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by flipper77
February 20th, 2015, 6:41 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: apgsearch v1.0
Replies: 376
Views: 289207

Re: apgsearch v1.0

Congratulations on your work Adam, I'm going to enjoy going through the objects page, as well as the census page, which is where I plan on wandering around a bit when I feel like it. I can't wait to see what kind of objects appear in the different censuses as time progresses. I'm just really glad th...
by flipper77
February 20th, 2015, 7:31 am
Forum: Patterns
Topic: Soup search results
Replies: 2588
Views: 1892366

Re: Soup search results

calcyman wrote:Is this Herschel + rubbish --> xs18_gbbgn96z11 + glider known?
I don't know, but here's another way to generate said object:

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#C [[ AUTOSTART GPS 10 ZOOM 7 HEIGHT 360 WIDTH 480 LOOP 120 THEME 0 ]]
x = 22, y = 33, rule = B3/S23
20bo$19bo$19b3o16$16bo$16b3o$16bobo$18bo8$bo$obo$obo$bo!
by flipper77
February 19th, 2015, 9:00 am
Forum: Scripts
Topic: Golly scripts
Replies: 312
Views: 296889

Re: Golly scripts

For those who like to find certain apgsearch objects with a certain symmetry, here's a script that does that: import golly as g import os def check(string): symmetries = {"C1": [], "C2": ["1", "2", "4"], "C4": ["1", "4"], "D2": ["+1", "+2", "x"], "D4": ["+1", "+2", "+4", "x1", "x4"], "D8": ["1", "4"...
by flipper77
February 16th, 2015, 4:18 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Project Alias
Replies: 30
Views: 28490

Re: Project Alias

codeholic wrote:Hammerhead!
Unfortunately, there's a spaceship with that name already.
by flipper77
February 16th, 2015, 3:39 am
Forum: Scripts
Topic: Golly scripts
Replies: 312
Views: 296889

Re: Golly scripts

I've modified the change-state.py script by Andrew found in Golly's online database to make another version that runs very fast for sparse patterns: # Change all cells from one given state to another given state. # Works in any rule with more than 2 states. # Author: Andrew Trevorrow (andrew@trevorr...
by flipper77
February 9th, 2015, 3:46 am
Forum: Patterns
Topic: The Hunting of the New Herschel Conduits
Replies: 1305
Views: 1064122

Re: The Hunting of the New Herschel Conduits

By the way, do we have a stable conduit that does something like this yet? I've seen oscillating conduits that do this, but not stable ones. Well, there's this conduit from sawtooth6b included with Golly, but you probably meant other ones, right? x = 16, y = 22, rule = B3/S23 b3o$bo$3o7$14b2o$14b2o...
by flipper77
February 4th, 2015, 11:37 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: apgsearch: a high-performance soup searcher
Replies: 147
Views: 138153

Re: apgsearch: a high-performance soup searcher

I have a question: once you get your script running, how can you find what are the resulting interesting patterns? Yes, I have tried "s", but it only shows what it found, not how... Also, how to create mirrored patterns? To find how apgsearch found a particular object, you must click one of the sou...
by flipper77
January 31st, 2015, 4:34 am
Forum: Patterns
Topic: Soup search results
Replies: 2588
Views: 1892366

Re: Soup search results

Extrementhusiast wrote:Large soup NOT from the search still produces a fairly rare 15-bit SL:

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I've had <100 reports of this object, and this predecessor seems likely to work for a synthesis:

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x = 9, y = 10, rule = B3/S23
6b2o$5bo2bo$6b2o$bo$ob2o$ob2o$b2o$6bo$4b3o$4bo!
by flipper77
January 27th, 2015, 12:02 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: apgsearch: a high-performance soup searcher
Replies: 147
Views: 138153

Re: apgsearch: a high-performance soup searcher

Were there situations where you needed the census organized? I think it's a tidy idea to organize the census, but I'm just curious whether the idea came from necessity. The sorting of the soup numbers was only to make it a bit more orderly, and isn't technically needed, but it bothered me to see so...
by flipper77
January 27th, 2015, 10:01 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: apgsearch: a high-performance soup searcher
Replies: 147
Views: 138153

Re: apgsearch: a high-performance soup searcher

By census, do you mean the report text file or the rle pattern of found objects? I think it is the former, but just checking. Actually, I mean the objects found by apgsearch, because some objects in symmetrical soups aren't going to appear in others, but I like how the text files are handled. I am ...
by flipper77
January 27th, 2015, 8:19 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: apgsearch: a high-performance soup searcher
Replies: 147
Views: 138153

Re: apgsearch: a high-performance soup searcher

For soups where the same object appears multiple times, especially in symmetric soups, the same soup number appears in the sample occurrences, so you while you may get 10 sample soups, they may not be necessarily unique, and this can get particularly annoying, especially with D8_1 or D8_4 symmetry, ...
by flipper77
January 9th, 2015, 10:35 pm
Forum: Patterns
Topic: Soup search results
Replies: 2588
Views: 1892366

Re: Soup search results

Thanks to flipper77's new symmetry options, new things with new symmetry comes along. I'm very glad when people run other symmetries because I'm very sure there's still some new things out there just waiting to be discovered that have remained elusive for now. and finally a p78*2 gun. x = 32, y = 3...
by flipper77
January 8th, 2015, 1:48 pm
Forum: Patterns
Topic: Soup search results
Replies: 2588
Views: 1892366

Re: Soup search results

The second pattern is already known as snake dance.
by flipper77
January 6th, 2015, 6:46 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: apgsearch: a high-performance soup searcher
Replies: 147
Views: 138153

