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Ahh, I hadn't noticed that in your original example so I didn't know what was going on when I replicated it. But in that case, here's an extensible+adjustable "single-signal" 6c/something*N rake: x = 523, y = 65, rule = B2cek3q4-i/S13ck4k 76bo4$76bo4$76bo2$512bo4bo2$76bo2$476b2o6b2o$478bo4bo$76bo430...

(possibly) adjustable-speed rake, shown at 6c/545 (EDIT: evolves into 12c/628): x = 91, y = 57, rule = B2cek3q4-i/S13ck4k 39bob2obo2b2o2bob2obo39$9bo$10b2o8$71bobo6bobo$69b3obo6bob3o$69b2o12b 2o$63bo2bo20bo2bo$33bo18bo11bo2bo8b2o8bo2bo$31b3o4bo8bo4b3o8bo2bo20bo 2bo$33bo2bo2bo6bo2bo2bo16b2o12b2o$31b...

Fix for the second one: x = 21, y = 18, rule = B2e3aceij5-ijr/S23-a4 11bobo$11b3o2$o10b3o$3o8bobo$obo15b2o$o2bo15bo$obo16b2o$3o$o15b2o$17bo $17b2o4$13b2o$14bo$14b2o! (There are a lot of different placements for the added catalysts) EDIT - And the fast converter can be reduced to: x = 16, y = 10, rul...

Hm. Forum games like Mafia or Corrupt a Wish would IMO be a wonderful addition to the Random Posts thread or the Sandbox (that is, the subforum, not the section!), but I have a feeling that role-playing activities wouldn't be much of interest to regulars in the mostly-academic spirit of the forum at...

I assume the name is 'actually' pronounced just as [saka] (vowel length doesn't appear to be phonemic in Malay/Indonesian?) -- so you're right about the schwa, but the first /a/ poses a problem as well. The usual english rendition of it would probably come out as [sɑːkə] or [sʌːkə]

I seem to recall a wiki page writing the pronunciation as "goo-SURE" (so /guːˈʃɚ/), but strangely I can't find it anymore...
ignore the edit count sorry
One more: I do say Calcyman with a hard second C, by the way

Almost a 2c/30->(2)glider converter: RLE Easy fix! x = 64, y = 30, rule = B2e3aceij5-ijr/S23-a4 46b2o$45bo2bo$44bo$44bo$45bo2$12b2o46bo$11bo2bo45b3o$10bo51bo$10bo$11b o24b2o$35bo2bo$34bo26bo$34bo26b3o$35bo27bo2$2b2o$bo2bo51bobo$o55b3o$o$ bo52b5o$54bo3bo$11b2ob2o35b2ob2o$12bobo37bobo$11b2ob2o35b2ob2...

gameoflifemaniac wrote:So, can you post the default GollyPrefs on this thread?

Read again --

dvgrn wrote:If you remove all GollyPrefs files that the Golly executable might be able to locate, it will write out a new GollyPrefs file for you with default settings.

Well, as far as just 'clean (double) backrakes' go, there's a decent amount of two-engine solutions along these lines x = 25, y = 20, rule = B34c/S2-i34cqz6e8 17bo$15bo$10bo4bo$8b2obo3b2o6b2o$8bo4bo9b2o$8bo3bo$9b3o3b2o$11bo$15b2o bo$19b2o$14b2o3b2o$19b2o$5bo$4bob2o$bo6bobo$o3bo3b2obo$o5b4obo9b2o$2ob...

Oscillators using the reaction were possible before, but using snarks makes it simpler and smaller. (It is fortunate that the input and output gliders of the reaction have the same color, otherwise larger glider reflectors would have been needed.) One such (comparatively quite bulky) oscillator can...

dvgrn wrote: Right away, sir!
Write away, sir!

Gah, I've got nothing as punny for "dvgrn" nor "Dave Greene". But thank ya

Hey - wiki name "Wright", may I be added to the trusted list?

