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Re: Suggested LifeWiki edits
Posted: January 31st, 2020, 11:13 pm
by GUYTU6J
Please make a dedicated page for Margolus rules and plug in the notation
here. At least it will help those Margolus investigators with Lifeviewer in the
forum thread.
Re: Suggested LifeWiki edits
Posted: February 1st, 2020, 12:43 am
by Ian07
GUYTU6J wrote: January 31st, 2020, 11:13 pm
Please make a dedicated page for Margolus rules and plug in the notation
here. At least it will help those Margolus investigators with Lifeviewer in the
forum thread.
They do have a section here:
Cellular_automaton#Block_cellular_automata but I agree that they could definitely use their own article.
Re: Suggested LifeWiki edits
Posted: February 1st, 2020, 8:16 am
by GUYTU6J
Ian07 wrote: February 1st, 2020, 12:43 am
GUYTU6J wrote: January 31st, 2020, 11:13 pm
Please make a dedicated page for Margolus rules and plug in the notation
here. At least it will help those Margolus investigators with Lifeviewer in the
forum thread.
They do have a section here:
Cellular_automaton#Block_cellular_automata but I agree that they could definitely use their own article.
See, that section isn't enough, compared with the way we introduce (isotropic) non-totalistic rules.
(I hope it's not because Golly adapts to Hensel notation but not to Margolus CA notation, and fewer are investigating Margolus rules)
Talking about Hensel notation, why does the
Alan Hensel page mention nothing about Hensel notation?
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Unrelated, can we rearrange the content in the
Random walk page so that figures align with texts?
And for the first pushalong of
114P6H1V0, there's something "shown below in green" which seems to be an artifact.
Re: Suggested LifeWiki edits
Posted: February 3rd, 2020, 6:19 am
by Entity Valkyrie 2
I'm not sure if you know that I invented the usage of "T" to mean "turn" in Pi and QB conduits. Please add "M" to mean "move" in HF and TL conduits.
Re: Suggested LifeWiki edits
Posted: February 3rd, 2020, 12:26 pm
by dvgrn
Entity Valkyrie 2 wrote: February 3rd, 2020, 6:19 am
I'm not sure if you know that
I invented the usage of "T" to mean "turn" in Pi and QB conduits. Please add "M" to mean "move" in HF and TL conduits.
Yes, you were the one who
added that line to the Conduit definition. Thanks for the reminder.
It seems as if you might still not be clear on how the LifeWiki works. LifeWiki articles should only document widely accepted terminology that's in general use. If you invented some terminology yourself, as you're claiming here, then there's no way it should be added to a LifeWiki article -- yet. If lots of other people are using the term,
then it makes sense to document it.
Nine times out of ten, terms invented with the best of intentions don't ever actually get used, and after a few years any remaining traces of them in LifeWiki articles start to look fairly mysterious -- especially if the inventors don't bother to make it clear that they were the inventors. Whatever-it-is often ends up looking like Official Life Terminology, but it's impossible to find any actual examples where anyone ever used it.
The day after that T-for-turn edit was made, Freywa posted an
update to the Elementary Conduits Collection that used competing terminology in place of "T" or "M", or Sphenocorona's "v" -- there were a lot of options floating around. Freywa's terminology is now baked into the names of various conduits in the ECC, which quite a few people use as a standard reference. So it seems to make sense to document that usage, rather than trying to switch back to the "T" or "v" syntax.
At the time I remember thinking that the "T" syntax was a reasonably good idea, so that edit didn't get reverted right away. Unfortunately it just hasn't caught on, for whatever reason. At this point it's just another good example of why people probably shouldn't make up new ideas and edit them into LifeWiki articles immediately.
Re: Suggested LifeWiki edits
Posted: February 12th, 2020, 8:40 am
by GUYTU6J
There's a
32G synthesis of cross 2.
And symmetrical synapse is doable in 8 by replacing the block by a glider (submitted to catagolue).
Re: Suggested LifeWiki edits
Posted: February 12th, 2020, 7:36 pm
by Ian07
GUYTU6J wrote: February 12th, 2020, 8:40 am
There's a
32G synthesis of cross 2.
And symmetrical synapse is doable in 8 by replacing the block by a glider (submitted to catagolue).
Both done.
Re: Suggested LifeWiki edits
Posted: February 24th, 2020, 7:48 am
by GUYTU6J
Crossposting an unanswered post.
