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How does the apgcode syntax code work?
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Alternatively yl111_2_3_444 are encoded so that:
111 is the amount of generations for the population plot to repeat, that's why there are yl1's in some non-b2a rules.
2 has something to do with the period of the ash
3 is the population of the ash, I ...

Can this be stabilized? It would be fun to see alien switch engines, but none have appeared in apgsearch (probably due to the brittleness of this variant): Any other transitions that leave the main switch engine engine intact?

Wanted to ntzfind this rule, but:
XXXXX ~/ntzfind
$ ./ntzfind-setup b3-y4ceijry5k6ci7cs2-i3-aek5cj6cn

XXXXX ~/ntzfind
$ gcc ntzfind.c -O3 -o ntzfind
In file included from ntzfind.c:12:0:
step.c: In function ‘stepcell’:
step.c:2:1588: error: expected expression before ‘)’ token

{giant mass of ...

Are there any variant rulestrings that people have typed, or might actually type, by accident in good faith, that could result in their hauls going off into an annoying separate bin somewhere? Like b3-s23 (negative but no letters afterward) or s23b3, anything along those lines?
"D4 +4" was a ...

Mucked around with Nico Brown's search program(s) that I recently re-found in my PMs to get some oscillators:
x = 96, y = 114, rule = B3-ck7e/S23-cr4q6c
10b2ob2ob2o15bo23bo$10b2ob2ob2o14b2o23b2o$31bo3bo19bo3bo$16b2o12b2o3b
2o17b2o3b2o$16b2o19bo15bo$32b2o3b2o13b2o7b2o$10b2ob2ob2o15bo28bo$10b2o ...

Can someone modify nbsearch1 to make a separate layer and save all the unique results there?

muzik wrote:Also, here's the period 68 oscillator with the lowest known period:

https://catagolue.appspot.com/census/b2 ... D2_+1/xp68

What the freaking hell? Why is that there? Spooky o.o

Saka wrote:Can you explain script 1? I'm curious about "start"

Just enter 0, I'm pretty sure it's some sort of 'checkpoint' system.

Is this p18 in B36/S237 known?:

Don't know where else to put these, but glider_rider shared these privately with me and allowed me to show them publicly. They find oscillators in certain symmetries:

Script #1:
import golly as g
import math

rule=g.getstring("Rule:","B3/S23")
algo=g.getstring("Algorithm:","QuickLife")

max_period ...

I would like to publicly come out and apologize for any of my postings prior to around my 15th birthday (7/30/17) because they were really terrible and I cringe looking back on them. I gave the mods a hard time, especially codeholic, and they didn't really deserve it. I had a foul mouth because I ...

Woah, that sawtooth is amazing! Here's a bounding box reduction:
x = 42, y = 17, rule = B2ce3-ir4a5y/S2-c3-y
13bo19bo$13bo19bo$12bobo17bobo5$2bo3b3o9b3o$2o5bo2bobobobo2bo$2bo3b3o
9b3o3$37bo$38bobo$12bobo17bobo6bo$13bo19bo4bobo$13bo19bo3bo!

Here's the 'weird'/2x variant, it hits 45 cells at 0,512 ...

what's that weird derpy looking guy with horns that replaces os with 9s

What would it take to run a search where a glider hits 2-5 still lifes (with honey farms and fleets and bakeries, and 3/4 honey farms and 1/2 honey farms as well. No oscillators) and releases a glider and makes the debris reform but moved a bit? Kind of like HBK . Then they could be rubbed together ...

1-cell reduction to the sawtooth using the 2-stage eater's 3-cell phase, instead of the 4-cell normal eater:
x = 132, y = 128, rule = B2ce3-ir4a5y/S2-c3-y
84bobo$50bobo32bo$51bo33bo$51bo9$82bobobobo$48bobobobo5$82bobobobo$48b
obobobo6$85bo$51bo32bobo$50bobo31bobo$50bobo31bobo$50bobo27bo4bo$51bo ...

mniemiec wrote:"x would take infeasibly long to brute-force separate"

The problem with that is that some rules have lots of those error messages (B2ce3ai/S1c23-a, Movostill 2, etc.), so I feel like it may cause problems searching those rules, any ideas on how to add an option to disable this?

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AbhpzTa wrote:@drc
New thread?

if you would like

Here's a gun:

x=35, y=38
4b2o$5bo$5bobo$6b2o2b2o$10b2o7$o$3o7b2o$3bo6bobo$2bobo7bo$2b2o6bobo$10b2o$2b
2o$2bo$3b3o$5bo$8b2o$9bo$6b3o14b3o$6bo15bo3bo$21bo5bo$13b2o6bo5bo$13b2o6b
3ob3o$31b2o$31bobo$12b2o19bo$13bo19b2o$10b3o16b2o$10bo13bo4bo$23bobobobo$22b
ob2ob2o$22bo$21b2o!

Edit: slightly smaller ...

(Sorry for all the threads lately >.< I just think this rule is cool.)
B2ce3-ir4a5y/S2-c3-y is pretty interesting. It has a failed replicator that turns into two spaceships and a p2 oscillator:
x = 5, y = 3, rule = B2ce3-ir4a5y/S2-c3-y
b3o$o3bo$b3o!

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Can't post a pattern collection at the moment,but B2ce3-ir4a5y/S2-c3-y is really cool. It has all sorts of wonky spaceships of several velocities, weird oscillators, and a p48 failed replicator that turns into two sparky spaceships. There's also a p24 gun I made out of p2 conduits and said failed ...

What is this 'magic sauce?':
$ ./recompile.sh --rule b2ce3-ir4a5ys2-c3-y --symmetry C1
Skipping updates; use --update to update apgluxe automatically.
Not a git repository; skipping updates...
Configuring rule b2ce3-ir4a5ys2-c3-y; symmetry C1
Compressing 512-bit lookup table for rule b2ce3-ir4a5ys2 ...

The p52 I posted is adjustable: p52+14n (n>=0) x = 35, y = 33, rule = B3-ck7e/S23-cr4q6c
6bo$2o3b2o11b2o$2o4bo11b2o8$6bo8bo$2o3b2o7bobo6b2o$2o4bo8bo7b2o8$6bo8b
o4bo$2o3b2o7bobo2bobo6b2o$2o4bo8bo4bo7b2o8$6bo8bo4bo4bo$2o3b2o7bobo2bo
bo2bobo6b2o$2o4bo8bo4bo4bo7b2o!
We can make almost a p52+14n gun ...