With pslmake, it's now 40 545 gliders, which will translate to around 300 000 ECCA bits.
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- July 20th, 2023, 12:44 pm
- Forum: Patterns
- Topic: Spacefiller Recipe Working Thread
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Re: Spacefiller Recipe Working Thread
- July 20th, 2023, 12:00 pm
- Forum: Patterns
- Topic: (Engineered) diehards
- Replies: 316
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Re: (Engineered) diehards
Delaying the firing of that fuse some more... Awesome -- the number of loaves is now given by: int('267881' + '450881' * 145 + '5' * 39 + '33', 11) or, in full: 214940730287142226345105719085584160070647327962304744198429820501931155412580826644904293261015795132425135677168908191556568784358911498...
- July 20th, 2023, 8:11 am
- Forum: Patterns
- Topic: (Engineered) diehards
- Replies: 316
- Views: 48332
Re: (Engineered) diehards
This variant fits (bounding box 109x91=9919): x = 109, y = 91, rule = LifeSuper 18.8Q20.12Q4.5Q2.Q15.2M15.Q$19.Q4.Q22.Q3.2Q8.2Q.Q.4Q.Q13.2M8.2Q5.Q$ 41.2M4.Q4.2Q9.4Q27.Q2.Q4.Q$42.M4.2Q46.2Q8.2Q$42.M.M8.Q3.M24.2M21.Q.Q$ 43.2M3.Q.2Q.Q2.M25.2M22.Q$48.2Q6.3M3.2M$37.3O8.2Q12.2M21.2M8.M$28.2Q 6.3O46.2M6.3...
- July 19th, 2023, 1:31 pm
- Forum: Patterns
- Topic: (Engineered) diehards
- Replies: 316
- Views: 48332
Re: (Engineered) diehards
49_107_024_580_269_359_102_709_988_500_794_315_776_818_460_186_053_483 (5x10^52) loaves: (EDIT: fixed issue) Awesome! Here's another factor of 121, for 5941949974212592451427908608596112208995033682512474383 (6e54) loaves, by making your fishhook more complicated: x = 109, y = 91, rule = LifeSuper ...
- July 19th, 2023, 7:12 am
- Forum: Patterns
- Topic: (Engineered) diehards
- Replies: 316
- Views: 48332
Re: (Engineered) diehards
Alright, now we have 633,254,105,373,391,511,862,848,046,372 (6.33*10^29) loaves: Oh nice! You can replace that longboat with a longship and discard the aircraft carrier, leaving room for a few more SLs, thereby giving us 9 more factors of 121. Now 3520840464305553402470768296530766292673698139673 ...
- July 19th, 2023, 1:01 am
- Forum: Patterns
- Topic: (Engineered) diehards
- Replies: 316
- Views: 48332
Re: (Engineered) diehards
Wow. Here's 5,233,505,003,085,880,263,329,322,673: Impressive! In base 11, you've increased it from 420375573925555555555555533 to 443375578925555555555555533. (It seems that small changes to the pattern cause the base-11 representation of the number of loaves to change by a small Levenshtein dista...
- July 18th, 2023, 4:34 pm
- Forum: Patterns
- Topic: (Engineered) diehards
- Replies: 316
- Views: 48332
Re: (Engineered) diehards
Another three factors of 121 bring us to 340_636_681_810_744_035_141_043 loaves: Another two factors of 121 bring us to 4_987_261_658_391_103_418_500_369_243 loaves: x = 111, y = 90, rule = LifeSuper 21.6Q23.8Q.Q$19.10Q21.2Q.Q.Q4.3Q24.2M15.Q$21.2Q2.2Q26.Q3.2Q28.2M8.2Q 5.Q$43.2M13.2Q2.Q33.Q2.Q4.Q$44...
- July 18th, 2023, 2:47 pm
- Forum: Patterns
- Topic: (Engineered) diehards
- Replies: 316
- Views: 48332
Re: (Engineered) diehards
Alternative solution: rewind guns 1 tick. Gives slightly larger loaf count, as c/5 ship interaction starts a little bit later. Should be 1_589_095_260_348_643 loaves, but I might've miscalculated. This one produces 192_280_526_502_188_743 loaves: Another three factors of 121 bring us to 340_636_681...
