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by Alexey_Nigin
September 11th, 2016, 6:21 pm
Forum: Other Cellular Automata
Topic: Rule request thread
Replies: 946
Views: 383042

Re: Rule request thread

Rhombic wrote:Immigration and QuadLife? I can't find them.
Here.
by Alexey_Nigin
September 10th, 2016, 10:38 am
Forum: The Sandbox
Topic: why tempban?
Replies: 7
Views: 4349

Re: why tempban?

When someone (me) sends you a private message, please reply to that message instead of creating a new topic. I think you will get tempbanned if you don't stop doing what you have been doing recently. The specific annoying things you have done are listed below: [list] Asking the same question repeat...
by Alexey_Nigin
September 9th, 2016, 4:35 am
Forum: Website Discussion
Topic: Pattern viewer for forum threads
Replies: 3384
Views: 835444

Re: Pattern viewer for forum threads

If I run the pattern in this post with increased step size, LifeViewer gives a wrong answer about when the life ended.
by Alexey_Nigin
September 9th, 2016, 4:30 am
Forum: Patterns
Topic: Thread For Your Useless Discoveries
Replies: 4517
Views: 1750211

Re: Thread For Your Useless Discoveries

Who can find a diehard of greater than 500 generations that does not involve a glider heading towards a really far away object? Does this count? x = 993, y = 989, rule = B3/S23 991b2o$987b2o2b2o$986bobo$985bo5b2o$984bo4bo2bo$983bo5b2o$982bo$981bo$ 980bo$979bo$978bo$977bo$976bo$975bo$974bo$973bo$972...
by Alexey_Nigin
September 8th, 2016, 5:30 am
Forum: The Sandbox
Topic: Cellular Automaton Stack Exchange
Replies: 15
Views: 8854

Re: Cellular Automaton Stack Exchange

Supported the proposal. Sadly, it still needs 57 more followers, which is about the total number of active members on these forums. So we need to get everyone to create an account and press "follow". From my experience, it will be very difficult, if not impossible. Moreover, I think some people will...
by Alexey_Nigin
September 2nd, 2016, 10:15 am
Forum: The Sandbox
Topic: New still life
Replies: 37
Views: 17075

Re: New still life

Hello, and welcome to the forums! Unfortunately, new still lifes are generally very boring, to the extent that even the official rules mention them as an example of uninteresting patterns. The reason behind it is very simple: still lifes are too easy to find and there are too many of them. If I want...
by Alexey_Nigin
August 25th, 2016, 2:14 pm
Forum: The Sandbox
Topic: Test
Replies: 31
Views: 22369

Re: Test

Ignore this. #C [[ AUTOSTART STEP 4 THEME 1 STARS AUTOFIT ]] x = 949, y = 1247, rule = B3/S23 552b2o$552bo$543bo6bobo$540b4o6b2o$531bo7b4o$530bobo6bo2bo$518b2o9bo3b 2o4b4o$518b2o9bo3b2o5b4o8b2o12b2o$529bo3b2o8bo8bo13b2o$530bobo17bobo$ 531bo18b2o$540bobo$541b2o$541bo3$537bo89b2o$537b2o26b3o59bo$536bo...
by Alexey_Nigin
August 17th, 2016, 1:25 pm
Forum: The Sandbox
Topic: Trivial requests
Replies: 19
Views: 9621

Re: Trivial requests

Here is a slightly less trivial reduction: x = 29, y = 66, rule = B3/S23 9bo$9b2o3$12bo$12b2o2$9bo$9b2o10$10b3o$10bo$9b3o4$20bo6b2o$20b2o6bo$ 27bo$17bo9b2o$3o14b2o$2bo$bo$20bo$20b2o$6bo$6b2o3$9bo$9b2o2$6bo$6b2o 10$7b3o$7bo$6b3o4$17bo6b2o$17b2o6bo$24bo$14bo9b2o$14b2o3$17bo$17b2o! I optimised for popu...
by Alexey_Nigin
August 15th, 2016, 4:00 am
Forum: The Sandbox
Topic: Open this link.
Replies: 15
Views: 7579

Re: open this link.

