 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: CGOL patterns as NFTs
- Replies: 169
- Views: 22138
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...
- October 10th, 2021, 3:37 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: CGOL patterns as NFTs
- Replies: 169
- Views: 22138
Re: CGOL patterns as NFTs
Indeed, you have gone from vigorously opposing it to… hypothetically not opposing it. (???)
- October 6th, 2021, 6:25 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Thread for basic questions
- Replies: 4820
- Views: 1238515
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...
- September 25th, 2021, 12:48 pm
- Forum: Patterns
- Topic: Still Life Synthesis Thread
- Replies: 638
- Views: 183950
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...
- September 1st, 2021, 7:12 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Catagolue Oddities
- Replies: 777
- Views: 352941
- August 28th, 2021, 2:26 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: LifeLine Magazine?
- Replies: 29
- Views: 20524
Re: LifeLine Magazine?
"Thompson's 6-bit methuselah" according to mniemiec's database.Sokwe wrote: ↑August 28th, 2021, 7:32 amEdit: does the following pattern or any of its relatives have a name?Code: Select all
x = 5, y = 3, rule = B3/S23 3o$3bo$3b2o!
- August 24th, 2021, 9:54 pm
- Forum: Patterns
- Topic: Synthesising Oscillators
- Replies: 1875
- Views: 1133649
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$24b...
- August 24th, 2021, 7:49 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Catagolue Discussion Thread
- Replies: 541
- Views: 235789
Re: Catagolue Discussion Thread
Some changes to Catagolue have just been made. Most notably, the maximum response size is now 32 MB (as opposed to 1 MB), allowing for Catagolue to store the entirety of xs21s and xs22s (maybe xs23s too) in b3s23/synthesis-costs without having to modify too much of the src. Total memory has been upp...
- August 21st, 2021, 3:05 am
- Forum: The Sandbox
- Topic: Catalyses (Game)
- Replies: 368
- Views: 45008
Re: Catalyses (Game)
Next pattern: x = 6, y = 6, rule = B3/S23 bo$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!
- August 20th, 2021, 3:58 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Ruletable format extensions proposal
- Replies: 46
- Views: 3122
- August 20th, 2021, 3:54 pm
- Forum: Website Discussion
- Topic: Pattern viewer for forum threads
- Replies: 3430
- Views: 847074
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...
- August 18th, 2021, 12:52 am
- Forum: Website Discussion
- Topic: Pattern viewer for forum threads
- Replies: 3430
- Views: 847074
Re: Pattern viewer for forum threads
yes this is intentional move onpzq_alex wrote: ↑August 18th, 2021, 12:03 amLifeWiki article on LifeHistory wrote: State 5: start alive; enters state 4 upon death, and will never reappear during evolution.Code: Select all
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 ]]
- August 17th, 2021, 8:25 pm
- Forum: Website Discussion
- Topic: Pattern viewer for forum threads
- Replies: 3430
- Views: 847074
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...
- August 16th, 2021, 1:25 am
- Forum: The Sandbox
- Topic: Catalyses (Game)
- Replies: 368
- Views: 45008
Re: Catalyses (Game)
H':Entity Valkyrie 2 wrote: ↑August 15th, 2021, 7:06 pmnext one (do not eat this):Code: Select all
x = 5, y = 5, rule = B3/S23 2b2o$3b2o$2b2o$obo$bo!
Code: Select all
x = 22, y = 18, rule = B3/S23
20b2o$20b2o4$15b2o$16b2o$15b2o$13bobo$14bo5$2o$o$b3o$3bo!
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x = 5, y = 7, rule = B3/S23
3bo$2b3o$b2obo2$ob2o$3o$bo!
- August 14th, 2021, 2:06 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Catagolue Discussion Thread
- Replies: 541
- Views: 235789
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...
- August 3rd, 2021, 2:08 am
- Forum: Website Discussion
- Topic: Pattern viewer for forum threads
- Replies: 3430
- Views: 847074
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?
- July 29th, 2021, 2:41 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Thread for basic questions
- Replies: 4820
- Views: 1238515
Re: Thread for basic questions
The number of varieties of Heinz ketchup. If you look at a bottle of Heinz ketchup, it says "57 Heinz varieties".
- July 28th, 2021, 3:04 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Thread for basic questions
- Replies: 4820
- Views: 1238515
Re: Thread for basic questions
What are you talking about?Citation needed wrote: ↑July 28th, 2021, 2:37 amWhat 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?