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by Sokwe
April 10th, 2024, 7:55 pm
Forum: Patterns
Topic: Spaceship Discussion Thread
Replies: 3149
Views: 1147658

Re: Spaceship Discussion Thread

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...
by Sokwe
April 10th, 2024, 8:21 am
Forum: Patterns
Topic: Pattern Of The Year 2023 Nominations
Replies: 55
Views: 6709

Re: Pattern Of The Year 2023 Nominations

Sokwe wrote:
February 12th, 2024, 8:36 pm
We also need some summary posts for some of the other group entries, such as engineered diehards and synthesis reductions.
Can someone write these? I don't have enough knowledge of those discoveries to do it myself.
by Sokwe
April 10th, 2024, 7:34 am
Forum: Patterns
Topic: Spaceship Discussion Thread
Replies: 3149
Views: 1147658

Re: Spaceship Discussion Thread

> All that's left is to reflect and position the output glider stream so that it becomes the input stream That was a bit fiddly, but here it is. #C A diagonal c/4 period 1160 engineless puffer. ... Awesome! I just finished getting the chainable advancers to work at p632 while still allowing a glide...
by Sokwe
April 10th, 2024, 4:05 am
Forum: Patterns
Topic: Spaceship Discussion Thread
Replies: 3149
Views: 1147658

Re: Spaceship Discussion Thread

What is the lowest period "engineless" rake that we can build? We should be able to get around p1000 using the following idea (shown at p1160). All that's left is to reflect and position the output glider stream so that it becomes the input stream: x = 1047, y = 2090, rule = B3/S23 1045bo$1044bo$104...
by Sokwe
April 10th, 2024, 3:57 am
Forum: Scripts
Topic: GliderDB Reader
Replies: 7
Views: 215

Re: GliderDB Reader

I've finally gotten around to updating the GliderDB reader and the new link is here https://gliderdb-reader.vercel.app/ . The code can be found at https://github.com/jedlimlx/gliderdb-reader . Here's a bug: it seems that you are still required to input a valid velocity, even when the "Ignore Veloci...
by Sokwe
April 9th, 2024, 9:20 pm
Forum: Patterns
Topic: amling questionable searches/ideas firehose
Replies: 274
Views: 23992

Re: amling questionable searches/ideas firehose

I'm more a "make a giant, messy solution" sort of guy or maybe occasionally a "optimize one direction of clearance at the extreme expense of every other metric" sort of guy. What are you hoping to use a "reduce"d version of this in? I could try to optimize the NW clearance similar to the other spar...
by Sokwe
April 9th, 2024, 5:35 pm
Forum: Patterns
Topic: Spaceship Discussion Thread
Replies: 3149
Views: 1147658

Re: Spaceship Discussion Thread

As David Bell has been mentioning, a fast-repeat-time advancer could presumably give much lower periods: x = 533, y = 554, rule = B3/S23 374b2o$374bobo$367b2o5bo$367bobo3b2o2bo$367bo11bo$370bo3b2o3b3o$370b2o 4b2o4bo$376b7o$377b4o$384bo$383b4o24bo$387bo22b2o$382b6o22bobo$376b3o 3bob2o$376bo5bobo28b2o...
by Sokwe
April 9th, 2024, 4:59 pm
Forum: Patterns
Topic: Spaceship Discussion Thread
Replies: 3149
Views: 1147658

Re: Spaceship Discussion Thread

Some very preliminary searching can turn it e.g. at that first NW branch: x = 27, y = 42, rule = B3/S23 11b3o$11bo$2bo11bo$b2o8bo4bo$bobo8b3o$9bo6bobo$4b2o2bob2o6bo$5bo2bo2bo 7bo$4bobo13bo$3bo4bo2bo8bobo$3bo3b2o$3b5o3bo10b2o$4b3obo4bo9bo2bo$5bob ob2ob3o$4bo2bobob4o7b2o2bo$4bo17bo$4bo3bo$b2o3bobob2o...
by Sokwe
April 9th, 2024, 8:18 am
Forum: The Sandbox
Topic: Famous Quotes
Replies: 419
Views: 159326

Re: Famous Quotes

New rules: No posts that could possibly be viewed as negative. No making fun of other users. No quoting users with account ages less than 6 months.