PHPBB12345 wrote:
muzik wrote:Why should we?
Fork.
And spoon. Seriously, this is starting to look like spam.
by Alexey_Nigin
August 11th, 2016, 4:32 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Thread for basic questions
Replies: 4725
Views: 1219639

Re: Thread for basic questions

muzik wrote:What is the smallest 1-cell-thick pattern that emits a non-glider spaceship?
See this.
by Alexey_Nigin
August 9th, 2016, 3:01 pm
Forum: The Sandbox
Topic: Help with names
Replies: 83
Views: 60590

Re: Help with names

I will give it a try. Professor The blocks look like eyes, the cells below them form a moustache and the cells above are like eyebrows. Who has big eyebrows and moustache? Professor! x = 9, y = 11, rule = B3/S23 b2o3b2o$o2bobo2bo$2obobob2o$3bobo$2obobob2o$2obobob2o$3bobo$3bobo$2obo bob2o$o2bobo2bo$b...
by Alexey_Nigin
August 9th, 2016, 7:41 am
Forum: The Sandbox
Topic: Open these links
Replies: 17
Views: 8851

Re: Open these links

:?: :?:
by Alexey_Nigin
August 7th, 2016, 2:41 pm
Forum: Patterns
Topic: Thread For Your Useless Discoveries
Replies: 4517
Views: 1750211

Re: Thread For Your Useless Discoveries

A 1 cell thick pattern evolves into a 1 cell thick pattern evolves into 2 beehives : x = 48, y = 1, rule = B3/S23 3ob6o3b6o2b6o2b6o3b6ob3o! Welcome to the forums! I like your pattern, and it seems that a paragraph of this wiki page now requires updating: A weaker problem is to find a unidimensional...
by Alexey_Nigin
August 6th, 2016, 7:12 am
Forum: Other Cellular Automata
Topic: Kgdm (B3/S2-c3-en4ceitz)
Replies: 5
Views: 4380

Re: Kgdm (B3/S2-c3-en4ceitz)

Here is a weird puffer:

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x = 4, y = 7, rule = Kgdm
b2o$2b2o$3o2$3o$2b2o$b2o!
Two Ts make a period 12 oscillator:

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x = 4, y = 7, rule = Kgdm
3o$bo4$2bo$b3o!
by Alexey_Nigin
July 29th, 2016, 7:34 am
Forum: Other Cellular Automata
Topic: tDryLife
Replies: 77
Views: 49743

Re: tDryLife

T to PP, maybe possible quadratic growth by joining a T-ship rake to MTEK? x = 23, y = 33, rule = B37/S2-i34q 13bo$12b2o$2bo9bo3bo$b2o8bo2bob2o$o2bo6b2o5bo$bo2bo5bo2bo2bo$bo2bo5b2o 4bo$2b3o7b2o$13bo7$10b2o5b2ob3o$9bo3bo2b2ob2obo$9b2o5b2obob2o$10b2o3bo bo$10bo2bo$11bob2o11$9bo$8b3o! Here you go: x =...
by Alexey_Nigin
July 21st, 2016, 4:45 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Thread for basic questions
Replies: 4725
Views: 1219639

Re: Thread for basic questions

And with the equivalent of a B0 transition in the rule, my suggestion of drawing a boundary around the pattern is not going to do very much good! While this exact thing will not work, there is a solution along similar lines. Instead of behaving like a constantly off cell, the new cell state should ...
by Alexey_Nigin
July 6th, 2016, 8:44 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: A Swansong
Replies: 7
Views: 5279

Re: A Swansong

Goodbye.
by Alexey_Nigin
July 5th, 2016, 5:08 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: apgsearch v3.1
Replies: 355
Views: 234544

