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There are now several dedicated tools, some of which are variants of others, like symmetric CatForce and various versions of hotdogPi's spark search script .

Looks like you joined the ConwayLife Lounge Discord server today. That's where a lot of the plotting and planning and custom adjusting of ...

How are new oscillators usually found?
Is it mainly by manual exploration and exhaustive search with apgsearch ?
Or are there dedicated tools ?

(was not sure if it's a question for here or the oscillator thread)

thanks, this is useful, i can start from there
I don't really want all the patterns, I just would have liked about ~100 oscillators per period up to p=~20 to train some machine learning thing

Is there an efficient way to use lifelib with full numpy arrays ?
I mean input/output a pattern as a array of 1s and 0s and ?

Is there a way to download a catagolue dump of all the patterns, or some repository containing rle's for ~1000s of different oscillators ?

Sorry I don't really get why developing a list interpreter ? Why not a compiler ?

woodrush wrote: January 27th, 2022, 12:09 pm I already have an idea of how to write a compiler for compiling the C code to the architecture's assembly code, so I consider that's already covered.

That would already be super cool !

Hi, there is an updated version of my computer that can handle up to 256 lines of ROM and 128x32 bit RAM :
https://github.com/nicolasloizeau/scalable-gol-computer
I advise using this one rather than the old 8 bit computer since it's also a bit smaller for the same size.
It can be programmed using ...

I see on the news that it's a 8bit computer but it actually works up to 32 bits. Here is a pattern that display Fibonacci sequence on 32 bits:

erictom333 wrote: October 14th, 2021, 10:26 pm Try flipping the first GGG and see what you can do from there.

What do you mean ? The first gun is not part of the relevant pattern

I think one of the major bottleneck in this computer is the size of this particular p60 90° glider duplicator.

x = 236, y = 210, rule = B3/S23
23$49bo$47bobo$46bobo17bo$35b2o8bo2bo16b2o$35bobo8bobo15b2o4b2o$22bobo
13bo8bobo13b3o4b2o2b2o$21bo2bo2b2o6bo2bo10bo4bobo7b2o4b2o2b2o$20b2o5bo ...

I was wondering, would it be possible in theory to enlarge the display to an arbitrary size or is it restricted to 32x32?

For the moment the size is fixed to 32*32. Size could be arbitrary. I could spend some time adding larger display options if it's motivated. I chose 32*32 because for bigger ...

Hi ! I made a new programmable computer. It's based on my former 8-bit programmable computer . New features and improvements are:
- Scalability : 90 pre-computed patterns are available. Max program size is 256 lines. Max number of variables if 128. Variable size range from 8 to 32.
- new ...

Hi!
I made a GUI to build p60 glider logic circuits:
https://github.com/nicolasloizeau/guigl
- run "python guigl" to draw you circuit using the GUI. (It will generate a blocks.txt file which is used by make.py)
- run the Golly script make.py to make the life pattern
This is the same glider logic ...

Actually there is also a Github repo :
https://github.com/nicolasloizeau/gol-computer

Hi!
What are your tools to find predecessors of a pattern?
Has anyone coded a predecessor finder for small patterns?
Thanks!

Hi,
I made an in-game simulated elementary cellular automaton.
Here the file and a python script which generates an elementary cellular automaton for any rule:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-4kRw ... sp=sharing
A video example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iHRAKn9Fhg

Hi,
I made an english document that summarizes the functioning of my in-game computer:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B-4kR ... UJZWTlOMTg

Yes blah... I forgoted shifts...
There is enough space for 3 more instructions
I'll add them later, has I sad before I haven't my personal computer with me these days

-- How come the 16 bit flickers on for a moment just before the 88M mark, by the way (starting at 87867000, gone by 87946000)? Looks like there's a leftover signal stream that hasn't quite been cleared yet when the "print" signal goes through -- but it cleans itself up very nicely.


Does it ...

Ho... Strange, I don't remember having any issue with simeks's program.
Does it come from the computer ? Perhaps it is just very slow?

Ok, sorry gameoflifemaniac,

Hi
@gameoflifemaniac: you can do it yourself, you just have to copy simeks's code into the assembly.py script then run it with golly
@blah: installing python is not difficult at all, you just have to download an installer and click... I am not with my computer these days so you can do it yourself I ...

Yes, you're right about memory spaces

The items in the ROM are 21bits:
4 bits for the instruction
3 bits for the write address
3 bits for one read address
3 bits for another read address
8 bits for data to write to the RAM

Yes, only the 5 least significant bits are used for the program counter ...

Hey,
I made an in-game 8bit programmable computer
the computer, logic gates and programming instructions are here:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B-4kRwE7luROR1VHclhJUUF3Qnc

a video of the computer computing Fibonacci seqence:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8unMqSp0bFY

it is only composed of ...

ho! thank you musik!