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- March 8th, 2024, 8:17 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Suggested patterns for Golly
- Replies: 182
- Views: 22606
Re: Suggested patterns for Golly
In the past we maintained stamp collections of honey farm hasslers and traffic light hasslers, but the number of these hasslers (as well as hasslers of other objects) has since exploded. I'm wondering if it might be better to reduce these collections to include only one example for each known period...
- March 6th, 2024, 8:01 pm
- Forum: Patterns
- Topic: LLSSS min pop search results spam
- Replies: 72
- Views: 6325
Re: LLSSS min pop search results spam
one question for you perhaps is how interesting is 62-cell 2c/5 even assuming 60-cell 2c/5 even completes with no surprises (just the known doubling of the 30-cell ship)? Lowest priority. Only run it if you have absolutely nothing else to run. The same projections that put 60-cell 2c/5 even at 83.1...
- March 6th, 2024, 5:48 pm
- Forum: Patterns
- Topic: LLSSS min pop search results spam
- Replies: 72
- Views: 6325
Re: LLSSS min pop search results spam
2c/5 pop 32 died in what I suspect is the worst phase search. After that I went back and ran pop 31 which squeaked by, running ~6h on the fanciest machine and maxing out at 119.89GB RAM. It found only the known pop 30 ship. This confirms that ship is smallest and there are no ships with minpop 31. ...
- March 4th, 2024, 11:19 pm
- Forum: LifeWiki Discussion
- Topic: Reviewing Special:RecentChanges
- Replies: 74
- Views: 2498
Re: Reviewing Special:RecentChanges
Infoboxes are really confusing, in several different ways. I think there are many cases when one could do better without an infobox. Pattern infoboxes work great for unambiguous individual patterns that aren't subject to change, like loafer or mazing . They work less well with patterns that can be ...
- March 4th, 2024, 7:08 pm
- Forum: LifeWiki Discussion
- Topic: Reviewing Special:RecentChanges
- Replies: 74
- Views: 2498
Re: Reviewing Special:RecentChanges
the page and the infobox should stay at "55P23". From the viewpoint of documenting it on LifeWiki, the reduction from 55 cells to 54 cells does not make a new article topic. The oscillator was discovered in 2022 and it is best to show and describe the original version in the infobox, with details a...
- March 3rd, 2024, 2:30 am
- Forum: Other Cellular Automata
- Topic: B36/S245
- Replies: 48
- Views: 15410
Re: B36/S245
Wow, that's quite a lot! Please cross-post the ships representing new speeds to the spaceships in Life-like CA thread.DroneBetter wrote: ↑March 3rd, 2024, 1:02 amI have a few results on the elementary side of things to share
- March 3rd, 2024, 2:21 am
- Forum: Patterns
- Topic: Oscillator Discussion Thread
- Replies: 4511
- Views: 1690488
Re: Oscillator Discussion Thread
The B-heptomino based dependent reflectors are nice, but I'm still very curious to see a method for sub-p17 independent reflection. Here is an idea that could maybe get us periods 15 and 16 if we are extremely lucky. Start with a particular honey farm predecessor and hit it with an eater and dot spa...
- March 2nd, 2024, 9:29 pm
- Forum: Patterns
- Topic: Thread For Your Naming Proposals of Unnamed Patterns
- Replies: 177
- Views: 80502
Re: Thread For Your Naming Proposals of Unnamed Patterns
Does the following wick have an established name? x = 25, y = 2, rule = B3/S23 2ob2ob2ob2ob2ob2ob2ob2obo$ob2ob2ob2ob2ob2ob2ob2ob2o! I always thought of it as a "coiled snake". This wick was named previously, although I've never seen the name used elsewhere. In a reader reply by Paul Wilson publishe...
- March 2nd, 2024, 7:39 pm
- Forum: Patterns
- Topic: LLSSS min pop search results spam
- Replies: 72
- Views: 6325
Re: LLSSS min pop search results spam
Do you think that the even-symmetric (2,0)c/5 search up to 58 or 60 cells could be completed with 120 GB? I imagine it would be very close to the memory limit.