Re: apgsearch: a high-performance soup searcher

Another thing I want to talk about, is sub-folders within each rule folder, and when you use a new symmetry for that particular rule, apgsearch generates a new folder named whatever symmetry you enter. Is this a good idea, or is there a better way to deal with different symmetry settings?
by flipper77
January 5th, 2015, 4:56 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: apgsearch: a high-performance soup searcher
Replies: 147
Views: 138153

Re: apgsearch: a high-performance soup searcher

I noticed that apgsearch imports the rect() and pattern() functions, but I haven't found a single use of either function in the code, did I miss something, or is it old code that isn't used anymore.
by flipper77
January 3rd, 2015, 3:33 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: apgsearch: a high-performance soup searcher
Replies: 147
Views: 138153

Re: apgsearch: a high-performance soup searcher

Here's the latest unnofficial version of apgsearch with symmetries(uses D_2n instead of D_n): apgsearch-v0.54.zip The way the hashsoup() function works is that it's passed a symmetry string like the previous version I uploaded before, but apgsearch asks you for one of these symmetry options: C1 C2_1...
by flipper77
December 31st, 2014, 2:06 am
Forum: Bugs & Errors
Topic: golly.getselrect() - bug or feature?
Replies: 2
Views: 4367

Re: golly.getselrect() - bug or feature?

Strange, when I call g.getrect(), I get the appropriate bounding box, and when I call g.getselrect(), I get the proper selection. I'm running 64-bit version of Golly 2.6 on 64-bit Windows 7 computer. Here is very straightforward test script: import golly as g r = g.getrect() sr = g.getselrect() g.sh...
by flipper77
December 29th, 2014, 7:28 pm
Forum: Other Cellular Automata
Topic: A pattern in Duality with unusual growth
Replies: 6
Views: 4224

Re: A pattern in Duality with unusual growth

Can you post the rule table? Here is the rule table updated from old format: @RULE Duality @TABLE n_states:3 neighborhood:Moore symmetries:permute var a={0,1,2} var b={0,1,2} var c={0,1,2} var d={0,1,2} var e={0,1,2} var f={0,1,2} var g={0,1,2} var h={0,1,2} # Birth 0,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,1 0,2,2,0,0,0,...
by flipper77
December 28th, 2014, 1:09 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Why I Fail at Making Discoveries
Replies: 32
Views: 16322

Re: Why I Fail at Making Discoveries

GoL has been around for decades, all the good stuff you can get with a laptop and limited programming abilities has already been taken. Well, I wouldn't necessarily say that. I used to think I'd never find anything that would be even remotely significant for years until I decided to run symmetrical...
by flipper77
December 28th, 2014, 5:52 am
Forum: Patterns
Topic: Pufferfish and companions
Replies: 24
Views: 27427

Re: Pufferfish and companions

Congrats on your finds, they're quite interesting, as well as your use of the new fuse. I'll check for symmetrical-type fuses, and I'll hopefully come up with something, since I haven't had much use to run apgsearch in the last few days.
by flipper77
December 22nd, 2014, 1:46 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: apgsearch: a high-performance soup searcher
Replies: 147
Views: 138153

Re: apgsearch: a high-performance soup searcher

where the first symbol gives the group, the words 'orthogonal' and 'diagonal' refer to the directions of any lines of symmetry, and the words in parentheses give the parities of any dimensions constrained by the symmetry. In particular, it looks like you don't distinguish between the two D4 diagona...
by flipper77
December 21st, 2014, 2:29 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: apgsearch: a high-performance soup searcher
Replies: 147
Views: 138153

Re: apgsearch: a high-performance soup searcher

That seems to suggest that p29 pre-pulsar shuttles are as common as bipoles (certainly not the case!). The scores should be based upon natural frequency in asymmetric soups. No modification is required for symmetric soups, since (for example) if a mold appears in a soup with D8 symmetry, it appears...
by flipper77
December 21st, 2014, 2:30 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: apgsearch: a high-performance soup searcher
Replies: 147
Views: 138153

Re: apgsearch: a high-performance soup searcher

Lately, I've been doing lots and lots of symmetrical soup searches, and I've been getting some decent results with my customized version of apgsearch, most modifications are there to incorporate specific symmetries that you input after rule selection. I'll do my best to give a decent description of ...
by flipper77
December 20th, 2014, 1:57 pm
Forum: Patterns
Topic: Soup search results
Replies: 2588
Views: 1892366

Re: Soup search results

Produces a rare-ish p4: x = 31, y = 31, rule = B3/S23 o2b3obo5b5o5bob3o2bo$2b2o2b4o2b7o2b4o2b2o$bo2bo2bo3bo3bo3bo3bo2bo2bo$ 2o4b3o4b2ob2o4b3o4b2o$obobob2o7bo7b2obobobo$o8bob2obobob2obo8bo$bob2o 3b2o11b2o3b2obo$5o3b2ob9ob2o3b5o$bobo2b5ob2obob2ob5o2bobo$bo3b4ob4o3b 4ob4o3bo$8b3o2b2ob2o2b3o$2bo2bobobob...
by flipper77
December 20th, 2014, 12:59 am
Forum: Patterns
Topic: Soup search results
Replies: 2588
Views: 1892366

Re: Soup search results

I'm not sure if it's okay... but did a little soup search(20M) with even 4-fold symmetry last night... I don't know why you'd think that's a bad thing, because I really enjoy symmetrical soup searches, you can find some very interesting results that usually won't show up in standard soups. Anyways,...