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shown wrote: April 17th, 2021, 3:55 am Hello everyone my name is shown and I am newbie here and I am also glad to meet you all and I think there is lot of things to learn and have fun.

shown wrote: April 17th, 2021, 4:01 am

Schiaparelliorbust wrote: November 7th, 2020, 2:16 pm

BokaBB wrote: November 7th, 2020, 2:14 pm I don't know how.
You can compare the first two pictures and deduct.
Have a good day!

BokaBB

Just look up how to use WhatsApp web.

Web WhatsApp is very easy to use
All you have to do is open your computer laptop, then go to Google and search for Web WhatsApp, then open it by clicking on WhatsApp's official Web site.

Then you have to scan the QR code from your mobile or tablet from which you are using WhatsApp.

And then you'll be able to use WhatsApp on the computer

GUYTU6J wrote: April 17th, 2021, 6:09 am

shown wrote: April 17th, 2021, 3:55 am Hello everyone my name is shown and I am newbie here and I am also glad to meet you all and I think there is lot of things to learn and have fun.

Welcome to the academic forums (in case you are a normal person)! Sorry for any possible offence, but a new user who necroposted about an external CA-unrelated software (regardless of whether someone else has mentioned it or not) like in the following quotation will be suspected to be an advertising spam account and result in some work on moderator's side. So don't do this!

shown wrote: April 17th, 2021, 4:01 am

Schiaparelliorbust wrote: November 7th, 2020, 2:16 pm
Just look up how to use WhatsApp web.

Web WhatsApp is very easy to use
All you have to do is open your computer laptop, then go to Google and search for Web WhatsApp, then open it by clicking on WhatsApp's official Web site.

Then you have to scan the QR code from your mobile or tablet from which you are using WhatsApp.

And then you'll be able to use WhatsApp on the computer

Moderators, please keep this post as a lesson for future newcomers. (I'm not spamming!)

shown wrote: April 18th, 2021, 2:15 am ...
Thank you for welcoming me to this forum
And from now on, I will make sure that this does not happen again.

shown wrote: April 18th, 2021, 2:15 am
Thank you for welcoming me to this forum

And from now on, I will make sure that this does not happen again.

georgemarhsal wrote: April 20th, 2021, 1:00 am I [am] new on this forum. Anyone guide me plz

NotAvailableCooper wrote: August 10th, 2014, 9:24 pm Hi! I'm a guy who's been playing around with GoL for 5 years and is particularly fascinated with methuselahs. I'm no expert, but I know enough to have made a video series on the basics on YouTube.

burair76 wrote: September 7th, 2021, 4:20 am Hello Everyone! I am new on this forum. It's my first post.

Ponytale wrote: October 14th, 2021, 11:01 pm ...Well, I came to the idea of multi-colors B3/S23 Moore neighborhood Game (not a big deal ), but with one additional sto[c]hastic rule. The main efforts were made to have a population, which will neither grow too fast, neither end in still patterns. I think I succedeed in that.
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And also I found, I think - some interesting properties of my sto[c]hastic variant of Game's rules. I am not sure if I am the first to find it - anyway, it will be cool to discuss. I made a Windows program, which is primarily intended to make some nice graphics show, but can be used to investigate the new rules.

I will be thankeful, if someone will help me to make a topic in the right section of the forum, any other advices will be appreciated too.

Avengium wrote: October 25th, 2021, 12:40 am Hi. I have a background on biology and lab technician, i currently work on something related. I don't know enough math to understand most of this. I'm interested in creatures, bestiaries and all types of beings, mythical creatures, aliens, etc.
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I will most likely just be lurking, because i try to spend time adding creatures and places to my wiki. But i will read forum ocassionally in search of interesting posts and creatures (patterns).

GUYTU6J wrote: October 25th, 2021, 1:11 am you won't want to miss further generalizations of Life (for example Higher-range outer-totalistic cellular automaton), where much more creatures inhabit!

GUYTU6J wrote: October 25th, 2021, 1:11 am Something closer to real-life organisms can be found in another field, OCA:SmoothLife,
but this is rarely discussed in the forums.

GUYTU6J wrote: October 25th, 2021, 1:11 am Meanwhile, have you heard about Shan Hai Jing (山海经 in Chinese)?

otismo wrote: October 25th, 2021, 10:10 am I also like ALL CGoL Art, and I am studying NFTs. This is NFT minting week here, so if you are up and running in Etherium,

AND have patterns to mint, you should look into it...

Avengium wrote: October 25th, 2021, 6:55 am ...I was thinking on starting with Conway's Game of Life rulestring B3/S23 before looking for other rules.

