The Hunt for a Tiny Diagonal Spaceship (Unsuccessful)

[Hdjensofjfnen]

Did I call #192 yet? Probably not. Well, now I will.

[Hdjensofjfnen]

#192 has turned up empty. Taking #167.

[Bullet51]

Now I am searching #17-32, #145-160 and #241-256.

Finished with no notable results.

[skomick]

#11 through #20 complete with no results. Searching #102 through #115.

[Hdjensofjfnen]

#167 has finished, no results.

Taking #169 and #201.

[dsmiller]

I finished #90 through #97, and #100 with no results.

I 'll search #78, and #84 through #89 next.

[Hdjensofjfnen]

Taking #33-36!

[Hdjensofjfnen]

#169 and #201 resulted in no results.

[skomick]

#102-#104 and #113-#115 complete with only p5 and blinker results. Searching #116-#129.

[drc]

#249-255 with nothing to note

[BlinkerSpawn]

Will run #55 and #56 soon.

[thunk]

#161-164, and multiway #202 (that is, 3217-3232/4096) finished with negative results.
#165, #166, #170, and #173 have also finished with negative results (except one octagon+blinker combination).
#58-63 and #168 are also empty.

#225-240 (in the form of 57-60/64) are now running on the laptop, and #203-215 (102-107/128, and 215/256) on the desktop.

That's all, folks!

[biggiemac]

d 14/32, 24/32, 25/32 and 28/32 all returned handfuls of p2 + p5 combinations but nothing more. I think we figured that corresponds to 105-112, 185-200 and 217-224.

[skomick]

#116 through #129 search complete, nothing but p5xp2.I'll see where we're at Monday before I choose more to search.

[thunk]

#203-215 are now complete, with no results except for the usual blinker-octagon combinations.

Laptop results are now in for #57-60/64 (probably equivalent to #225-240/256).

As usual, no interesting results were reported, except for one heart in #58:

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......***.
......**..
.....*..**
...*.....*
.....***.*
..*.*..*..
**..*.*...
**..**....
*.*.......
..***.....

[Alexey_Nigin]

Cool, that's a pretty rare pattern:

https://catagolue.appspot.com/object/xp ... 069c/b3s23

[BlinkerSpawn]

search d 28/128 found nothing.

[dsmiller]

#78 and #84 through #89 are complete, with no results.

[NoLongerBreathedIn]

Shucks. Only 21 per 0x100 left, and no luck. This means there probably will never be a result.

[drc]

Shucks. Only 21 per 0x100 left, and no luck. This means there probably will never be a result.

you never know

[Hdjensofjfnen]

One of the final results to be in:

CopperSearch version 0.4 ran with parameters 'd 35/256' and found the following patterns:

(0,0)c/10:

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......*...
.....***.*
....**...*
...***.**.
..**..*.*.
.***..*...
**..***...
.*.*......
...**.....
.**.......

(0,0)c/10:

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......*...
.....***.*
....**...*
...***.**.
..***.*.*.
.***..*...
**..***...
.*.*......
...**.....
.**.......

Total: 2 patterns


CopperSearch version 0.4 ran with parameters 'd 36/256' and found the following patterns:

(0,0)c/10:

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......*...
.....***.*
....***..*
...**..**.
..**..*..*
.**..**...
***.**....
.*.*......
...*......
.**.*.....

(0,0)c/10:

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......*...
.....***.*
....***..*
...**..**.
..***.*..*
.**..**...
***.**....
.*.*......
...*......
.**.*.....

(0,0)c/10:

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......*...
......*.*.
......***.
....**....
...**..***
...*..*...
***..*....
..*.*.....
.**.*.....
....*.....

Total: 3 patterns

#33 and #34 registered nil.

Losing hope: all we can find is p5 + p2 combos.

[Hdjensofjfnen]

Now we are waiting on the following:

#6, #55-56, #78, #84-89, #133-143, #172, and #174-175.

[thunk]

Because I have plenty of impatience and spare cpu cycles, I went ahead and searched some of the spaces reserved by others. Apologies to bullet51, dvgrn, and muzik:
#6, #133-143 is empty; #172, #174, #175 only have trivial p5+p2 oscillator combinations.

[BlinkerSpawn]

Now we are waiting on the following:

#6, #55-56, #78, #84-89, #133-143, #172, and #174-175.

I did #55-56 already:

search d 28/128 found nothing.

My apologies for not elaborating.
Also,

#78 and #84 through #89 are complete, with no results.

So, with that, the (current) search space is complete!


...unfortunately.

[drc]

How about an orthogonal search?