- July 18th, 2023, 2:16 pm
- Forum: Patterns
- Topic: (Engineered) diehards
- Replies: 316
- Views: 48332
Re: (Engineered) diehards
Alternative solution: rewind guns 1 tick. Gives slightly larger loaf count, as c/5 ship interaction starts a little bit later. Should be 1_589_095_260_348_643 loaves, but I might've miscalculated. This one produces 192_280_526_502_188_743 loaves: x = 111, y = 90, rule = LifeSuper 21.6Q23.8Q.Q$19.10...
- July 18th, 2023, 10:39 am
- Forum: Patterns
- Topic: (Engineered) diehards
- Replies: 316
- Views: 48332
Re: (Engineered) diehards
363 loaves, if I'm counting correctly: This should be 13131937954518 loaves, if I'm counting correctly, but there are a couple of issues: 1. The bounding box is 112x90, but that should hopefully be improvable using a SAT solver; 2. I had to delete two mint-green toads to get this to work; are these...
- July 18th, 2023, 9:10 am
- Forum: Patterns
- Topic: (Engineered) diehards
- Replies: 316
- Views: 48332
Re: (Engineered) diehards
Another 9 levels: Now 310 loaves: x = 111, y = 90, rule = LifeSuper 21.6Q23.8Q.Q$19.10Q21.2Q.Q.Q4.3Q24.2M$21.2Q2.2Q26.Q3.2Q28.2M8.2Q4.3Q$ 43.2M13.2Q2.Q33.Q2.Q$44.M12.Q39.2Q8.2Q$44.M.M6.M4.Q.Q.Q21.2M21.Q.Q$ 45.2M6.2M29.2M22.Q$40.O7.2M4.2M8.2M$38.O2.O6.2M4.3M7.2M21.2M8.M$30.2Q 6.O2.O6.2M4.2M31.2M6.3M...
- July 18th, 2023, 8:16 am
- Forum: Patterns
- Topic: (Engineered) diehards
- Replies: 316
- Views: 48332
Re: (Engineered) diehards
That's still 110x90. Did you mean to post this instead (with the crab moved SW by 1fd, and the copperhead moved south by 2 cells)? Yep. I guess I copied the wrong pattern. Fixed, thanks. Another 9 levels: x = 111, y = 90, rule = LifeSuper 7.W7.4Q2.6Q4.2A17.8Q.Q$4.W.3W8.12Q2.A.A16.2Q.Q.Q4.3Q24.2M$3....
- July 18th, 2023, 7:15 am
- Forum: Patterns
- Topic: (Engineered) diehards
- Replies: 316
- Views: 48332
Re: (Engineered) diehards
After reaching 110x90, we can expand one border 'for free', to 111x90, while still staying under 10000 limit. That allows for one more layer. x = 110, y = 90, rule = LifeSuper That's still 110x90. Did you mean to post this instead (with the crab moved SW by 1fd, and the copperhead moved south by 2 ...
- July 18th, 2023, 6:41 am
- Forum: Patterns
- Topic: (Engineered) diehards
- Replies: 316
- Views: 48332
Re: (Engineered) diehards
3 more layers thanks to EvinZL's idea: 10 more loaves (I don't know how that translates into layers): x = 110, y = 90, rule = LifeSuper 6.W7.4Q2.6Q23.8Q.Q$3.W.3W8.12Q21.2Q.Q.Q4.3Q24.2M$2.6W9.2Q5.2Q26.Q3.2Q 28.2M8.2Q4.3Q$2.3W.W14.Q20.2M13.2Q2.Q33.Q2.Q$3.W16.2Q21.M12.Q39.2Q8. 2Q$43.M.M6.M4.Q.Q.Q21.2M...
- July 17th, 2023, 9:37 am
- Forum: Patterns
- Topic: Binary slow salvos
- Replies: 258
- Views: 68911
Re: Binary slow salvos
I'm cognizant of the fact that there are only 2 complete weeks before the 'soft deadline for contributions' so this ideally needs doing as soon as possible. Is there any way in which I can help with this? May be a python? script converting 12 bit sequence to rle file would speedup the final results...
- July 15th, 2023, 2:13 am
- Forum: Patterns
- Topic: Binary slow salvos
- Replies: 258
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Re: Binary slow salvos
So first Risk_DBCA_m3_p4_fc_#cpo bit sequence recipe is finished. The DBCA is lounched by bit number 718736. (253 bits building [S0] + 718481 bits of recipe + 2 bits to start) Original recipe started the DBCA by bit number 1274729. So reduction of recipe length to 56.4% Would it be possible to run ...