Avengium wrote: October 25th, 2021, 6:55 am I have some questions but i don't know if this is the appropriate place to ask. For example:
1. Why people are so focused on period and speed to catalogue patterns instead of population or bounding box?

dvgrn wrote: July 2nd, 2016, 2:30 pm

muzik wrote:Futile it may be, but could someone be as kind as to run this reaction through a c/26 orthogonal search (probably a glide symmetric 2c/52 one) to see if any interesting partials come up?

c/26, yikes! I think that's probably a search you'll have to run yourself, if you want it done. And at that width, you'd better have a whole new search algorithm, or some really impressive computer hardware. As a rough guess, probably turning the entire mass of the Earth into computer chips wouldn't be enough.

A good rule of thumb seems to be that it's a few orders of magnitude harder to do a search for a period N+1 spaceship, than for a period-N spaceship. As you increase the period, you increase the number of unknown cells that could be either ON or OFF, and you have to check both options for each new cell.

Even if we were looking for a tiny 5x5 spaceship, let's say, and a lot of the cells were forced by the states of other cells, there might be 10 new choices of cell state for the eighth phase of a theoretical period-8 ship, that weren't there at all for an equivalent period 7 ship (where the eighth phase has to be the same as the first phase).

That's 2^10 times as many cases, or an increase in difficulty of three orders of magnitude.

Again, this is all a gross oversimplification, so please don't take the math seriously -- but it allows for some rough intuition about the difficulty of c/26 searches.

The period-7 Spaghetti Monster spaceship was discovered based on searches that took a couple of months to run. Maybe it could have been found inside a week, if someone had lucked out and tried the right search immediately, instead of going through all the smaller search spaces first. So let's simplify again and say a p7 spaceship search takes a week.

Then a p8 spaceship search with the same methods will take about a thousand weeks, and a p9 search will take a million weeks. Finding a c/26 spaceship will take about 10^54 = 1000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 weeks of CPU time.

If you only have maybe a week to spend before you run out of patience, you're likely to come up with a partial that represents about 1/1000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000th of a complete c/26 ship.

Your mileage may vary, of course... but it's probably better if you put in your own mileage in this case instead of asking someone else to do it for you. The reaction you're trying to use as a front end looks like it's about 18 cells wide, so probably the "10 new cells per phase" assumption is a really gross underestimate for this particular front end. So there will be a lot more zeroes in the number of weeks you need to find a complete c/26 spaceship with known search utilities -- i.e., the number will be big enough to make a googol look totally insignificant.

Avengium wrote: October 25th, 2021, 6:55 am

GUYTU6J wrote: October 25th, 2021, 1:11 am Something closer to real-life organisms can be found in another field, OCA:SmoothLife,
but this is rarely discussed in the forums.

There are equivalents one by one of CGOL B3/S23 and SmoothLife? If yes, then i could try to find the equivalents. If not, then is a different world with different creatures.
Why is rarely discussed? Is because people like to calculate things with integers or some other math reason or because people like pixelart?
What is the place to discuss about SmoothLife?

Avengium wrote: October 25th, 2021, 11:22 am ...
I know that scripts that look for patterns need the math but i don't know programming languages. If i can help with cataGOLue without programming, i could help.

Avengium wrote: October 25th, 2021, 6:55 am PS: I like your avatar. Looks like a heart-shaped spaceship! How is named?

x = 5, y = 5, rule = B2n3air/S2-i3-aeky4i
2bo$bobo$o3bo$obobo$bob2o!

GUYTU6J wrote: October 25th, 2021, 12:00 pm SmoothLife is indeed a different world from B3/S23 and there is no one-to-one correspondence. Discrete cellular automata have abundant possibilities, and are easier both to implement (like in our favourite programs, Golly and LifeViewer — be sure to get a copy of Golly from the link in navbar and play with it a lot!) and to enginner big patterns from small components at our will and then share them.
Searching gives this introduction thread to SmoothLife; it is under a subforum called Other Cellular Automata, which is for discussions about every non-B3/S23 rules.

GUYTU6J wrote: October 25th, 2021, 12:00 pm

Avengium wrote: October 25th, 2021, 6:55 am PS: I like your avatar. Looks like a heart-shaped spaceship! How is named?

I have not named it. It is the following pattern (not in B3/S23 though) shown with LifeViewer I mentioned above.

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x = 5, y = 5, rule = B2n3air/S2-i3-aeky4i
2bo$bobo$o3bo$obobo$bob2o!