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by praosylen
March 6th, 2021, 10:11 pm
Forum: Patterns
Topic: PotY 2020 Voting Thread
Replies: 64
Views: 14037

Re: PotY 2020 Voting Thread

I was planning to end the voting now but then saw that you voted. Shall the voting end anyway? I think it's a bad idea to end voting without announcing when voting will end well in advance. My suggestion would be one of three options: End voting a week from today, End voting on Pi Day (the 14th), O...
by praosylen
March 5th, 2021, 2:40 pm
Forum: The Sandbox
Topic: The Near-Anagram Game
Replies: 273
Views: 41971

Re: The Near-Anagram Game

Schiaparelliorbust wrote:
March 5th, 2021, 2:38 pm
relish
sleigh
by praosylen
March 5th, 2021, 2:37 pm
Forum: Other Cellular Automata
Topic: OCA DOTY 2020
Replies: 37
Views: 8126

Re: OCA DOTY 2020

I wonder if there's time to sneak one more nomination in here before the deadline... I feel like Saka's natural adjustable ships deserve a mention. (Possible description: "Probably the first adjustable-speed spaceships to have been found naturally rather than constructed, with an unusually complex m...
by praosylen
March 5th, 2021, 2:29 am
Forum: The Sandbox
Topic: The Near-Anagram Game
Replies: 273
Views: 41971

Re: The Near-Anagram Game

MathAndCode wrote:
March 4th, 2021, 1:59 pm
soothe
hostel
by praosylen
March 3rd, 2021, 4:05 pm
Forum: The Sandbox
Topic: Famous Quotes
Replies: 418
Views: 158513

Re: Famous Quotes

Saka wrote:
May 27th, 2017, 9:10 pm
Lets make a collection of famous quotes by forum users.
I'll start with the most famous of all:
zdr wrote:There may be bugs in gfind.
Here is one more more
Gustavo6046 wrote:Discuss. With me.
by praosylen
March 1st, 2021, 4:18 pm
Forum: Patterns
Topic: Oscillator Discussion Thread
Replies: 4502
Views: 1683583

Re: Oscillator Discussion Thread

Edit: I found this. x = 44, y = 44, rule = B3/S23 17b2o$17b2o4$14bobo4b2o$14bo2bo3bo$10b2o6bo5bo$10bo4bo2bo4b2o$18bo$15b obo17b2o$15b2o3b3o5b2o6bo$19bo3bo4b2o$18bo5bo$11b2o5b2obo15b2o$11b2o10b 2o7b2obo$32bo5bo$33bo3bo4b2o$21b2o6b2o3b3o5b2o$7b2o4bobo4bo2bo5bobo$8b o3bo2bo3bo4bo7bo$5bo5bo6bo6bo3bo2bo...
by praosylen
February 22nd, 2021, 7:52 pm
Forum: Patterns
Topic: PotY 2020 Voting Thread
Replies: 64
Views: 14037

Re: PotY 2020 Voting Thread

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by praosylen
February 21st, 2021, 1:34 am
Forum: The Sandbox
Topic: Absolutely Useless Patterns Not Worthy Of OCA Thread
Replies: 110
Views: 24233

Re: Absolutely Useless Patterns Not Worthy Of OCA Thread

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x = 5, y = 6, rule = B3/S234w
3b2o$bo2bo$b2o$2b2o$o3bo$2ob2o!
EDIT:

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x = 10, y = 15, rule = B3/S234w
8bo$8bo$6b2o$3b3o$2bo$bobo$3bo4b2o$3bo2bo2bo$3bo2b2o$2bo4b2o$bo3bo3bo
$bo3b2ob2o$bo$bo$o!
by praosylen
February 19th, 2021, 3:52 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Thread for basic questions
Replies: 4788
Views: 1226707

Re: Thread for basic questions

post It's a quine : it works in both LifeViewer and an actual programming language. It's not an OCA. That's not exactly a quine — a quine is typically a program in some language that prints the original program's source code when run. I think the word you're looking for is " polyglot ". (In colloqu...
by praosylen
February 16th, 2021, 8:51 pm
Forum: The Sandbox
Topic: Random posts
Replies: 5930
Views: 1584569

East North North South West North East

mitochondrion oneiromancy pineapple_
by praosylen
February 12th, 2021, 6:23 pm
Forum: Patterns
Topic: Thread for your chaos-edgeshooting reactions that can probably yield new conduits
Replies: 137
Views: 34644

Re: Thread for your chaos-edgeshooting reactions that can probably yield new conduits

Another edit: This would be even better if someone could find an appropriate weld. x = 26, y = 27, rule = B3/S23 ob2o$3o$bo10$b2o$b2o4$19b2o$19bo$17bobo$17b2o2bo$20bobo$20bobo$19b2ob 3o$25bo$19b2ob3o$19b2obo! Just add a cell: x = 68, y = 47, rule = B3/S23 20$ob2o$3o$bo10$b2o$b2o4$19b2o$19bo$17bobo$...
by praosylen
February 12th, 2021, 2:03 pm
Forum: Patterns
Topic: Thread For Your Useless Discoveries
Replies: 4540
Views: 1753782

Re: Thread For Your Useless Discoveries

Not mine, but here's something from Catagolue: x = 77, y = 142, rule = B3/S23 9bo5bo48bo5bo$8bobo3bobo46bobo3bobo$7b2ob2ob2ob2o44b2ob2ob2ob2o$7bo2b o3bo2bo44bo2bo3bo2bo$5b2ob2o5b2ob2o40b2ob2o5b2ob2o$6b2o9b2o42b2o9b2o$ 7b2o7b2o44b2o7b2o$8bo7bo46bo7bo$5b2o11b2o40b2o11b2o$6b3o7b3o42b3o7b3o $9bobobobo48...
by praosylen
February 11th, 2021, 4:51 am
Forum: Patterns
Topic: Soup search results
Replies: 2589
Views: 1903144