Well, I'm not really sure what happened to this thread starting on page 2, but I've just found this beautiful teardown and I figure it deserves to be memorialized somehow: wwei23, you've started to irritate many users on this forum, with a combination of needlessly promoting your '1x256X2+1' results...

I believe it's possible that a gun might exist along these lines, with one osc's phi spark replacing the right-hand catalyst of the other: x = 25, y = 42, rule = B3/S23 17b2o$17bo$15bobo$11b2o2b2o$11b2o7$22bo$10b3o7b3o$9bo2bo6bo$8bo9bobo$ 9bo2bo6b2o$10b3o$19b2o$20bo$19bo$19b2o4$9b3o$10bo3$10b6ob2o$9...

dvgrn wrote: Don't know about anyone else, but I get a "The instant invite is invalid or expired." message when I try that link.

Ach, I'd forgotten invite links were tied to specific channels. New link here (and edited into the first post)

Noooooooooooo the lounge is gone Well I guess it's direct messages for me. But I only have gmc and drc as friends :( The server itself wasn't actually deleted (just all of its channels and users :?), which means that the invite link from the first post still works along with any others posted acros...

...yikes. Major major major set of oversights on my part, absolute dumbest of which being that I had the server bot's token on GitHub — and I suppose I don't really need to finish this sentence but just in case anyone needs it spelled out — free for all to use and therefore to come in and delete eve...

Do you mean x = 24, y = 17, rule = B3/S2cek3-a4-ijkrw bo$obo$bo$22bo$21bobo$bo20bo$obo$2bo$o2bo$2bo$obo$bo3$bo$obo$bo! Yeah that's it, my bad. Copied the wrong pattern yesterday. The catalyst in the p98 shuttle is interesting, good find! It allows two new conduits to be derived from the F68: x = 57...

True p118 gun: x = 61, y = 21, rule = B3/S2cek3-a4-ijkrw 5bo44bo$4bobo42bobo$5bo44bo2$59bo$bo56bobo$obo18bo37bo$bo23b3o$19b2o4b o2bo$24bo3bo$24bo4bo$24bo3bo$19b2o4bo2bo$25b3o$21bo4$5bo44bo$4bobo42bo bo$5bo44bo! Cool catalyst design on the left! The 80c/160 gun can be paired to produce these gliders...

Love this rule! I'll post some of the conduits I found in the discord server. For the smallest c/2 'rocket': x = 95, y = 77, rule = B3/S2cek3-a4-ijkrw 20b3ob3obobo23b2o$20bo5bobobo22bobo$20b2o3b2ob3o22b2o$20bo5bo3bo$20bo 3b3o3bo$41bo16bo$40bobo14bobo$42bo16bo$40bo2bo16bo$42bo16bo$40bobo14bo bo$41bo1...

On Stack Exchange there's a vertical-ellipsis icon that shows up to the right of each message, that lets you link back specifically to a previous message. There isn't anything like that on Discord (yet), is there? I suppose not, or at least not within clicking distance of a server chat! It's a litt...

Happy 13th!

muzik wrote:Is it weird I always thought gmc was older?

I did too, actually.. probably in part due to his abnormally high useful-contributions-to-age ratio

Yeah, that's what I was trying to say with "rotationally time-symmetric"... suppose I should've slowed down a bit to think about what "multiplicity" actually means, haha. (Shame, too, because it's 9 generations off from being chainable at p372/6=62) -- It remains the RRO with the highest max-multipl...

p372 RRO x = 5, y = 6, rule = B2i3aijnq4city5ackqy6cik7c8/S23-a4city5aiknq 3bo$2b2o$3b2o$o2$bo! Congratulations! At 6 cells in its minimal phase, this is now tied for smallest known reflectorless rotating osc -- and it has a maximum multiplicity of 5x, surpassing drc's former record! (Although I'm ...

Cool idea! Looks like there isn't anything notable from October 2001, so mine would have to be Gabriel Nivasch's tremi- and quasi-pseudo SLs from July of that year. Kind of weird to know that this hobby was being actively researched & developed this long before I had the faintest idea what it was. L...