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by GTP
September 11th, 2014, 9:36 am
Forum: Patterns
Topic: Thread For Your Accidental Discoveries
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Re: Thread For Your Accidental Discoveries

Ok, I think that calcyman has solved the mystery. I'll fix my program :D
by GTP
September 11th, 2014, 9:30 am
Forum: Patterns
Topic: Thread For Your Accidental Discoveries
Replies: 2383
Views: 1715116

Re: New spaceship detected?

You're not running NaiveLife, are you? (The one where you update cells sequentially in rows from left-to-right then top-to-bottom, rather than updating all cells simultaneously.)
Yes, this is exactly the way I update cells in my program. Do you think this is the explanation for the spaceship I ...
by GTP
September 10th, 2014, 8:30 am
Forum: Patterns
Topic: Thread For Your Accidental Discoveries
Replies: 2383
Views: 1715116

Re: Thread For Your Accidental Discoveries

You won't find such a spaceship on pentadecathlon.com, because your program clearly isn't running the standard rules for Conway's Life
Hmmm, I intended to use the B3/S23 rule... So it appears that I did a mistake somewhere in my source code? I just did a quick check but seems ok, I'll do a deeper ...
by GTP
September 9th, 2014, 1:08 pm
Forum: Patterns
Topic: Thread For Your Accidental Discoveries
Replies: 2383
Views: 1715116

New spaceship detected?

Hi everyone!
I'm new to this forum and to Conway's Game of Life in general. Some days ago I've coded my own implementation of the Game of Life (using the original rulestring) for fun and yesterday I was doing some simulations. In the last of them I put some cells randomly and after a while I saw a ...