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[b-engine]

L141 (or Lx141? idk)

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x = 28, y = 32, rule = B3/S23
o$3o21b2o$3bo20bobo$2b2o22bo$26b2o$24b2o$23bobo$24bo3$22b2o$22b2o2$bo
$bobo$b3o$3bo5$5bo$4bobo$5bo5$8b2o$9bo$6b3o$6bo!

It's L141. If it's Lx141 then this would be a herschel track instead:

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x = 70, y = 70, rule = B3/S23
25bo$23b3o$22bo$22b2o$42bo$40b3o$39bo3b2o$39b2o2bobo$26bo17bo3b2o$25b
obo20b2o$26bo10$8b2o$8b2o$66b2o$66bobo$7bo60bo$6bobo51bo7b2o$6b2o51bo
bo$4b2o54bo$5bo22b2o10b2o$5bobo20bo10bobo$6b2o21b3o7bo$31bo6b2o7$30b2o
6bo$30bo7b3o21b2o$28bobo10bo20bobo$28b2o10b2o22bo$9bo54b2o$8bobo51b2o
$2o7bo51bobo$bo60bo$bobo$2b2o$60b2o$60b2o2$39bo$39bobo$39b3o$41bo5$43b
o$20b2o20bobo$20b2o3bo17bo$24bobo2b2o$25b2o3bo$27b3o$27bo$46b2o$47bo$
44b3o$44bo!

[b-engine]

Half-blockade fuse:

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x = 53, y = 61, rule = B3/S23

If this fuse didn't displace at wrong displacement then we would had a new potential speed…
EDIT:

My first ever salvo-thing (?). 25G-to-G

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I think I can append some gliders to this to clean up the mess

This is off topic. A catalyst must returns to it's original position and direction after catalysis, and in general only catalysis an active region.
Slow salvos constructions aren't belonged to the thread.

[Tawal]

…
In general, it would be helpful if people gave a very brief description of how their patterns were found. Something as simple as "by hand", or "with X search program", or "completed a partial by so-and-so" would do.

I'll take that comment personally too

[C28]

family is overrated as heck. why am I supposed to love an adult woman who couldn't even be bothered to raise her child right? just because she gave birth to me? why should I bother to hug a man who tells me that my problems are all my fault? because he's my father? why am I supposed to be nice to someone who violated me and then accused me of being the "aggressor" 7 years afterwards? because me and her have the same parents? it goes against everything i know about having a healthy connection with someone and I feel so stupid for thinking that my family actually cared. maybe the whole "your family cares about you" thing was just a very long running joke that flew over my head, it wouldn't be the first time

[hotdogPi]

If your sister really did that to you when you were ten, something is really wrong with her.

[Anivec]

Every time I see this chucklebait stator variant, I want to bang my head against the wall. This is probably the ugliest variant you could use.

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x = 10, y = 9, rule = B3/S23
6bo$5bobo$b2obobo$obobobobo$o4bobobo$b4o2bobo$7b2o$b2o$b2o!

[b-engine]

I've seen the downside of using RLE to encode checkerboards, so I decide to improve it.

If there's a certain repeating text, you can put it in brackets then add a number before it:

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# optimized as 10(ob)!
obobobobobobobobobob!

You can put the optimized text in another brackets too:

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# optimized as 16(16(ob)$)!
x = 15, y = 16, rule = B3/S23
obobobobobobobo$obobobobobobobo$obobobobobobobo$obobobobobobobo$obobo
bobobobobo$obobobobobobobo$obobobobobobobo$obobobobobobobo$obobobobob
obobo$obobobobobobobo$obobobobobobobo$obobobobobobobo$obobobobobobobo
$obobobobobobobo$obobobobobobobo$obobobobobobobo!

