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What measure of "smallest" are you looking for?

The smallest in population that I could find was this:

You see, I think that Block is the only unique still life in which each sell has the exact same "property"- Number of neighbors, same location (when you spin it, reflect it and do other things), and same situation, overall. I suppose you mean you think that the block is the only still life with onl...

No reason why not -- the search space is enormous, and we don't even know for sure that some three-block constellation isn't a pure 6-glider generator. But one step at a time -- I'd like to crack the 1:1.5 ratio before tackling 1:2...! But...but we already have a (26+n):n splitter :? Why doesn't th...

The real question is: can the 1:2 ratio be passed? Or, for that matter, met with a finite number of blocks.

How do people get glider synthesis? Do they use programs, or just collide gliders in random ways? I mean is there a program that I could use or a website that makes glider synthesis? For small patterns, they are usually found by running a program with collides gliders in random ways. For large, com...

Also, in golly, if you copy a pattern, you can just paste it into notepad and it will automatically be converted into rle.

The minimum distance between loafers in a single lane is 73 ticks: This doesn't rule out closer packings of multi-lane streams.

They are certainly replicators (you can also use a finite line on a toroidal or cylindrical grid.) There is an unsolved problem to find a finite replicator, which an infinite line does not qualify as.

Wow! The whole time we were still doing the soup search, I was waiting and waiting for a nonstandard small ship to show up naturally. But it's been there the whole time AND it is at a new velocity

It should probably be noted that you don't need to understand how scripts work (let alone how to write them) to use them effectively. I am still not comfortable writing golly scripts, but use them a lot. A big plus for golly, as I see it, is that absent features can be added as scripts. Once you sav...

I'd be in favor of adding better drawing tools in golly. Particularly diagonal lines. Although, it should be noted that rectangles can already be drawn easily in golly with the invert script or by changing "random fill" to 100%. What is it that you find easier about mcell's rule system? No one has a...

So... it appears that no one else has started a nomination thread for the pattern of the year. Since Calcyman seems to have vanished, I am starting it now. The rules, copied from last year's thread, are: Same rules apply: You may enter as many patterns as you like, as long as you have discovered or ...

Mcell is more convenient.Although golly can support all types of CA,but we don't need them. :mrgreen: What's more convenient about it? And why should we limit ourselves to CA that mcell can represent? Or to naive step algorithms rather than hashing? Or a finite bounding grid? Also, there's a script...

If you open a downloaded file and it automatically opens a new window with an older version of golly, just copy and paste said file into your main golly window (which I would assume is 2.4.)

Agreed. The primary concern I think should be a RuleTableNoHash algorithm, possibly followed by either larger neighborhoods or probabilistic CA (larger neighborhoods can already be emulated by rule tables with additional states, though. Probablistic CA would be nice, but would be hard to do efficien...

chineseman wrote:another ruler exteneder

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x = 26, y = 16, rule = 34568/2/10
5$12.FG5.A$2.F8.GHIHF.ABCB$.GIG3.ACA2.FEGEG.A.A.A$2A.5A.4A.GH3ADAB3A$
2A.5A.4A.GH3ADAB3A$.GIG3.ACA2.FEGEG.A.A.A$2.F8.GHIHF.ABCB$12.FG5.A!

Doesn't work...are you missing part of it?

As for perfect eaters, http://conwaylife.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=269 has a discussion on the topic.

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I think this merits an update to the pentadecathalon article "beyond herschels"!

Did you copy the wrong pattern? All it is is a barber pole with one end removed. There are no loaves...

It is now working, thanks!

Very strange. Now the undo button seems to be working fine, but .mc files do not load at all (they give me the same error messages as I already gave). This includes both .mc files I previously created, and ones in the hashlife folder included with 2.4. I'm not sure how to recreate them in version 2....

Windows 7, it happens every time, when I press Ctrl+Z using any algorithm except quicklife. When I do it in hashlife b3/s23, the message is (I get all of these messages at once): Error from Hashlife: node out of range in readmacrocell. Error from quicklife: cannot read macrocell format. Error from g...

When I press "Ctrl Z" to undo, I get an error message.

Sokwe wrote:Seems legit.

I can't believe I didn't see this until today. This is definitely the most entertaining thing I've seen in a while!

See the post directly above yours, specifically the fine print:

Just kidding, I made it up. You knew that, right?

Am I the only one who noticed that we are nearly a month past the end of the voting?