- March 2nd, 2024, 7:11 pm
- Forum: Patterns
- Topic: Spaceship Discussion Thread
- Replies: 3137
- Views: 1139088
Re: Spaceship Discussion Thread
this should be an exhaustive list of c/4 odd ships up to pop 61: The known pop 46 gutter ship: #C [[ TRACK 0 -1/4 ]] x = 19, y = 10, rule = B3/S23 3bo11bo$3bo11bo$2bobo9bobo2$bo3bo7bo3bo$bob6ob6obo$o7bobo7bo$o7bobo7bo $o17bo$bob2ob2o3b2ob2obo! This new (I think) pop 61 ship: #C [[ TRACK 0 -1/4 ]] x...
- March 2nd, 2024, 3:01 am
- Forum: Patterns
- Topic: Thread For Your Naming Proposals of Unnamed Patterns
- Replies: 177
- Views: 80502
Re: Thread For Your Naming Proposals of Unnamed Patterns
Will constrictor be an ok name? It is a type of snake and can be very long. They also kill their prey by constriction, which involves the snake coiling around the prey. I think it would be fine to include that as an alternate name, but I would also keep the name "coiled snake", which I think is a b...
- March 2nd, 2024, 2:41 am
- Forum: Website Discussion
- Topic: Resolution of race conditions due to delay between pattern discovery and reporting
- Replies: 10
- Views: 786
Re: Resolution of race conditions due to delay between pattern discovery and reporting
I think the credibility of any such claim would need to be assessed by the community. The first to publish should absolutely be acknowledged, and any highly credible claim of earlier discovery should be mentioned as well. Here's a famous example of this issue: In 1805 Legendre published the method o...
- March 1st, 2024, 8:30 pm
- Forum: Patterns
- Topic: Thread For Your Naming Proposals of Unnamed Patterns
- Replies: 177
- Views: 80502
Re: Thread For Your Naming Proposals of Unnamed Patterns
I object- it is meaningless and not in usage. In contrast, caravan is in usage by more users. If you oppose caravan, you also have to oppose bihivite as per principle. In addition to what dvgrn mentioned, I think there are two important differences. First, "caravan" replaced an existing name, albei...
- March 1st, 2024, 9:00 am
- Forum: LifeWiki Discussion
- Topic: Colors vs. plain black-and-white format in LifeWiki articles
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1404
Re: Colors vs. plain black-and-white format in LifeWiki articles
In my opinion, For LCM SKOPs the pattern should always be presented in a minimum population phase. If there is more than one minimum population phase, the chosen phase should ideally be the phase that is the largest number of generations after the interaction (so the interaction site is more orange ...
- March 1st, 2024, 6:49 am
- Forum: LifeWiki Discussion
- Topic: LifeWiki Edit War Reporting Thread
- Replies: 50
- Views: 3550
Re: LifeWiki Edit War Reporting Thread
Edit war in https://conwaylife.com/w/index.php?title=Block_pull&action=history https://conwaylife.com/w/index.php?diff=146384&oldid=140558 Repeated removal of an existing term that can be found via forum search . False/misleading edit summary. Latest revision as of 05:13, 1 March 2024 Prior use of ...
- March 1st, 2024, 6:46 am
- Forum: Patterns
- Topic: Thread For Your Naming Proposals of Unnamed Patterns
- Replies: 177
- Views: 80502
Re: Thread For Your Naming Proposals of Unnamed Patterns
A few years ago, Paul Champman coined the term "bihivite" for the classic, quintessential crystal used in the crystallization and decay oscillator . The term has otherwise been used only by dvgrn and confocaloid, so there is not widespread adoption. The crystal has been found independently numerous ...
- March 1st, 2024, 6:09 am
- Forum: The Sandbox
- Topic: Thread for your miscellaneous posts and discussions
- Replies: 274
- Views: 24076
Re: Thread for your miscellaneous posts and discussions
I think putting discoveries under the user page is also problematic (especially when there are many edits showing in the log of recent changes). For comparison, on Wikipedia, WP:NOTWEBHOST says: Wikipedians have individual user pages, but they should be used primarily to present information relevan...
