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I apologize if this has already been raised. Looks like you cannot LOOP a pattern that dies in gen 0, e.g. Dot. Any workaround?

muzik wrote: March 10th, 2023, 3:22 pm iPad Air 4th generation running 16.3.1. I don't really have any browsers other than Safari.

So...same browser. Same iOS. I don't have an iPad to test with (darn). What the heck could be different?

Have you used PatMan on the iPad before successfully? I'm grasping at straws,

I don't seem to be able to access any patterns manually on iOS? The random pattern works fine in each collection, but going to individual patterns via drop-down menus just doesn't do anything.

Seems to all work fine on my iphone in chrome and safari. So I'm puzzled.

When tapping on one of ...

I don't seem to be able to access any patterns manually on iOS? The random pattern works fine in each collection, but going to individual patterns via drop-down menus just doesn't do anything.

Also, it might be worth updating build 898 to build 945: https://conwaylife.com/forums/styles/prosilver ...

It might be a good idea to have an alternative way of automatically putting pages into categories, without necessarily having an infobox (or without necessarily having a visible infobox).
Would it be a good idea to create an alternative invisible template for adding automatic categories?
Would it ...

1. Integer construction using Life Digits now has a wiki article

2. "Integer to Life Digits RLE" has been added to my toolkit: https://golhobby.com/; this also lets you enter an integer and instantly see what it produces in LifeViewer

rattlesnake wrote: February 16th, 2023, 6:39 pm @Book What is the meaning of this post?

I was hoping someone would be inspired to complete the gag...

PatMan 1.4 is now available at https://golhobby.com/patman/ .

What's new:

Alan Hensel Collection: lifebc and lifep
Support for Life 1.05 and 1.06 (the heavy lifting is thanks to the LifeViewer js plugin); just change the file extension from .lif to .txt, as with all PatMan collections

You can ...

rowett wrote: February 15th, 2023, 2:22 am Thanks for reporting! Will be fixed in the next release.

Thanks. How to know when the next release is available?

can we substantiate this "did you know"...that there are over 35.4 billion distinct strict still lifes with 34 or fewer cells?

This is from Alan Hensel's lifebc collection. It is the only RLE in that collection that the viewer does not like. The pattern works if the comments after the ! are removed, but such comments are also present in the other RLEs in the collection.

x = 187, y = 206, skip = 5, fps = 40
141boo$141bo ...

rattlesnake wrote: February 14th, 2023, 6:27 pm Should we add (23,5)c/79 Herschel climber to Boat-crawling crawlers:

A climber and a crawler walk into a bar...

Is there a way to get more frequent updates to wiki-names.txt? (https://gitlab.com/apgoucher/catagolue/ ... -names.txt)? I seem to recall this is generated by someone running something at the wiki end. It appears that last update was a year ago.

Please vote in as big numbers as possible because I think this is a topic worth discussing if I'm to be here comfortably. Will stop signing 'til then and gonna remove it from the signature too 'til the poll ends.


For many years, I had a close friend who, when I asked a question like this, would ...

From the wiki polyplet article: "King-wise connectivity is a more natural concept in Life-like cellular automata than the orthogonal connectivity of polyominoes." By natural, does this mean the wiki def of natural?

Can we substantiate: "The smallest predecessor to the clock that doesn't contain a clock itself has eight cells." (wiki clock article)

The purpose of the collection is to have at least one example for each n. I will gladly add these and others anyone contributes.

Aha! Don't know how that got there, but I just removed it. So you actually found two bugs. Thanks.

I assume you mean the list box overlapping the viewer. Fixed, thanks for reporting.

xp0_book traffic light

squareroot12621 wrote: February 4th, 2023, 1:42 pm Are these the maximally dense still lives for every bounding box up to 7×7?

There are more. See some examples here: Density.

I'd like to suggest that a "crotchet ship" entry be added to the wiki since I have used it a lot recently. I have provided some starting information for such an entry, if anyone thinks it is a good idea and wants to polish it up. Otherwise don't worry about it ...

Featured article blurb for glider says discovery was 1970, article says 1969

Bullet51 wrote: January 18th, 2023, 11:02 pm The black cells in the Walrus image are misaligned.

fixed

Sokwe wrote: January 19th, 2023, 4:38 am This appears to be an issue stemming from RLE2PNG. Each on cell is placed one pixel too high, so it overlaps part of the border while leaving a white line at the bottom of the cell.

Should be fixed now. Walrus img has been redone and uploaded.