GUYTU6J wrote: February 20th, 2020, 2:55 am
These two sentences seemed somewhat contradicting to me:
Lifewiki wrote:The colour of a glider is a property of the glider which remains constant while the glider is moving along a straight path ... A reflected version has to be advanced by two ticks to bring it back to one of these "canonical" phases, which has the effect of moving the key cells to the opposite color.
Then I realized that the color-defining cell of a glider on a single lane is alternating between two adjacent diagonals (1hd away):
color.png
So in fact the concepts of quarter/half/full diagonal, lane (of a glider) and color are closely related. Can we explain all of them visually with a superimposed checkerboard agar in Lifewiki like this? (These images are created in golly with two layers)
hdfd.png
There was once some thoughts about one-time turners that I'm writing here but never mind now
Re: Suggested LifeWiki edits
Posted: March 17th, 2020, 8:34 pm
by GUYTU6J
PD-pair reflector is ... so that their V sparks turn a glider by 90 (or 180[citation needed]) degrees.
The 180-degree reflector is shown in
6 bits.
Also, the catagolue recipe for four molds hassling eight blocks comes from
Mark D. Niemiec's website, apparently.
Also, a synthesis of Period-60 glider gun is seen in an
xp60 entry.
Re: Suggested LifeWiki edits
Posted: March 20th, 2020, 9:37 pm
by GUYTU6J
How does the malfunctioning
c/12 R-pentomino crawler meet the notability guideline?
Re: Suggested LifeWiki edits
Posted: March 21st, 2020, 12:22 am
by Ian07
To be honest, I'm not sure. I basically just tagged it as a stub and hoped someone else would either improve the page or realize that it wasn't notable and propose deletion. I've replaced it with a {{notability}} tag, which probability won't fix the fact that the page is just going to get ignored for another year, but hopefully someone can at least find
some information out there about this thing, because I couldn't. At least the other crawlers have either forum threads about them or have been successfully turned into engineered spaceships.
Re: Suggested LifeWiki edits
Posted: March 21st, 2020, 5:21 am
by apg
Ian07 wrote: March 21st, 2020, 12:22 am
To be honest, I'm not sure. I basically just tagged it as a stub and hoped someone else would either improve the page or realize that it wasn't notable and propose deletion. I've replaced it with a {{notability}} tag, which probability won't fix the fact that the page is just going to get ignored for another year, but hopefully someone can at least find
some information out there about this thing, because I couldn't. At least the other crawlers have either forum threads about them or have been successfully turned into engineered spaceships.
Well, it's possible to actually make the crawler not destroy itself...
Code: Select all
x = 75, y = 71, rule = B3/S23
16b2o$16b2o2$2bo2bo5b3o5b2o$2bobo6b3o5b2o$2b3o6b3o$11b2o9b2o$22b2o$2b
2o$2bo22b2o$3o4bo6bo4b3o3b2o$7bo5bobo$7bo5bob2o11b2o$14bo7b3o3b2o2$4b
2o25b2o$4b2o19b3o3b2o2$7b2o5bo19b2o$7b2o5bo13b3o3b2o$14bo$10b2o5bo19b
2o$10b2o5bo13b3o3b2o$17bo$13b2o5bo19b2o$13b2o5bo13b3o3b2o$20bo$16b2o5b
o19b2o$16b2o5bo13b3o3b2o$23bo$19b2o5bo19b2o$19b2o5bo13b3o3b2o$26bo$22b
2o5bo19b2o$22b2o5bo13b3o3b2o$29bo$25b2o5bo19b2o$25b2o5bo13b3o3b2o$32bo
$28b2o5bo19b2o$28b2o5bo13b3o3b2o$35bo$31b2o5bo19b2o$31b2o5bo13b3o3b2o$
38bo$34b2o5bo19b2o$34b2o5bo13b3o3b2o$41bo$37b2o5bo19b2o$37b2o5bo13b3o
3b2o$44bo$40b2o5bo19b2o$40b2o5bo13b3o3b2o$47bo$43b2o5bo19b2o$43b2o5bo
13b3o3b2o$50bo$46b2o5bo19b2o$46b2o5bo13b3o3b2o$53bo$49b2o5bo$49b2o5bo
13b3o$56bo$52b2o5bo$52b2o5bo$59bo$55b2o5bo$55b2o5bo$62bo$58b2o$58b2o!
...and then it's a tractable engineering problem to create a Corderpuffer which generates this fuse by glider syntheses.
Re: Suggested LifeWiki edits
Posted: March 21st, 2020, 5:22 am
by dvgrn
Ian07 wrote: March 21st, 2020, 12:22 am
... hopefully someone can at least find
some information out there about this thing, because I couldn't.