- March 1st, 2024, 4:59 am
- Forum: LifeWiki Discussion
- Topic: LifeWiki Trusted Account Request Thread - Post requests here
- Replies: 792
- Views: 291725
Re: Re-Trusted Account Request Thread - Post requests here
Can I get trusted pls? I want to put in a thing that I made :) Username is TheOddball524 There is a general rule that you don't add your own discoveries to the wiki (except under your user page, for example, User:TheOddball524/my_pattern). The best place to post your own discoveries and constructio...
- February 29th, 2024, 8:12 pm
- Forum: LifeWiki Discussion
- Topic: Colors vs. plain black-and-white format in LifeWiki articles
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1404
Re: Colors vs. plain black-and-white format in LifeWiki articles
The usual way to display a reaction envelope is to use a LifeHistory pattern with the blue cells left intact. But LifeHistory doesn't fit in well with the LifeWiki's current color scheme. What if we make a rule like... LightHistory, perhaps, that is functionally LifeHistory but with Book-theme colo...
- February 29th, 2024, 7:36 pm
- Forum: Patterns
- Topic: Gun Discussion Thread
- Replies: 687
- Views: 223897
Re: Gun Discussion Thread
Fortunately, we only need two for each: x = 114, y = 114, rule = B3/S23 42bo2$40bob3o13bobo15bo$42b2obo10b3ob3o11b3o$42bob2o9bo7bo9bo$43b3obo 7b3ob4o10b2o$56bobo$45bo10bob2o2bo7b2o$57bobo3bo5bo2bo$40bo4bo12bo4bo 6b2o$39bobo21bo$40bo3b2o3b2o12bo8bo$43b2o4b2o9bo2bo7bobo$27b2o33bo7bo $28bo31bobobo5bo2...
- February 29th, 2024, 5:08 pm
- Forum: Patterns
- Topic: Gun Discussion Thread
- Replies: 687
- Views: 223897
Re: Gun Discussion Thread
Can someone please use this to build an explicit independent 90-degree glider reflector? I'm not exactly sure how it would be done. The typical method doesn't work... It's okay to use two or more of these guns, I take it? No restrictions other than that the pattern works as an independent p16 glide...
- February 29th, 2024, 4:37 pm
- Forum: Patterns
- Topic: Gun Discussion Thread
- Replies: 687
- Views: 223897
Re: Gun Discussion Thread
One more period off the list! x = 36, y = 24, rule = B3/S23 12b2o$12b2o$6bo$6b2o$5b2obo3b2o$4bo2b3o2bob2o$3bobobo5b3o$2bobobo$3o2b o23b2o$bob2o6bo7bo9bobo$2b2o6bobo5b3o5b2obobo$3bo7bo5b2obo5bobobo$28b o$27bo2bo$27bo$21b2o4bo$15b2o5b2o3bo4bo$21b2o4bo3bobo$21bo6bo2b2obo$32b obo$16b2o10b4ob3o$17bo9bo7...
- February 29th, 2024, 4:22 pm
- Forum: LifeWiki Discussion
- Topic: Colors vs. plain black-and-white format in LifeWiki articles
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1404
Re: Colors vs. plain black-and-white format in LifeWiki articles
"THEME Book" was an experiment. Not counting some very limited situations where visible envelope is likely to help, I think it is best to keep the default two-colour theme in most cases. I generally agree that "THEME Book" should be avoided in most cases, and when it is used there should be a nearb...
- February 29th, 2024, 1:19 am
- Forum: The Sandbox
- Topic: look to your left, and kill the above poster with the first thing you see (weird game)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 468
- February 29th, 2024, 1:08 am
- Forum: The Sandbox
- Topic: look to your left, and kill the above poster with the first thing you see (weird game)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 468
Re: look to your left, and kill the above poster with the first thing you see (weird game)
I'm not sure dark humor is appropriate for these forums, especially when it's completely off topic. Topic locked.