The reason for the last rule is to avoid scaring off new users with unexplained attention to their posts.
by Sokwe
April 8th, 2024, 10:49 pm
Forum: Patterns
Topic: Spaceship Discussion Thread
Replies: 3149
Views: 1147658

Re: Spaceship Discussion Thread

I removed some of the glider redirection convoys, and so reduced the period of the diagonal c/4 puffers. As a fun exercise, I found a complicated cleanup convoy that works regardless of the period mod 16. Here is the resulting clean p3532+4N rake: #C c/4 diagonal p3532+4N rake #C #C To increase the...
by Sokwe
April 8th, 2024, 6:45 am
Forum: LifeWiki Discussion
Topic: Suggested LifeWiki edits
Replies: 923
Views: 181041

Re: Suggested LifeWiki edits

I created a pre-pulsar hasslers page for pre-pulsar hasslers that aren't shuttles. Can someone please add the following oscillators to that page: x = 289, y = 307, rule = B3/S23 104bo$103bobo$102bobobo$102bobobo$101b2obob2o$99bo2bobobo2bo$99b2o3bo 3b2o$102bobobo$97b5o2bo2b5o$96bo5bobobo5bo$95bobo3b2...
by Sokwe
April 8th, 2024, 3:16 am
Forum: Patterns
Topic: Spaceship Discussion Thread
Replies: 3149
Views: 1147658

Re: Spaceship Discussion Thread

This appears to be the basis of a fully configurable diagonal c/4 puffer. Excellent! Here is a refinement to more clearly demonstrate this mechanism: #N c/4 diagonal p4388+4N dirty rake #C To decrease the period by 4N, move #C box A diagonally southeast 2N cells. #C To increase the period by 16N, m...
by Sokwe
April 7th, 2024, 7:35 am
Forum: Scripts
Topic: Thread for your script-related questions
Replies: 371
Views: 108198

Re: Thread for your script-related questions

when using synthesise-patt.py inside golly, how do I show all results and not only one? The version of synthesise-patt.py from here seems to work fine for me. I tested it on the R-pentomino and got 267 results. The pattern was zoomed in on the first synthesis, but I could simply zoom out to see the...
by Sokwe
April 6th, 2024, 7:50 pm
Forum: Patterns
Topic: Faster 2c/3 Wires
Replies: 58
Views: 6367

Re: Faster 2c/3 Wires

Here's a result I found, I don't know it this could be cheaper to rebuild than the pond and biblock?... Edit: Oh, you can turn the emitter around, that looks more promising: x = 46, y = 43, rule = LifeHistory 28.2A11.2A$28.2A2.3A.3A2.2A$32.A5.A3$26.A.A5.A.A5.A.A$26.2A.A3.2A.2A 3.A.2A$29.A3.2A.2A3.A...
by Sokwe
April 5th, 2024, 2:15 am
Forum: Patterns
Topic: Spaceship Discussion Thread
Replies: 3149
Views: 1147658

Re: Spaceship Discussion Thread

It's a bit disappointing that it is so large and slow. Having to pull those loafs out from the fuse wastes space and especially time. Cleaning up the debris would make it even larger. I was hoping to beat the old adjustable puffer with its 4508 period, but this doesn't do it. At least it gives a ne...
by Sokwe
April 4th, 2024, 8:54 pm
Forum: Patterns
Topic: Spaceship Discussion Thread
Replies: 3149
Views: 1147658

Re: Spaceship Discussion Thread

I think this is the basis of a simple variable period diagonal c/4 puffer. This is essentially the basis for your original p4508+32N rake (version in link is period 6108). I'm wondering if there is a way to perform the reignition much faster than p4508. Much of the time in the original is taken by ...
by Sokwe
April 4th, 2024, 4:53 am
Forum: Patterns
Topic: LLSSS min pop search results spam
Replies: 72
Views: 6437