Yeah, that thing is probably not really notable, because the reaction just plain doesn't work the way the LifeViewer animation says it does. No matter how close it is to being a reburnable fuse, the trailing sparks prevent it from actually being one, and no amount of wishing will change that.
However, biggiemac did make a nice agar out of it, and said that it might mix well with Corderships or switch engines somehow, so maybe the page shouldn't just be cavalierly deleted.
As usual, it would have made things a lot easier if the author had just bothered to include a link to the
forum postings where the pattern was discussed.
Re: Suggested LifeWiki edits
Posted: March 24th, 2020, 9:50 pm
by GUYTU6J
The
Herschel transmitter variant displayed in the wiki employs a house siamese shillelagh(?), instead of a carrier siamese dock.
EDIT: The tagalong section of
turtle needs updating as
many posts about them have been posted.
Re: Suggested LifeWiki edits
Posted: March 25th, 2020, 11:02 am
by dvgrn
GUYTU6J wrote: March 24th, 2020, 9:50 pmThe
Herschel transmitter variant displayed in the wiki employs a house siamese shillelagh(?), instead of a carrier siamese dock.
Oops, that was my fault. Fixed in LifeWiki. Now have to go see if that confusion made it into the Life Lexicon also --
Re: Suggested LifeWiki edits
Posted: April 2nd, 2020, 2:33 am
by Naszvadi
This should be updated with c/7 since yesterday:
LifeWiki:Did_you_know/80
Re: Suggested LifeWiki edits
Posted: April 2nd, 2020, 9:09 am
by Ian07
Re: Suggested LifeWiki edits
Posted: April 3rd, 2020, 11:17 pm
by JP21
Why doesn't the
58P5H1V0 redirect to
Spider anymore?
Can someone please fix it?
Re: Suggested LifeWiki edits
Posted: April 4th, 2020, 2:48 am
by bubblegum
Done. Now:
bubblegum wrote: December 17th, 2019, 8:18 pm
Shouldn't
Blocked p4-1's RLE be updated with Sokwe's reduced stator he found in um,
2010?
Code: Select all
x = 23, y = 11, rule = B3/S23
11bo11b$4bo3bo5bo3bo4b$3bobo11bobo3b$3bobo11bobo3b$2obobob9obobob2o$2o
bo15bob2o$3bo15bo3b$3bobo4bobo4bobo3b$4b2o3bob2o4b2o$9bo$8b2o!
Re: Suggested LifeWiki edits
Posted: April 4th, 2020, 9:43 am
by Ian07
bubblegum wrote: December 17th, 2019, 8:18 pm
Shouldn't
Blocked p4-1's RLE be updated with Sokwe's reduced stator he found in um,
2010?
Code: Select all
x = 23, y = 11, rule = B3/S23
11bo11b$4bo3bo5bo3bo4b$3bobo11bobo3b$3bobo11bobo3b$2obobob9obobob2o$2o
bo15bob2o$3bo15bo3b$3bobo4bobo4bobo3b$4b2o3bob2o4b2o$9bo$8b2o!
Done.
Re: Suggested LifeWiki edits
Posted: April 5th, 2020, 5:42 am
by HartmutHolzwart
Suggested amendment to "One-cell-thick pattern":
This one gives a middle weight schick engine
Code: Select all
x = 63, y = 1, rule = B3/S23
5o26b4ob4ob5o2b3o2b4ob5o!
Extracted from catagolue 1x256,
http://catagolue.appspot.com/hashsoup/1 ... 2204/b3s23
Re: Suggested LifeWiki edits
Posted: April 5th, 2020, 9:24 am
by Ian07
HartmutHolzwart wrote: April 5th, 2020, 5:42 am
Suggested amendment to "One-cell-thick pattern":
This one gives a middle weight schick engine
Added.
Re: Suggested LifeWiki edits
Posted: April 11th, 2020, 2:12 pm
by GUYTU6J
An overlooked fact: the p98/p196 Herschel loop made of four R49 conduits has a bounding box of 46x46, which is smaller than the 49x49 p256 loop.
It's so important that I woke up merely to make a post.
Re: Suggested LifeWiki edits
Posted: April 13th, 2020, 7:18 am
by gameoflifemaniac
https://www.conwaylife.com/wiki/Conway% ... e#Patterns
"This first (Gosper) glider gun is still the smallest one known."
Simkin's is smaller.
Re: Suggested LifeWiki edits
Posted: April 13th, 2020, 7:27 am
by dvgrn
Fixed. The Gosper gun still holds (or shares) some "smallest" records.