- July 13th, 2023, 8:50 am
- Forum: Patterns
- Topic: Goucher-Grankovskiy construction arm
- Replies: 294
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Re: Goucher-Grankovskiy construction arm
It would be nice to try the white building sequence on it. I am not sure one piece of junk (3074) does not interfere with the construction. Yes, it works: x = 11850253, y = 11850506, rule = DoubleB3S23 279.2C$279.2C$265.C$265.3C12.C$268.C10.C.C$267.2C9.C2.C$277.C2.C$272. C$271.C.C3.C2.C$271.C2.C4.2...
- July 13th, 2023, 6:28 am
- Forum: Patterns
- Topic: Goucher-Grankovskiy construction arm
- Replies: 294
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Re: Goucher-Grankovskiy construction arm
I've solved the problem. The true glider 248 had somehow ended up being moved to glider 4168 for some bizarre reason. I've fixed it now; here's the montage pattern: Can you make it just B3/S23 and post both as separate pattern? DoubleB3S23 is meant for patterns that can fit on the screen, not for l...
- July 12th, 2023, 5:23 pm
- Forum: Patterns
- Topic: Goucher-Grankovskiy construction arm
- Replies: 294
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Re: Goucher-Grankovskiy construction arm
I just hope you interpret it well that each line is one emission with several options. Except the fully commented out lines. Yes, the script I posted does exactly that, taking the first of the options on each line. I've made a montage in DoubleB3S23 which shows the correct 4484-glider synthesis and...
- July 12th, 2023, 4:52 pm
- Forum: Patterns
- Topic: Goucher-Grankovskiy construction arm
- Replies: 294
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Re: Goucher-Grankovskiy construction arm
I just hope you interpret it well that each line is one emission with several options. Except the fully commented out lines. Yes, the script I posted does exactly that, taking the first of the options on each line. I've made a montage in DoubleB3S23 which shows the correct 4484-glider synthesis and...
- July 12th, 2023, 9:09 am
- Forum: Patterns
- Topic: Goucher-Grankovskiy construction arm
- Replies: 294
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Re: Goucher-Grankovskiy construction arm
And the level file: (g0%1)[366] (g0%1)[376] (g0%1)[373] (g1%2)[373] (g0%2)[372] (g1%2)[368] (g0%2)[363] (g0%1)[362] (g0%1)[351] (g0%1)[348](g0%1)[353] (g0%1)[346] (g0%1)[344] (g0%1)[339](g0%1)[340](g0%1)[343](g0%1)[350] (g0%1)[372] (g0%1)[378] (g0%1)[393] (g1%2)[392] (g0%2)[400](g0%2)[401](g1%2)[40...
- July 11th, 2023, 4:31 am
- Forum: Patterns
- Topic: Goucher-Grankovskiy construction arm
- Replies: 294
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Re: Goucher-Grankovskiy construction arm
Good job, I am in debugging phase, so agnosticise should wait… seems it’s my turn now on all fronts… I think there's no need to rush. I'll start working on rebuilding RCT with new DBCA and ECCA and new pslmake recipes for other things. FixedBottom arm could be substituted later, for now we have gre...
- July 10th, 2023, 3:51 pm
- Forum: Patterns
- Topic: Goucher-Grankovskiy construction arm
- Replies: 294
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Re: Goucher-Grankovskiy construction arm
In 3 minutes (on 12 threads with the --xl option), for example, pslmake was able to find this 69-glider synthesis of a Snark... Wow! When you think you've gotten the lowest cost in gliders that you can for a Snarkmaker -type Snark construction, I think it will probably finally be time to run a cust...
- July 10th, 2023, 12:27 pm
- Forum: Patterns
- Topic: Goucher-Grankovskiy construction arm
- Replies: 294
- Views: 38846
Re: Goucher-Grankovskiy construction arm
and I have working salvo of 6633 gliders building DBCA except the white portion (following target). It's 36% of the way through the construction so far, and it looks like the final synthesis will be somewhere between 4000 and 5000 gliders. 4484 gliders for the latest blueprint using pslmake. Defrag...
- July 9th, 2023, 12:08 pm
- Forum: Patterns
- Topic: Goucher-Grankovskiy construction arm
- Replies: 294
- Views: 38846
Re: Goucher-Grankovskiy construction arm
Thanks. I indeed missed some of the micro-optimisations, especially the ones requiring lane change. But at least these micro-optimisations are probably the most important ones in the RCT project, given that they make slow^2 gliders of the most expensive arm more efficient. Updated variant: Yes, the...