Re: LLSSS min pop search results spam

2c/5 even searches completed for pop 60 in all five phases: max memory 97.8 GB, total time ~26.5h. Found only doubles of 30P5H2V0. Thanks! Interesting (?) that it took so much less time than the pop 57 odd-symmetric search. Was this the last spaceship min pop search you had in your queue? the weigh...
by Sokwe
April 3rd, 2024, 3:27 am
Forum: Patterns
Topic: Oscillator Discussion Thread
Replies: 4544
Views: 1700311

Re: Oscillator Discussion Thread

p33 traffic light hassler by Nico Brown x = 58, y = 44, rule = B3/S23 22b2o4bo$22b2o3bobo$24bo3bo2$21bo2bo4$16bo$15b3ob2o4bo$11bo8b2o2bobo$ 4bo5b3o3b2ob2o3bo$5bo3b2ob2o3b3o5bo$3bobo2b2o8bo19bo$4bo4b2ob3o21b3o$ 13bo21bo$35b2o3$5bo2bo$32b3o15b2o4bo$bo3bo17b3o6bobo15b2o3bobo$obo3b2o 15bobo6b3o17bo3bo$...
by Sokwe
April 2nd, 2024, 4:02 pm
Forum: Patterns
Topic: Thread for your unsure discoveries
Replies: 3263
Views: 1497807

Re: Thread for your unsure discoveries

p28 wick based on the two pond and two block reaction The earliest mention I could find of this wick is here , where I attributed it to Jason Summers. However, I can't find any mention of the wick by Summers. It was first stabilized by Scorbie here using the p14 bi-block hassler . The 34P14 shuttle...
by Sokwe
April 2nd, 2024, 7:30 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Golly 4.3b1
Replies: 61
Views: 2486

Re: Golly 4.3b1

Please replace honey-farm-hasslers.rle with the following: #C The patterns in this collection hassle common predecessors of the #C honey farm constellation. There is an unusual proliferation of #C oscillators engineered this way due to the honey farm's high level #C of symmetry and the frequency wit...
by Sokwe
April 2nd, 2024, 2:07 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: What it is like to be a hassler?
Replies: 28
Views: 5710

Re: What it is like to be a hassler?

I recently requested that the capped p37 gun be added to the honey farm hasslers wiki page, but I now see that it, like the old p6 honey farm "hassler", is actually a mutual stabilizer. It seemed like we came to the conclusion a while back that such things aren't "true" hasslers. In the p37 case I c...
by Sokwe
April 1st, 2024, 9:42 pm
Forum: LifeWiki Discussion
Topic: Suggested LifeWiki edits
Replies: 923
Views: 181041

Re: Suggested LifeWiki edits

If the aim is to show the same set of oscillators to LifeWiki readers without need to install Golly, then a dedicated page may work. The aim is to "complete" the LifeWiki traffic light hassler collection. If we have pages for non-pre-pulsar traffic light hasslers and for pre-pulsar shuttles , then ...
by Sokwe
April 1st, 2024, 4:34 pm
Forum: Patterns
Topic: Oscillator Discussion Thread
Replies: 4544
Views: 1700311

Re: Oscillator Discussion Thread

(Portal to the Discord server, where Dvgrn queried about monomerising/extending the Honey ring) It's totally possible to "Quasar" the Honey ring to have 16+16n honey farms... There are also these closely related ways in which two copies of the engine can interact: x = 197, y = 36, rule = B3/S23 11b...
by Sokwe
April 1st, 2024, 7:13 am
Forum: LifeWiki Discussion
Topic: Suggested LifeWiki edits
Replies: 923
Views: 181041

Re: Suggested LifeWiki edits

There are pages for traffic light hasslers and pre-pulsar shuttles , but neither seems to include non-shuttle pre-pulsar hasslers. Should a pre-pulsar hasslers page be created? It could probably include the following oscillators: x = 337, y = 357, rule = B3/S23 104bo$103bobo$102bobobo$102bobobo$101b...
by Sokwe
March 31st, 2024, 3:15 am
Forum: Patterns
Topic: Oscillator Discussion Thread
Replies: 4544
Views: 1700311

Re: Oscillator Discussion Thread

C_R_116 wrote:
March 31st, 2024, 2:51 am
Odd p34 pre-pulsar hassler
Nice! Can you give more details on how it was found?