For true checkerboards the optimized RLE will look like this:

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# optimized as 8(16(ob)$16(bo))!
x = 16, y = 16, rule = B3/S23
obobobobobobobo$bobobobobobobobo$obobobobobobobo$bobobobobobobobo$obo
bobobobobobo$bobobobobobobobo$obobobobobobobo$bobobobobobobobo$obobob
obobobobo$bobobobobobobobo$obobobobobobobo$bobobobobobobobo$obobobobo
bobobo$bobobobobobobobo$obobobobobobobo$bobobobobobobobo!

[Value1]

I wish metacells were this easy... found while watching some physics video: https://youtu.be/DoCYY9sa2kU?t=431

[Aleph]

I tried generalizing the idea of columns and full diagonals to oblique spaceships and this is apparently the logical conclusion???

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[Citation needed]

ColorfulGalaxy was planning to bring a gift to welcome the Neography staff back to their wiki.

[Aleph]

I am genuinely surprised that the LeapLife billiard tables ranked last in OCADOTY. Though I should have made it clear that this wasn't about the billiard tables themselves and about a "new" search tool (LeapLife hack for dr). At the same time, there has to be something that places last in stuff like this.

[confocaloid]

It feels odd that there are no previous occurrences of 'lifehack', 'lifehacks', 'life hack', 'life hacks' on this forum.

[Aleph]

I'm just taking the scripts in https://conwaylife.com/wiki/Talk:Catago ... 256,_32x32 and attaching them here because it's taking up way too much space on the talk page.
EDIT: Fixed broken file(s)

[Sokwe]

When describing a diagonal width, it seems standard to refer to the number of half diagonals, so the c/3d ships would be w13, and the c/4d ship would be w10. If you want to reduce ambiguity, you can say these are "diagonal widths" or say "width 10 hd" or "10 half-diagonals" or something similar.

My question is what the equivalent unit would then be for oblique ships.

There is no standard for describing the oblique width of an obliquely traveling spaceship. There is however a standard for diagonal widths of diagonally traveling ships. If you want to use a non-standard measure, I suggest including something that identifies it (like how including units in real world measurements indicates the measuring system).

I tried generalizing the idea of columns and full diagonals to oblique spaceships and this is apparently the logical conclusion???

I don't see why the cells in the (2,1) displacement represent 2 "lanes". What would 1 lane look like? It would be helpful if you explain how you get 2 lanes for an arbitrary displacement. I also don't understand why the width of the segments in the (2,1) case is 0.41 instead of 0.4 = 2/5. It seems the 2 lanes are split into 5 equal segments.

[Aleph]

I don't see why the cells in the (2,1) displacement represent 2 "lanes". What would 1 lane look like? It would be helpful if you explain how you get 2 lanes for an arbitrary displacement.

1 lane isn't exactly defined here. I just observed that a displacement of (2,0) was usually considered to be two columns, and that a displacement of (2,2) was usually considered to be two full diagonals. It felt intuitive that a displacement of (2,1) should still be two of SOMETHING; I decided to use "lane" for lack of better words.

I also don't understand why the width of the segments in the (2,1) case is 0.41 instead of 0.4 = 2/5. It seems the 2 lanes are split into 5 equal segments.

Because the text was supposed to say "0.4l" instead of "0.41" and I didn't exactly choose the best color for the text, making it unclear.

[Sokwe]

I don't see why the cells in the (2,1) displacement represent 2 "lanes". What would 1 lane look like? It would be helpful if you explain how you get 2 lanes for an arbitrary displacement.

1 lane isn't exactly defined here. I just observed that a displacement of (2,0) was usually considered to be two columns, and that a displacement of (2,2) was usually considered to be two full diagonals. It felt intuitive that a displacement of (2,1) should still be two of SOMETHING; I decided to use "lane" for lack of better words.

How do you define two lanes for an arbitrary displacement (x,y)?

[Aleph]

How do you define two lanes for an arbitrary displacement (x,y)?

...I don't exactly do so. But I can say that a displacement (x,0) is x columns and that a displacement of (x,x) is x full diagonals, so for 0<y<x, I'd consider a displacement of (x,y) to be x lanes.

