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iddi01 wrote: February 28th, 2024, 8:14 am There is one major difference:
In GOBWR rules, cells in the process of being born are treated as alive, and counts toward birth and survival.
In "snoitareneG" rules, cells in the process of being born are treated as dead, and does not counts toward birth and survival.

x = 0, y = 0, rule = B123458/S0123478/C3
A!

Sokwe wrote: March 1st, 2024, 4:59 amThere is an unspoken (?) rule that you don't add your own discoveries to the wiki (except under your user page, for example, User:TheOddball524/my_pattern).

To prevent overenthusiastic edits and conflicts of interest, a commonly accepted rule is that the discoverer of a pattern, inventor of new terminology, writer of a program, etc., etc., should not be the one to document that pattern, term, or program on the LifeWiki.

Wikipedians have individual user pages, but they should be used primarily to present information relevant to work on the encyclopedia. Limited autobiographical information is allowed, but user pages do not serve as personal webpages, blogs, or repositories for large amounts of material irrelevant to collaborating on Wikipedia.

confocaloid wrote: March 1st, 2024, 5:32 am I think putting discoveries under the user page is also problematic (especially when there are many edits showing in the log of recent changes).
For comparison, on Wikipedia, WP:NOTWEBHOST says:

Wikipedians have individual user pages, but they should be used primarily to present information relevant to work on the encyclopedia. Limited autobiographical information is allowed, but user pages do not serve as personal webpages, blogs, or repositories for large amounts of material irrelevant to collaborating on Wikipedia.

I think the same should be true for LifeWiki (i.e. limiting to information that is relevant to work on the encyclopedia about Life/CA).

C28 wrote: March 1st, 2024, 8:31 am

qqd wrote: March 1st, 2024, 6:52 am First hand-made catalyst ever! (Okay, it seems like I rediscovered a variant of a known one, but this one was independently discovered by hand!):
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its known, and can be reduced

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x = 11, y = 11, rule = B3/S23
6b2o$7bo$5bo$5b2o$10bo$5b2o2bo$4bo2bobo$3bob2o2bo$3bo6bo$2obo$2ob2o!

theonesthatsmile wrote: March 15th, 2024, 4:52 pm This feels to simple to not be found but anyway I call it the Squadron.

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Sokwe wrote: March 16th, 2024, 8:43 am

Antonin Duda wrote: March 16th, 2024, 8:36 am I think it should.

Can you give more details on why? I'm still not convinced there is a problem with the current situation. I'd also be interested to hear from anyone else.

By the way, when this is resolved I'll move all this meta-discussion somewhere else.

hotcrystal0 wrote: March 16th, 2024, 5:30 pm I also believe that the c/4d technology should be moved to another thread, but refused to say it on the forums until someone else posted about it. The c/4d technology posts currently in the Spaceship Discussion thread should be kept there, but the new ones should go in a new thread

Sokwe wrote: March 16th, 2024, 5:37 pm

hotcrystal0 wrote: March 16th, 2024, 5:30 pm I also believe that the c/4d technology should be moved to another thread, but refused to say it on the forums until someone else posted about it. The c/4d technology posts currently in the Spaceship Discussion thread should be kept there, but the new ones should go in a new thread

Can you give more details on why you think they should be posted in a separate thread?

hotcrystal0 wrote: March 16th, 2024, 5:45 pm For the same reason that Antonin believes they should be posted in a separate thread.

hotcrystal0 wrote: March 16th, 2024, 5:45 pm Also, if what you’ve said about the activeness of the Spaceship Discussion Thread is true, then why isn’t the Oscillator Discussion Thread not that active unless something comes in?

Sokwe wrote: March 16th, 2024, 5:53 pm

hotcrystal0 wrote: March 16th, 2024, 5:45 pm For the same reason that Antonin believes they should be posted in a separate thread.

I didn't, and still don't, understand those reasons. I would probably need it explained in a different way. Right now I don't see how the c/4 diagonal posts negatively impacts the posting of other content.

hotcrystal0 wrote: March 16th, 2024, 5:56 pmIt’s just that the posting of other spaceships have drastically declined ever since the c/4d technology came in.

H. H. P. M. P. Cole wrote: March 17th, 2024, 10:28 pm(is Factorio dead?)

dvgrn, in an edit to a post, wrote: March 7th, 2024, 11:59 am EDIT by dvgrn: Collection threads never die -- they just go dormant, sometimes indefinitely.
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C_R_116 wrote: March 22nd, 2024, 2:46 amThis MUST be the reason why it's called Caterer, right? [...]

muzik wrote: August 17th, 2016, 6:07 pm The caterer caters to other oscillators and serves a single cell.

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x = 6, y = 8, rule = B3/S23
b3o$5bo$o4bo$4bo$b2o$bo$bo$bo!

mniemiec wrote: November 27th, 2016, 4:37 am Here are a few that I either have personal knowledge of, or can make fairly good guesses:
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caterer - It supplies (i.e. caters) a point-spark.

Caterer

All don'ts for reversible rules:

Haycat2009 wrote: March 22nd, 2024, 11:08 am I just received another banhammer threat, which I do not see why I need it. Also, users have been using derogatory terms on me.

tommyaweosme wrote: March 22nd, 2024, 4:30 pm highway reflector for life without death

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x = 27, y = 8, rule = B3/S012345678History
13.A.A.A.A.A.A.A$11.16A$11.3A.3A.3A.3A$A9.17A$10.16A$11.A.3A.3A.3A.2A
$13.13A$15.A.A.A.A.A.A!

tommyaweosme wrote: March 22nd, 2024, 7:50 pm i thought this rule is cool enough for it to get a thing
this is namesake pattern

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x = 9, y = 9, rule = B36ei/S235e6ei
4bo$3bobo$3bobo$b2o3b2o$o7bo$b2o3b2o$3bobo$3bobo$4bo!

d/dx wrote: March 23rd, 2024, 7:58 am loaf flipper

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b-engine wrote: March 22nd, 2024, 6:08 pm Sorry for bursting your bubble, but it's well known and even used in eater 3.

d/dx wrote: March 23rd, 2024, 1:50 pm I know. I just thought it'd be a fun thing to do since the eater 3 uses blocks, and this uses glider guns.

the catagolue wiki page (references section) wrote:...pronounced ka-tuh-gaal.

haaaaaands wrote: March 24th, 2024, 9:41 am i always pronounced it "ka-tah-go-loo"...

d/dx wrote: March 28th, 2024, 4:07 am here I present a collection of eight GUMs, or gliderGun Useless Machines, all by me (and in part Bill Gosper i guess)
gum 1 and 2 were posted here before as the "loaf flipper" and "cool failed eater oscillator"