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Something I think could be beneficial is to either expand glossary of basic terms or make a more thorough glossary page. Updating the Life Lexicon seems to be a much slower process and it's not entirely complete for newer terminology like "index fossil" (a term for an object that appears twice or mo...

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Technically off-topic, but two of that new shuttle can hassle a ship still life: x = 32, y = 32, rule = B3/S23 18b2o$18bo$16bobo$16b2o$10b2o$9bo2b2o$10bo3bo$11bo2bo$11b3o3$6b3o$5bo 2bo22bo$5bo3bo6b2o11b3o$6b2o2bo5bobo9bo$8b2o7b2o9b2o$2b2o$bobo20b2o$bo 21bo2bo$2o21bo2bo$23b2o2bo$17bo7bobo$16bobo7bo$1...

This pair of puffers looks like any other, but I realized while looking deeper that it actually has a sort of parasitic growth on it: x = 93, y = 63, rule = B3/S23 11bo$11b2o$3o$bo$2bo7$3b3o48$89bobo$92bo$88bo2bo$87b3o! It's more obvious if we strike the parasitic glider with a glider of our own, el...

It is omniperiodic. A reflector loop can be made for any period. p3: x = 8, y = 8, rule = Billiards 3.2E2$2.C2.D$E6.E$E6.E$2.B2.A2$3.2E! p5: x = 12, y = 12, rule = Billiards 5.2E3$3.C4.D2$E10.E$E10.E2$3.B4.A3$5.2E! Guns of every period >= 2 exist too: x = 7, y = 6, rule = Billiards .2E$EC.E$E.A$.2E....

I think a much more productive solution would either be to have Golly autosave when pressing start, fix the underlying bug with the stop button, or just manually save patterns that you worked hard on periodically.

Hi there, I'm quite a golly noob, and I'm really fascinated with Cellular autonoma. I have a pretty good pc, yet it stutters sometimes. This does not happen with the computers at my high school. Am i supposed to set a priority for golly to fix this? It might be your refresh rate. My monitor is 144H...

What can be said about the complexity-to-cost ratio? Is 5 instructions the optimal balance between the circuitry being too large and the encoded data being too large?

Whoever haukeworpel is PLEASE stop searching B456/S234. It's clogging up Catagolue and making hauls take hours to submit.

Is there a highway robber that uses a block for a bait? I don't think it would be possible to use just a block as bait, no. It just pulls the block (2, 1) without doing much that can generate signals. If you use multiple objects there's plenty of things that can produce an output signal, then you j...

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May 4th, 2022, 7:57 am

replaced P3 part to an eater 1

Those big p3s are typically used to reduce the bounding box, which is the usual metric applied to guns for some reason. Yours is 61x60 while with the p3 it's 60x60. I think this metric is used because guns are often packed together closely.

I found some adjustable GPSE pair puffers. I think pulling the lower one back 192*n cells does the trick. This sends a glider back: (EDIT: Not adjustable due to crystal decay) x = 320, y = 479, rule = B3/S23 318bo$317bobo2$316bo2bo$316b2o$316bo9$311bo$311b2o456$12b4o$11bo$11bo$ 9b2o3$o$2o! This one ...

"Double Barreled" form of that single queen bee gun. The gliders normally produce a pi that kills the engine but can be eaten satisfyingly with an eater2: x = 35, y = 34, rule = B3/S23 11bo12bo$11b3o8b3o$8bo5bo6bo5bo$8b6obo4bob6o$13bobo4bobo$8b2obo3b2o2b 2o2bo2b2o$8b2o4bo6b2o2bobo$10b2o2bo6bobo$2b2o...

Actually that doesn't seem that out of the question. One could just use a similar approach to the unsynthesizable p2 agar, but with a p2 c/2 spaceship instead. It'd be much harder to stabilize, though, and still a bit of a longshot. I don't even know of any reasonably small c/2 agars.

G+blink+blink leaves a quadpole in its wake:

I noticed that a very similar engine exists with the B+spark interacting with a MWSS instead: #C [[ STOP 12 ]] x = 13, y = 8, rule = B3/S23 9b3o$9bo2bo$3o5bo3bo$o2bo4b4o$o7b2o$o3bo$o$bobo! two puffers made out of it: x = 69, y = 20, rule = B3/S23 11b3o5bo38bo$10bo2bo4b3o36b3o$2b3o5b2obo3b2obo35b2o2b...

WHAT?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (P12 glider rake) The minimal form was identified by iNoMed: x = 20, y = 6, rule = B3/S23 9bo7bo$b3o4b3o5b3o$o2bo3bo2b2o4bob2o$3bo3bo3bo5b3o$3bo4b2o2bo4b2o$obo 8bo! It's 39 cells in its smallest form, which sets a pretty good record....

The pattern on the left side of the Belarus flag is a 23x61 Life pattern that turns into some junk with no gliders in 108 generations: x = 23, y = 61, rule = B3/S23 4o3b4ob4o3b4o$b2o5b3ob3o5b2o$2o3bo3b5o3bo3b2o$o3b3o3b3o3b3o3bo$3b2ob2o 3bo3b2ob2o$o3b3o3b3o3b3o3bo$2o3bo3b5o3bo3b2o$b2o5b3ob3o5b2o$4o3b...

That's a really cool period multiplier, but I don't think much could be improved from the already-existing APGsembly. I also don't think it'd be that great to have competing standards in such a small space, unless the new standard has many clear advantages over the old.

I guess I should put in a good word about the copy I received on April 4th. Pictures can be viewed here and here (unless Discord is blocked). The print quality is good and the colours are true to how they appear on the PDF. The lighting in my room isn't great so the images might be misleading in tha...

anyone know a weld that can work? x = 34, y = 26, rule = B3/S23 2o$bo28b2o$bobo26bo$2b2o24bobo$28b2o$32b2o$18b3o11bo$2b2o14b3o9bobo$b obo13bobo10b2o$bo15b2o$2o$4b2o$3bo2bo$4bobo$5bo$b2o$b2o$10b2o$9bobo$9b o$8b2o4b2o10b2o$14b2o6bo3b2o$21bobo$20bobo$20bo$19b2o! Not a catalyst expert, but here's a p2 ...

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NFTs will never go away but they've failed to catch on in the way evangelists hoped they would, and the audience is stagnating.

*(excluding 17-glider reverse caber tosser which has a predecessor of no more than 17*5=85 cells) I don't even think you need to go that far. A plain old BLSE/GPSE only works in CGoL. The lowest clean "phase" without non-interacting ash of a BLSE is 35 cells: x = 21, y = 28, rule = B3/S23 4b2o$4b2o...

The step size will give you a progress indication (it will gradually decrease until reaching 0), at which point the script will terminate so that you can run the final part yourself. This took my PC about 4 hours. I saved the pattern after the script runs for anybody who wants to see what the end l...

Could anyone on Windows who runs this script please try the following. My installation of Windows doesn't seem to have editbin. Is there any other way I can increase the stack size? I'm doing this from CMD, I tried PowerShell but it still couldn't find editbin. EDIT: Installed Visual Studio and now...