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[confocaloid]

Thank you! I will do my best not to submission-spam.

Before submission, consider formatting glider guns according to conventions of Dieter and Peter's glider gun collection.

(The gliders should travel to the lower right. The width should be greater than or equal to height. The pattern should be in the last phase before a glider leaves the bounding box.)

The width and height are measured for the bounding-box-across-all-phases-ignoring-output-gliders. An output glider is deleted as soon as (a) it is fully formed and (b) it will never interact with the gun again.

[Tawal]

How to use "Tags" when my comment corresponds to another thread ?

For example, I posted in Oscillator Discussion Thread for a general comment.
I just edited the title of my post.
The best thing would be to have a link back to the appropriate topic.

Thanks

[tommyaweosme]

Rule:Tireworld is non-notable. The same holds for many other rulefiles you posted to the wiki:
https://conwaylife.com/w/index.php?targ ... tributions

i have very, very faded memories of, at the very start of my conways game of life career, someone telling me that they upload ruletables all the time. i guess i kind of hard-coded that into myself without knowing if i was allowed to or not. i guess i never checked the notability rules for ruletables.

But I want to use these rules in the life viewer.

you can either put the rule table after the pattern, like this:

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x = 166, y = 3, rule = RuleName
A2.B2.A2.B2.A2.B2.A2.B2.A2.B2.A2.B2.A2.B2.A2.B2.A2.B2.A2.B2.A2.B2.A2.
B2.A2.B2.A2.B2.A2.B2.A2.B2.A2.B2.A2.B2.A2.B2.A2.B2.A2.B2.A2.B2.A2.B2.
A2.B2.A2.B2.A2.B2.A2.B2.A2.B$A2.B2.A2.B2.A2.B2.A2.B2.A2.B2.A2.B2.A2.B
2.A2.B2.A2.B2.A2.B2.A2.B2.A2.B2.A2.B2.A2.B2.A2.B2.A2.B2.A2.B2.A2.B2.A
2.B2.A2.B2.A2.B2.A2.B2.A2.B2.A2.B2.A2.B2.A2.B2.A2.B2.A2.B$A2.B2.A2.B2.
A2.B2.A2.B2.A2.B2.A2.B2.A2.B2.A2.B2.A2.B2.A2.B2.A2.B2.A2.B2.A2.B2.A2.
B2.A2.B2.A2.B2.A2.B2.A2.B2.A2.B2.A2.B2.A2.B2.A2.B2.A2.B2.A2.B2.A2.B2.
A2.B2.A2.B2.A2.B!



@RULE RuleName
@COLORS

0   0   0   0
1 255 255 255
2   0 100 255
@TABLE
n_states:3
neighborhood:Moore
symmetries:permute
var l0 = {1,2}
var a0 = {0,1,2}
var d0 = {0}
var l1 = l0
var a1 = a0
var d1 = d0
var l2 = l1
var l3 = l1
var l4 = l1
var l5 = l1
var l6 = l1
var l7 = l1
var l8 = l1
var l9 = l1
var a2 = a1
var a3 = a1
var a4 = a1
var a5 = a1
var a6 = a1
var a7 = a1
var a8 = a1
var a9 = a1
var d2 = d1
var d3 = d1
var d4 = d1
var d5 = d1
var d6 = d1
var d7 = d1
var d8 = d1
var d9 = d1
var b1 = {0,2}
var b2 = b1
var b3 = b1
var b4 = b1
var b5 = b1
0, l1,l1,l3,d4,d5,d6,d7,d8, l1
0,  1, 1, 1,l4,l5,d6,d7,d8, 2
0,  2, 2, 2,l4,l5,d6,d7,d8, 1
1, a1,d2,d3,d4,d5,d6,d7,d8, 0
1, l1,l2,l3,l4,a5,a6,a7,a8, 0
2, a1,d2,d3,d4,d5,d6,d7,d8, 0
2, l1,l2,l3,l4,a5,a6,a7,a8, 0

or make the lifewiki page Rule:RuleName.
I hope this helped! I have so much fun making (absolutely useless) rules, it would be a shame if another person couldn't use theirs!

there it is

i found the memory

[DroneBetter]

Either this thread or the "Basic questions" thread seems like a reasonable choice -- Catagolue isn't really the conwaylife.com website, but it's linked to in the header anyway!

(there is no Catagolue support thread, and this seems more right than the one for questions about Life as a CA)

since its first revision, the Period-7 sparkers page has described 37P7.1 as being "used in the smallest period-126 glider gun" with a Catagolue link, but the gun_126 to which it links does not currently use it, is there any means by which one might find the history of a specific gun period's successive reductions without trawling through the Gitlab jobs so that the version that was smallest on December 29, 2021 can be linked to as an xp0 instead?

[confocaloid]

[...] is there any means by which one might find the history of a specific gun period's successive reductions without trawling through the Gitlab jobs [...] ?

Some combination of the following may help:
o Wiki edit history (when the claim was added?)
o Catagolue census backups (which are automatic for b3s23 AFAIK)
o Binary search over Catagolue job logs, once you know the time
o Forum search over gun-related threads, where many former/current record holders are posted

I'm not on Discord, hence I have no idea whether there are relevant places to look through there.

[...] so that the version that was smallest on December 29, 2021 can be linked to as an xp0 instead?

"xp0" links are undocumented/nonstandard, and should be avoided. A better way of giving some specific pattern is to provide the RLE of that pattern. On a wiki page, it is possible to show a pattern in an embedded viewer, with a specific orientation, in a specific phase, with a caption/brief explanation, and with a footnote linking to the source/place to read more.