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It means that the program tried to access memory it hadn't allocated. Try to increase this number and recompile the program.

Don't tell me that you use a Go board to run your simulations.

towerator wrote: Look at this phase! The tagalong removes 2 cells from the copperhead's block!
It means that this "tagalong" is actually an entirely new spaceship.

Yes, I mentioned that above. But I think we can excuse this small inaccuracy for the sake of simplicity.

My congratulations to Nico! You were faster

Wow! Congratulations! It looks very promising! I resume my study of a c/10 puffer. EDIT: Playing a pedant, I think it should be considered an individual spaceship with the same frontend, rather than a tagalong, because the backend interacts with the block. EDIT 2: How about calling it "fireship" due...

Are you sure you posted the correct RLE? It has no symmetry. Also please don't abuse "viewer" tag, "code" is enough.

Ah, okay, thanks for the clarification.

I ran zfind with the following params: ./zfind p6 k1 w8 u There is "done" in the output, but it seems there are no spaceships. Here is the tail of the output: o........ .o....... ......... .oo...... .ooo..... ...o..... ...o..... ......... ......... ooo...... o.oo..... ..o..o... ..o..o... ..oo.o... ....

Thank you! There is another c/6 orthogonal spaceship listed on LifeWiki:Spaceship Search Status Page (conceivably found by Matthias Merzenich?): x = 19, y = 146, rule = B3/S23 6bo5bo$5bo2bobo2bo$4bo3bobo3bo$4bo3bobo3bo$4bob2o3b2obo$4bo4bo4bo$3bo 4bobo4bo$3bo11bo$5b2obobob2o$9bo$3b2o9b2o$3b3o7b3o$3bo...

Are there any other c/6 orthogonal spaceships known except 114P6H1V0, 274P6H1V0, 56P6H1V0, Dragon and their variants, mentioned in the wiki?

Okay, here you are.

Thanks for compiling the list! It makes things much easier.

I think gsearch was supposed to work this way. Unfortunately it hasn't found the c/10 spaceship for some obscure reason.

I see nothing particularly interesting about your pattern too.

I see nothing particularly interesting about this pattern.

Take a look if these topics might interest you. (13,1)c/31 spaceship Quadratically growing replicator Strange loop I think these problems are hard enough and solving them would involve in particular a lot of discrete maths and modular arithmetic. Let me know if they're too hard and you would like so...

@zdr Thanks for sharing your code!

Why do I not find LWSS with ?

P. S. Search for glide-symmetric spaceships would be also a nice addition.

See http://conwaylife.com/wiki/114P6H1V0#Variants

Good luck synthesizing them

I examined collisions of single gliders and *WSS with copperheads and it seems there are no collisions that can be forced to explode. It means, no simple puffer a la Jason Summers :( There is probably a way to ignite a reaction with a glider or *WSS flotilla, but that would require to build a versat...

To put it clearly: The first helix you posted releases SW gliders, which are not useful as the H climbs SE gliders. That's right. The second helix you posted has the entire reaction on the wrong side. I still not understand, why it is a "wrong side", but okay. The first helix can be made useful by ...

Before I go further, a word on angles: in this post, you claimed the gliders come out the wrong side of the helix, but I feel you were backwards. I think it's easier to show, than to explain. The first helix: x = 514, y = 888, rule = B3/S23 482b2o$470bobo10b2o$470bobo9bo13bo$470bobo22b3o$494b2obo$4...

I noticed this.

EDIT: Probably Nathaniel has got more information about sources people come from.

The more I think the more I'm inclined towards the thought that zdr's search program could be written using a brute force approach I described in the first post or a similar one. In the end it would need to enumerate patterns only up to 14 cells, if symmetries are taken into account. EDIT: Another q...

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Ironically, both incidents were caused by newcomers in the community.