[tommyaweosme]

another post on my way to reply to every sandbox post on the first page (just to fling me to 500 posts)

I don't see why the cells in the (2,1) displacement represent 2 "lanes". What would 1 lane look like? It would be helpful if you explain how you get 2 lanes for an arbitrary displacement.

1 lane isn't exactly defined here. I just observed that a displacement of (2,0) was usually considered to be two columns, and that a displacement of (2,2) was usually considered to be two full diagonals. It felt intuitive that a displacement of (2,1) should still be two of SOMETHING; I decided to use "lane" for lack of better words.

How do you define two lanes for an arbitrary displacement (x,y)?

the way it interacts with two blocks placed (x,y)

[hotdogPi]

You've posted over 100 times since the beginning of last Sunday. You really need to slow down and only post when you're actually contributing something. Rushing to make as many posts as possible while sacrificing quality is not the way to go.

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[tommyaweosme]

i have an amazing idea but i dont want to spoil it before my 500th post

what do you do in my situation?

[dvgrn]

i have an amazing idea but i dont want to spoil it before my 500th post

what do you do in my situation?

Be patient. Slow down. Definitely don't ever post just to inflate your post count. That's a misuse of the forums, even in the Sandbox, and it tends to annoy everyone else who is using the threads that you're posting on.

[confocaloid]

quoting myself

[...]
The most important thing to be documented is knowledge, rather than common usage. LifeWiki aims to be an encyclopedia of Life-CA-related knowledge, rather than a glossary of common words and phrases.
"Existing usage" that can be observed on the forums cannot be reliably documented, because it is often confusing, counterintuitive, and/or self-contradictory.
As a place to document knowledge, LifeWiki should fix, define, explain and consistently use some sane, intuitively clear, easily understood terminology, regardless of whether or not that terminology matches "existing common usage".
[...]

[hotdogPi]

Looks like hotcrystal0 caught dvgrn multiposting. viewtopic.php?f=7&t=6538#p186168

[Haycat2009]

Is Minecraft blockic? In Minecraft, everything is made of blocks.

Also, how on earth should a L141 loop be made?

[confocaloid]

[...]
Also, how on earth should a L141 loop be made?

Here (trivially modified from the p564 oscillator by iNoMed, still p564):

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x = 70, y = 70, rule = B3/S23
25bo38bo$23b3o36b3o$22bo38bo$22b2o6b2o29b2o$28bobo$27bo5bo$28bo3b2o6bo
2b2o$38b3o2bobo$26bo3bobo4bo6bo3b2o$25bobo3bo5b2o9b2o$26bo3$8b2o$9bo$
9bobo$10b2o$28bobo15b3o$28bo2bo16bo$24b2obo2bo16bo$8b2o14bo2bo$8b2o15b
2o$25b2o39b2o$66bobo$7bo60bo$6bobo51bo7b2o$6b2o51bobo$60bo3bo$28b2o10b
2o22bo$6b2o20bo10bobo22b3o$7bo21b3o7bo25b2o$7bobo21bo6b2o20b3o2b2o$8b
2o52b3o$62b3o2$6bo$6bo$6b3o51b2o$7b2obo19b2o6bo21bobo$2b3o2b2obo2bo16b
o7b3o21bo$4b3o5bo15bobo10bo20b2o$4b3o21b2o10b2o$9bo$8bobo51b2o$2o7bo
51bobo$bo60bo$bobo$2b2o39b2o$42bo2bo14b2o$45b2o13b2o$40bo3b2o$21bo17bo
4bo$21bobo15b3o$21b2o35b2o$58bobo$60bo$60b2o2$15b2o$16bo26bo$13b3o4b2o
9b2o9bobo$13bo6b2o3bo6bo5b2o3bo$24bobo2b3o4bobo$25b2o2bo5bo5bo$36bo3b
2o2$38bobo5b2o$39bo7bo$44b3o$44bo!