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is there anything stopping me from naming the L141 conduit "Lucy"? In Lucy+Fx153... Lucy/L141 I'll be a bit more explicit than previous posters. Please do not attempt to name new conduits. We have a tolerably effective systematic naming scheme for them. Even the most fundamental conduits (excluding...

Today, there has been EXTREME VANDALISM in the eater 1 page. I think that all these edits should be reverted. Vandalism is deliberate destruction or damage. The most recent edits to fishhook and Eater 1 were clearly made in good faith, so they are not vandalism. That being said, I think there shoul...

NewLifeCA #47, 30 April 2024 Brief addendum: New p7 Spaceships Period-7 spaceships are quite rare, so it's a bit of a surprise when two unrelated p7 ships are found in a short period of time. On March 21, 2024, Caleb R. Hilton found a 2c/7 orthogonal tagalong for two weekenders. Matthias Merzenich ...

It is sadly impossible to reduce the oscillator's period from 564 as a result of the Mazings used to eat the unwanted internal gliders. P6 or p3 eaters allow the period to be halved to p282: x = 74, y = 87, rule = B3/S23 37b2o$29b2ob2o2bo2bo$30bobo4bobo$29bo3b3obobob2o$29bob2o6bobo$30b2o2bo b2obo2b...

Can you elaborate on the purpose of this topic?

some P38 by P1GG on the forums: x = 94, y = 94, rule = B3/S23 53bo5bo$53b2o3b2o$53b2o3b2o$54bo3bo2$65b2o$64bobo$64bo$63b2o$55bobo4b o$55bo2bo3b3o$55bobo7bo$64b2o2$56bo$55b2o$51b5o2bob4o$51b3ob2o3b2obo$ 56bo4b2o5$56bo4b2o$51b3ob2o3b2obo$51b5o2bob4o$55b2o$5b2o28b2o19bo$5bo 5b2o16b2o5bo$6b3obobo16bobo...

c/3 tagalong: x = 22, y = 16, rule = B3/S23 16bo$14b3ob3o$13b2o6bo$8bo3bo2bo3b2o$7b4o$6bo3bo$7bobo2bo$11bo2$10b2o $9bo2bo$7bo6bo$5b3o6b3o$b2ob2o3bo2bo3b2ob2o$b2o2bo2bo4bo2bo2b2o$o2bo14b o2bo! Also applicable for tagalongs: x = 52, y = 16, rule = B3/S23 16bo$14b3ob3o25b2obo$13b2o6bo21b2ob2ob2o$8bo3b...

p305 glider gun with bounding box 69-by-65 (down from 83-by-64): x = 69, y = 65, rule = B3/S23 6b2o6b2o$ob2obobo6bobob2obo$2obobo10bobob2o$6bo8bo$5b2o8b2o$5b4o4b4o$ 8bo4bo$8b6o2$3b2o12b2o$3b2ob2o6b2ob2o$7b8o$8b6o$9b4o4$10b2o$b2o7b2o7b 2o$2bo16bo$2bobo12bobo$3b2o4b2o6b2o10bob2o$8bobo18b2obo$8b2o$27b...

p26 wing hassler Cool! I know I sound like a broken record at this point, but can you mention how you found it? In general, it would be helpful if people gave a very brief description of how their patterns were found. Something as simple as "by hand", or "with X search program", or "completed a par...

2009-09-14: In Talk:400P49, Matthias Merzenich decides that the pages 440P49.1 and 400P9 ought to be combined into "p49 glider shuttle," which later became p49 bouncer loop. He also proposes that the newer version be used in the infobox ... 2024-04-21 : Ever the indecisive contrarian who doubles ba...

with the two gifs, i was expirementing to see if i could post them on a forum post if i uploaded them to the wiki. Like Dave said, you should use the forum inline attachment feature, rather than the wiki. Images uploaded to the wiki that are not used on the wiki may be deleted without notice. it di...

Argh, I should've waited for it to load the last dump file before ending it (They take hours to do so). BUT, I know that the total depth was 249 when it gave me the result. Generally, I think it's a good idea to redirect output to a file by adding " > filename.txt" to the end of the line like in th...

