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Hey, I made https://github.com/PraseodymiumSpike/Go ... ern-Finder to help in finding patterns inside larger patterns. I hope it may be included in Golly in the future. I may continue to update it so that it works for more than just 2-state rules.

I would like to throw my conjecture into the ring. It is detailed here: viewtopic.php?f=11&t=5942.

I found this interesting article, but I don't know if it actually applies to this problem or not: https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/82429819.pdf.

Talking about FHP specifically, I think the person was talking about waves in a medium that already has a certain density of living cells, so my conjecture doesn't really apply anyway.

I think that my criterion is actually a bit more strict than asymptotically approaching a circle. It's closer to this: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/466875732988264466/1073779924319621150/Circular_Expander_Diagram_2.png . If we take the red region to be the set of cells that have been alive...

I did not actually look at RandomLife.lua. Sorry, I really should have looked through the thread before posting my question.

Here are some of the more specific issues I had and some ideas to make it easier for future users. The function `ParseRule` does not indicate that it should be setting global variables at all, and considering that it's generally considered a bad idea to set global variables, that isn't something mos...

I should clarify what I mean by "non-isotropic cellular automaton". I am only including cellular automata that can be notated using the method described in the "Range-1 Moore neighbourhood" section of this page: https://conwaylife.com/w/index.php?titl ... did=116684.

I conjecture the following: In no non-isotropic cellular automaton is there a circularly expanding pattern—a pattern such that there exists a natural number n and a constant k such that the number of generations it takes for a cell (x,y) to first become alive differs from (x^2+y^2)^(1/2)/k by at mos...

Are there any known spaceships that move at an atan(3/4) angle to the grid? Using fairy chess terminology, this would apparently be "antelopewise".

Hi, I'm trying to create a script with NewCA.lua in Golly. It asks to provide part of the `... code to create the next pattern in newcells ...` as part of the function `NextPattern`. However, this function does not take in a parameter for the rule being used, so I don't see how to access that inform...