Re: apgsearch v3.1

I'm curious. Does the presence of this haul mean Catagolue is (in principle) accepting hauls of less than 10k soups now? I seem to recall that used to be an absolute lower limit. Yes: I've modified Catagolue to accept hauls as long as they *either* have 10k soups or 250k objects. Presumably this wo...
by Alexey_Nigin
June 15th, 2016, 8:48 am
Forum: Patterns
Topic: Soup search results
Replies: 2588
Views: 1892714

Re: Soup search results

14-cell Unnecessarily Long Snake: x = 16, y = 16, rule = B3/S23 bobbobboooobbobb$ bbobbbbboobbbobb$ oobooooooboboboo$ obbbooobboobobob$ boboobbbbobbooob$ bobbbbbbbobboboo$ ooooobobobbbboob$ bobbbooooboobobb$ ooobobbbooooobbb$ obbbbboooobooobo$ oboboobobbobobbo$ ooooboboobbbbbbb$ oobbbboobboobobo$ ob...
by Alexey_Nigin
May 30th, 2016, 2:22 am
Forum: Other Cellular Automata
Topic: B2in3/S123a
Replies: 21
Views: 14945

Re: B2in3/S123a

I have switched to searching D4_x4 , D8_1 , and D8_4 . The results are below. Period 5 : x = 31, y = 31, rule = B2in3_S123a obbboobbboboobbobboobobbboobbbo$ bobbbobboobbbooooobbboobbobbbob$ bbbboobobbboobbbbboobbboboobbbb$ bbboooobbboobbooobboobbboooobbb$ oboobboooobobobbboboboooobboobo$ oooobboooob...
by Alexey_Nigin
May 29th, 2016, 7:01 am
Forum: Other Cellular Automata
Topic: B2in3/S123a
Replies: 21
Views: 14945

Re: B2in3/S123a

I am currently apgsearching D4_+2 and D4_x1 , and the search has already found a handful of new oscillators. Period 5 : x = 31, y = 31, rule = B2in3_S123a bbobbbboobbobobooobobobbbbobobb$ bboboobbbooooooooooobbbboobbobb$ ooobboooboobbbobbbbooobbbbboooo$ bbboooboobbobooobbobobobooboobb$ boboobbbbobbo...
by Alexey_Nigin
April 29th, 2016, 5:29 am
Forum: The Sandbox
Topic: RLE problem
Replies: 2
Views: 2273

Re: RLE problem

and a newline has to be added every 70 [characters] It is a bit more complicated than that. You should not put a line break in the middle of an expression like "2b". In your case, the best thing to do is to put a line break before this expression, which will give a 69-char line. Having lines that a...
by Alexey_Nigin
April 21st, 2016, 7:02 am
Forum: Patterns
Topic: Very Low Expansion Factor?
Replies: 55
Views: 41146

Re: Very Low Expansion Factor?

I haven't done the math, but at least I get the idea. You mean that the block is pushed by salvos B multiple times, don't you? Yes. Do you mean the salvos B are spaced ,say, 300 gens apart in one cycle and 600 gens in the next? No. I intend to make different sawtooths with different spacings and di...
by Alexey_Nigin
April 21st, 2016, 6:24 am
Forum: Patterns
Topic: Very Low Expansion Factor?
Replies: 55
Views: 41146

Re: Very Low Expansion Factor?

What you are describing seems like a parabolic sawtooth . Edit: Some details are different, but I think the main scheme and e.f. being arbitrarily close to 1 looked the same. My design is of course heavily based on parabolic sawtooth. However, the expansion factor of parabolic sawtooth is equal to ...
by Alexey_Nigin
April 21st, 2016, 6:05 am
Forum: Patterns
Topic: Very Low Expansion Factor?
Replies: 55
Views: 41146

Very Low Expansion Factor?

I think it is possible to create a sawtooth with expansion factor arbitrarily close to 1. ---- Consider a pattern that has some complicated mechanism X in the SE and a single block in the NW. X shoots a salvo A that interacts with the block and produces a SE-heading glider C . This salvo may optiona...