I think that just happens sometimes. It usually doesn't last long. If it's a persistent problem for you, it would be helpful if you could give more details such as a copy-paste or screenshot of the error message, which operating system and browser you use, and when or how often the error seems to oc...

I used qfind v2.3 to find this. I typed this into the command line: qfind.exe -p 7 -y 1 -w 11 -s o -d c7ospk -e initrows.txt -t 80 Whereas initrows.txt is this: ........... ........... ........... ........... ........... ........... ........... .....o..... ........... ........... ........... .........

Look what I found! Awesome! And way more compact than I was expecting. I can't help but wonder if there's a bug in a search program. Notice that the original partial has a higher logical width than the completion, ignoring the frontend itself. x = 51, y = 48, rule = LifeHistory 3.5A5.5A15.5A5.5A$.2...

I'm assuming this wick has already been discovered, but it's neither on the TL hasslers page nor the Z hasslers page: If you wan't to know whether an oscillator is known, you should also check the osc folder of jslife , and the oscillator stamp collection in the oscillators folder of Golly. In this...

Interesting c/3 wick... Completed: x = 52, y = 135, rule = B3/S23 25b2o$21b2obo2bob2o$21b2o6b2o$21bobo4bobo$23b2o2b2o$22b2ob2ob2o$24bo2b o$22bo6bo$22bo6bo2$22b8o$21b2o6b2o2$25b2o$24bo2bo2$24bo2bo$23b6o$21b 10o$20bo10bo$18b3o10b3o$17b2obobo6bobob2o$16bo3bobo6bobo3bo$15b3o3bo2b 4o2bo3b3o$15b2o3bobo6b...

Here are updates to two patterns in the collection. spaceship-types.rle (smaller (3,0)c/7; first (1,1)c/8; minimality proofs for (1,0)c/2, (1,0)c/4, and (2,0)c/5; corrected glider discovery year): #C A period p spaceship which displaces itself (m,n) during its #C period, where m >= n, is said to be ...

There are still a few patterns that need updating (at least traffic-light-hasslers.rle, c3-orthogonal.rle, c4-orthogonal.rle, and spaceship-types.rle; probably more). How soon should this be done?

I think you're asking to preserve north clearance (the past of the NE traveling glider) and some northeast clearance (to avoid the future of the reaction we're applying the spark to). Here is an example solution that continues mostly south and southeast and I believe will fit in if I've understood ...

I found two new perturbations that remove debris from the diagonal c/4 glider advancer convoy. One of them is a small spaceship that suppresses the blockade when the fuse is ignited. The second one is the smallest spaceship which suppresses the blinker produced when the advancer emits its glider. V...

Can a NE-traveling glider stream be turned around and shifted (a dirty solution would be fine) to complete become the input of a p488 advancer? x = 435, y = 491, rule = B3/S23 434bo$432b2o$433b2o242$434bo$432b2o$433b2o68$280bo7bo$279b2o5b2obo$ 279bobo3b2o2bo$283b2o2bo$281b5o$273b3ob2ob3o$273bo2bobob...

p36 gun reduced from 49x30 (1470-cell BB) to 47x30 (1410-cell BB) using a modification to the existing Jason's p36 mechanism that releases the glider using a different sparker layout Reduced further to 49x28 (1372-cell BB) using a custom sparker (smaller solutions probably exist): x = 49, y = 28, r...

If I'm not wrong, zfind is able to search for knightships. Does anyone know how the gfind search space is modified in order to allow for these searches? I was working on implementing oblique / diagonal searches for cfind (unfortunately oblique searches don't work yet), so I'm curious to see how thi...

It might also be possible to ignite the glider-advancer wick without the intermediate glider: x = 123, y = 97, rule = B3/S23 118b2o$118bobo$85b3o30bo$85bo35bo$86bo34b2o$85b3o25bo7b2o$85b3ob2o21b 2o6b2o$89bo2bo19bob4ob2o$92bo22bo5bo$79bo8bo25b2o3b2o$78b2o8b3o22b5o$ 78bobo2b6o25bo$69bo12b5o19b3o4b2o$6...