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Suggested fix: undo for the first linked edit (page Butterfly hasslers ); clarify relevance for second edit (page Silver's p5 ). Question for hassler-builders and other terminology experts: is there more or less of a consensus that to be a "hassler" of Object X, a pattern has to have hassling objec...

This is deliberate. If there is an error in the bounded grid definition and it's carried across to the safe rule then the pattern still won't open. What do you think of the two-stage approach? Try opening the safe rule with the bounded-grid suffix, and then if that doesn't work, try the safe rule w...

Maybe instead add a status bar message along the lines "Unknown rule; the pattern is converted to a default 256-state rule; go to View -> Pattern Info to get the original rulestring". Yup, something along those lines seems like the important info to put in the status bar. It might not be necessary,...

[*] (a) these lines clutter pattern comments. The more is added, the harder it is to understand what is going on. The instructions belong to help system. The idea of cluttering pattern comments with extra added lines was originally yours , not mine. Once the script is adding a new comment line anyw...

Just noticed that the "safeheader" definition in the current script doesn't preserve the bounded-grid suffix from the original rule, if there is one. Any thoughts on appending the bounded-grid suffix, if any, to the "Display256" safe rule? Are there situations where the bounded grid will work for so...

In the commit you linked to, the script does not do what I suggested, but instead attempts to do the reverse. It keeps the three-line extra advice enabled, unless the script can detect some kind of unsupported character. This kind of detection cannot be done in a satisfactory way, because there wil...

It is useful to be able to view and copy the actual rulename/rulestring that was specified in the pasted pattern snippet. So, for example, a single-line message of the following form is useful for a human Golly user: #C Golly converted unsupported rule: R5,C0,S33-57,B34-45,NMHistory That line is st...

it says catagolue instead of catalogue. glad to be the first one to point out this typo. ... Heh, you're a long way from being the first. It's a rather subtle in-joke that often just escapes people's notice for a long time, just like a lot of people can read right past badly jumbled word centers as...

If the resulting script happens to have some complicated logic to make it hard to test comprehensively, well, no big deal, but it is something to keep in mind. The added code is quite minimal -- it just generates the three extra comment lines that are quoted above. And now it seems to do it correct...

Another usability issue is that "action=raw" should probably be changed to "action=edit". In your example, following the link index.php?title=Rule:TriRep&action=raw causes my web browser to download and save a file named 'index.php'. (I know there must be a way to fix that somehow somewhere. But on...

Would there be a way to distinguish between cases when the specified string after "rule =" might plausibly be a filename for a ruletree/ruletable, versus cases when it is most likely a rulestring notation, and then show the additional advice only in the former case but not in latter case? Or just a...

Suggestion: when the rule is changed from what was specified in the RLE, add the old rulename/rulestring in an additional autogenerated pattern comment line. Done . Thanks for the suggestion! This brought up another long-term Golly user-unfriendliness that's easy to improve on now, with this same s...

One other interesting (but not necessarily useful; see above) possibility is to convert instead from StateInvestigator to LifeHistory. Convert 0 to 0 and 1 to 1. Convert every "is treated as ON" cellstate >= 2 into "marked ON". Convert every "is treated as OFF" cellstate >= 2 into "marked OFF". For...

Tangential: is there a way to tell which not-yet-assigned keyboard shortcuts are most likely / least likely to be used at some point in some future release? (For example I have Alt+P assigned for oscar.lua, but others might have different shortcuts/no shortcut, and developers might decide to use Al...

Question for StateInvestigator / LifeInvestigator users: what is the most useful conversion behavior for a [Rule]Investigator pattern? We currently have Alt/Option G, H, J mapped to scripts that convert to [R]Super, [R]History, and [R]Standard, respectively -- plus Alt/Option K going to the rule-agn...

How do you explain this? It is stable (unlike 6 bits) and extensible (unlike SKOP 134). I think that it is a loop, temporially at least. The Jubjub reflector being stable doesn't say anything at all about whether a Jubjub shuttle is a hassler or not. There must be many dozens if not hundreds of has...

Is there an oscillator with a rotor size of 1? No. A rotor size of 1 must a a p2 because there are only 2^1=2 possible states. Because the birth conditions are a subset of the survival conditions, a cell that turns on will stay on the next generation. Yup, that's the implication of the summary in t...

BF20H with nice connectability: x = 18, y = 25, rule = LifeHistory 7.2B2.2B$6.E7BD$4.3BE6BDBD$3.4B2E5B3DB$.5B2E8BD$.5BE8B$.7B.4B$.6B.4B$ 2.4B.4B$2.8B$.8B$8B$B2C5B$.2C5B4.2C$2.7B2.C2.C$2.4BC2B2.C.2C$2.3BCBC 2B2C$3.2BCBC2B2.3C$4.2BC3B2C2.C$6.3B2.C$8.2BC$7.BC2.3C$8.3C3.C$11.C.C $10.2C.2C! Very nice fi...

That makes for an awesome first post -- welcome to the forums! Might have to try a glider-to-Cordership converter rebuild now -- though there's still the problem of two of those gliders being retrograde ones, coming in down the middle of the Cordership's exit lane and making the repeat time worse. I...

The difference is that in the p42 oscillator shown on the page , the phase containing wings doesn't contain any other parts of the hassled reaction. In particular, that phase doesn't contain temporary loaves (which appear at different time)... Oops, sorry -- that was a very unlikely coincidence! I'...

https://conwaylife.com/w/index.php?diff=147530&oldid=147518 https://conwaylife.com/w/index.php?diff=147348&oldid=146004 In 68P16, the hassled reaction consists (at some point) of four blocks and four wings. It never consists of "wings and nothing else". So this oscillator is not a wing hassler, and...

Very nice find! A Herschel-plus-one-tick seems to substitute very nicely for a pi input, as long as there's a glider to back it up. The Herschel+glider is better because it performs a double-push -- i.e. a Herschel+glider is equivalent to a pair of pies. Darn, I didn't say that clearly -- I missed ...

Here is a way to inject a 2c/3 signal with a repeat time of 61... Very nice find! A Herschel-plus-one-tick seems to substitute very nicely for a pi input, as long as there's a glider to back it up. It even looks like there are about 20 ticks to spare, if it somehow became possible to deliver those ...

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March 18th, 2024, 4:19 pm

Do you see the "Edit2" at the end of my post ?

Edit2: It works fine here...

Scroll down and have a look in the bottom of your code block. There's a little problem with the closing code tag, which means the whole rest of the post is getting treated as code.

I believe there's a misunderstanding here, and that what Haycat is trying to say is that "the majority of SKOPs with prime period are rectifier loops". Thanks -- that's the perspective I was looking for, and for some reason couldn't find! I've added a separate sentence at the bottom of the section ...