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Hold on, I realized nbsearch2 (which uses random soups instead of brute-force patterns) supports more symmetry, so here: Thanks for the oscillators! Where can I get nbsearch2? I couldn't find it searching the forums or online. It's buried in the Scripts request thread, here: https://conwaylife.com/...

How can I prevent JLS from outputting solutions with non-interacting cells? This is not something JLS is capable of doing automatically. The best you could do is manually divide the search and set cells in ways that either force an area off or cause it to interact with the existing partials. If you...

I have pushed an update to the 5S repo at http://github.com/apaap/sssss with python3 compatibility changes to the 5S scripts. This also includes the 2020 updates I've processed so far. I had been hoping to delay pushing the update until I'd caught up for the year, but considering how long it's taken...

I have pushed an update to the sssss GitHub repo which adds Py3 compatibility to sss.py and searchRule-matchPatt2.py

If anyone wants to use any of the other searchRule-*.py scripts in this thread with Golly v4 then let me know which ones and I'll try to get them updated too.

2c/5 discovered with ikpx2 on 11/30/2020 x = 23, y = 26, rule = B3/S23 19bo$17b4o$16bo3bo$16b3o$14bo2bo$14bobo2b2o$17bob2o$13b2ob2o2bo$ 12b3o5b3o$12b2o2bobo$11b3o2bo$11b3o2b2o2bobo$13bob3o3bo$14bobo$11b 2ob2o$12b3o$9b2obo$9bo$7b3o$2bo4bobo$bobo2b2ob3o$o3bo5b2o$bob2o6bo $2b2o6bo$2b2o$2bo! Wow! Upon ...

Here is an updated version of my SOF canonisation script for Golly Python. It can now canonise all periodic patterns according to the requirements on http://pentadecathlon.com/objects/definitions/definitions.php and is Py2/Py3 compatible. This script has had a bit more testing than the previous vers...

They aren't really faster, in that they would be faster if the Moore neighbourhood treated orthogonal and diagonal neighbours differently in this part, but it only treats them differently in those other parts. Diagonal and orthogonal neighbours are different though - primarily because a diagonal ne...

Or are you trying to put in a rule table? In this case you should just paste it "into" the layer, i.e. the same as pasting a pattern. Yes, pasting it in worked perfectly. Thank you. Great. Btw, you can find the folder where rule table files are stored by going to Preferences (',') -> Control Use th...

I'd say just keep playing around with it in Golly until you find something you're satisfied with. I just downloaded Golly and cannot put my rule in. When I try, a window tells me that spaces are not allowed in rule strings. What is the rule that you are trying to put in? Please post the complete st...

Edit: Update script for Py2/Py3 compatibility. Fixed a bug in sof_compare() which caused errors for symmetric patterns (and in some other cases). In some cases there may have been incorrect output (but I don't know of any examples). Attempting to use the script on Cthulhu still gave this error: Tha...

Furthermore, you'll get much better tech support on average if you stop giving vague descriptions that could mean a lot of different things, and start taking the time to explain exactly what you're doing, in a way that keeps other people from having to try to read your mind. I put the path into the...

Question for the Experts By the way -- I can't seem to get the population constraints to work in JLS. I might have asked this before, but does anyone know if that's just an un-implemented feature in JLS, or if I'm doing something wrong somehow with Search > Options > Constraints > No more than N ce...

is this thread dead already This thread is not dead, it's only been inactive for a few hours. Most people have other things to do aside from volunteering their free time to provide free tech support. I downloaded the dll from the official python 3.9 64-bit download, and the file path is C:\Users\[R...

I just downloaded JLS and in the JLS manual pdf it says: "The program can be started from command line by issuing the following command: java -jar JavaLifeSearch_1.7.jar". I assume that means the command prompt. But when I put it there I get this message: The system cannot find the file C:\ProgramD...

Wow, that certainly does the job. Personally I had imagined something a bit ... smaller, but there's imagining it and then there's doing it.

Well done FWKnightship!

Firstly, I forgot to mention that I'm thrilled to see a unit cell for rule W110. LFoD is still one of my favourite CA rules aside from CGoL. I would like to at least point out that one of the puffers Sarah posted is period-7, which is not trivial to find. :P Whilst p7 is generally difficult to searc...

There doesn't seem to be a copy of the LFoD collection available here, so I'm attaching a copy which I managed to find digging around in some of my archived files. It is a copy of the collection compiled by Luke Bradford as it was in 2014. Unfortunately it doesn't include the many interesting patter...

An old thread, but a goodie. Here are some *find utilities, posted here from my G Drive for the benefit of those who aren't able to access them there.

Golly 4.0.1 for macOS is now available from sourceforge: https://sourceforge.net/projects/golly/files/golly/golly-4.0/ This version fixes 2 problems in the 4.0 macOS version: 1. Golly could not run any Python scripts. 2. Switching to Dark mode caused some text to become unreadable. Please let me kn...

One more thought: In System Preferences > Security & Privacy what is your setting under "Allow apps downloaded from:"? On my system it's "App store and identified developers" so if your setting is different try changing it and see if that makes any difference to Golly 4.0 or 4.0.2. This setting is ...

And then to load a nutshell file, just copy the file to clipboard and then run the nutshell loader. It should change the rule and copy the compiled ruletable to your clipboard. I ran the Python script and got this error: The problem is that you've got a file named nutshell.py in the location where ...

@wildmyron: Ok, try running a .py script with this build: http://www.trevorrow.com/golly/Golly-4.0.2-Mac.dmg Thanks Andrew. I tried this build and it gives the exact same error text as v4.0.1 Out of curiousity, I tried using my Homebrew Python 3.8 and that has a similar Library Validation error, bu...

@wildmyron and @LaundryPizza03: Please try running a .py script with this special build: http://www.trevorrow.com/golly/Golly-4.0.1-Mac.dmg Along with the usual "Could not load the Python library" dialog, you should get an extra "Golly Error" dialog box. Please tell me the *exact* error message in ...

It's in the "Could not load the Python3 library" dialog: ... Ouch -- that's annoying. It's a pity nobody noticed this while testing the 4.0 beta versions. Hopefully that's because only a tiny minority of Windows users end up having to replace python39.dll with the full path to that file (I still ha...

-snip- A very interesting rule. Any replicators? I'm glad you like it, and that there's been some renewed interest in the rule. Edited to add: I don't believe there have been any replicators found which utilise the interactions between matter and antimatter. Of course, all the known replicators in ...