Re: Soup search results

A new Schick engine soup from rliston: x = 16, y = 16, rule = B3/S23 obboooboobooobob$ obooobbobobooooo$ bobbbobboooooobo$ booboobobooobboo$ obobbboobobbbobo$ oboobboboobboooo$ bobbboobbobooobo$ bbbobbboobbobboo$ bbbbbbbboooboooo$ bbobbobbooobbobo$ ooobobbboboobbob$ oooobbbooooooobb$ obobbooobboobbb...
by praosylen
February 10th, 2021, 4:35 pm
Forum: Patterns
Topic: Oscillator Discussion Thread
Replies: 4502
Views: 1683583

Re: Oscillator Discussion Thread

I'm still not sure why no P19 billiard tables have been found. Below are a P17 and P18 that aren't phase shifts (as far as I know) and don't look the same halfway through (like P22 champagne glass). A p19 would easily be a few orders of magnitude harder to find than that p18. That might be true if ...
by praosylen
February 10th, 2021, 12:21 pm
Forum: Other Cellular Automata
Topic: LeapLife (B2n3/S23-q)
Replies: 1029
Views: 246328

Re: LeapLife (B2n3/S23-q)

It's also p4, however...
by praosylen
February 9th, 2021, 4:26 pm
Forum: The Sandbox
Topic: Fun facts
Replies: 81
Views: 17400

Re: Fun facts

Fun fact: banana is red
by praosylen
February 4th, 2021, 12:10 am
Forum: The Sandbox
Topic: Random posts
Replies: 5930
Views: 1584569

Re: Random posts

Hunting wrote:
February 4th, 2021, 12:09 am

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x = 0, y = 0, rule = B2n3/S23-q
oo...oo$
o.o.o.o$
..o.o..$
.oo..o.$
..oo...$
...o...$
.o.o.o.$
o.o.o.o$
o.o.o.o$
.o...o.!

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x = 0, y = 0, rule = B2n3/S23-q
2o$2o2$4o$o2bo2$2bo$o2bo$o2bo$bo2$o2bo$4o2$2o$2o!
The top osc is known and works in life, but I love the stable toadflipper!
by praosylen
February 3rd, 2021, 12:36 pm
Forum: Other Cellular Automata
Topic: Miscellaneous Discoveries in Other Cellular Automata
Replies: 4011
Views: 942120

Re: Miscellaneous Discoveries in Other Cellular Automata

Schiaparelliorbust wrote:
February 3rd, 2021, 12:30 pm
Natural p13 in Mazetric:

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rle
I unfortunately don't know how to make a proper stator.
Here's one:

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x = 11, y = 10, rule = B3/S1234
6bo$6bo$3b2obobo$6bobo$b4o3b3o$o$ob2o2b3o$2bobo$2bob3o$3b2o!
by praosylen
February 1st, 2021, 6:11 pm
Forum: The Sandbox
Topic: [WARNING: POSSIBLE BROWSER CRASHES] Wonderful, I found a forum glitch weapon:tm:
Replies: 16
Views: 2717

viewer-based cursedness This seems a bit like a bug, in the help section of LV it says you're not supposed to be able to get the hight over 4096 and the width under some lower limit I don't remember (but which is definitely well over 6) (Also is there any way we could, like, not call it that this t...
by praosylen
February 1st, 2021, 6:03 pm
Forum: The Sandbox
Topic: "the anti-rule thread"
Replies: 64
Views: 11872

Re: https://buy-free-bitcoin-cheap-now-today.gov

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by praosylen
January 30th, 2021, 1:06 pm
Forum: The Sandbox
Topic: Smallest still lifes with specific islands
Replies: 46
Views: 12466

Re: Smallest still lifes with specific islands

One more reduction:

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x = 11, y = 5, rule = LifeHistory
$.2A2.2C.2A$.A2.C.C.A$2.A.C.C2.A$.2A.2C2.2A!
by praosylen
January 28th, 2021, 9:00 pm
Forum: Patterns
Topic: PotY 2020 Nomination Thread
Replies: 77
Views: 15366

Re: PotY 2020 Nomination Thread

If I might sneak in a couple extra last-minute nominations before we get started with the description writing and voting... I added the two together. Sorry to reply to the same post again! You may realize this, but I was suggesting that the skimmers and the agar crawlers/bubbles/clearers be two sep...
by praosylen
January 28th, 2021, 4:07 pm
Forum: Patterns
Topic: PotY 2020 Nomination Thread
Replies: 77
Views: 15366

Re: PotY 2020 Nomination Thread

MathAndCode wrote:
January 28th, 2021, 2:11 pm
in the third paragraph, you appear to have skipped the number 5. Did you simply miscount, or is there another link that I should put in?
I must have miscounted... Feel free to fix it.
by praosylen
January 28th, 2021, 4:06 pm
Forum: Patterns
Topic: Thread For Your Accidental Discoveries
Replies: 2053
Views: 1416688

Re: Thread For Your Accidental Discoveries

I have finally rediscovered figure eight: rle Now with catalysts! (Not sure why you would want to do this using catalysts though...) x = 22, y = 22, rule = B3/S23 10b2o$10bobo$12bo$8b4ob2o$8bo2bobobo$13bobo$13bo2b2o$12b2o4bo$14b5o$14b o4b2o$9bo7b2o2bo$8b3o7bob2o$7bo3bo6bo$8b3o6b2o$2b2o5bo$bobo$bo$2...