biggiemac wrote: August 30th, 2016, 4:32 pmIf a c/18 ship ever shows up from apgsearch I will give 50 USD to its discoverer. I feel extremely safe that it won't though.muzik wrote:andyetwestilldonthaveanaturalloaferortinyc18ship
muzik wrote: March 6th, 2016, 1:55 pmCaterpillar 2.0's very discovery could rest upon this useless discovery...drc wrote:Eh, somehow someone somewhere could combine them to possibly create more blinkerscodeholic wrote:But it's not even a fuse! It's just a random reaction that involves a regular arrangement of blinkers. How is it remarkable among myriads of similar patterns?
mniemiec wrote: January 27th, 2016, 2:26 pmAs written, this looks like a conduit that changes empty space into a herschel and a century, which would indeed be truly remarkable.Gustavo6046 wrote:EDIT: GUYS QUICK look what I found!!!! ...
Minecraft is of course the de facto standard of circuitry...dvgrn wrote: January 9th, 2022, 12:33 pm It's often very hard to tell what your intentions are from the snippets of circuitry you post. I did try looking up "RS-NOR", but everything I found seemed to be defined in terms of Minecraft blocks.
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rutabaga wrote: March 22nd, 2023, 10:08 am Also, just an off-topic pro tip, don't die. It's bad for your health.
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Extrementhusiast wrote: March 30th, 2018, 8:11 pmYou put your two gliders in, you take your two gliders out, you put your two gliders in, and you shake yourself about; you do the Hokey Pokey and you turn yourself around; that's what it's all about!calcyman wrote:Does anyone have a reaction where a glider approaches a Cordership head-on and is reflected in the opposite direction? In the interests of minimising N, the Cordership should be as simple as possible.Code: Select all
x = 47, y = 102, rule = B3/S23 19b2o$19b4o$19bob2o2$20bo$19b2o$19b3o$21bo$33b2o$33b2o7$36bo$35b2o$34b o3bo$35b2o2bo$40bo$37bobo$38bo$38bo$38b2o$38b2o3$13bo10bo$12b5o5bob2o 11bo$11bo10bo3bo9bo$12b2o8b3obo9b2o$13b2o9b2o12bo$2o13bo21b3o$2o35b3o 7$8b2o$8b2o11b2o$19b2o2bo$24bo3bo$18bo5bo3bo$19bo2b2o3bobo$20b3o5bo$ 28bo32$41b2o$41bobo$41bo17$45b2o$44b2o$46bo!
wwei47 wrote: November 2nd, 2024, 1:28 pm [...]
To anyone unacquainted: This is the collision dupe I'm talking about. You put in four blocks and get out two ponds, which is a 4.5x return on investment.Code: Select all
x = 21, y = 10, rule = LifeSuper 17.2A$17.2A2$2A14.BAB$2A14.BAB$3.2A13.BAB$3.2A13.BAB2$18.2A$18.2A!
carsoncheng wrote: July 14th, 2023, 12:40 am p19 by mvr:Code: Select all
x = 34, y = 21, rule = B3/S23 29bo$28bobo$17bo10bobo$15b3o9b2o2b2o$14bo11bo2bobo$14b2o9bob3obo$25bo 6b2o$11bo15b4obo$3bo7b2o8bo5bo2bobo$2bobo16bo6b2o2b2o$2bobo7bo8bo7bobo $2o2b2o6bo16bobo$bobo2bo5bo8b2o7bo$bob4o15bo$2o6bo$2bob3obo9b2o$2bobo 2bo11bo$b2o2b2o9b3o$3bobo10bo$3bobo$4bo!
glider_rider wrote: July 21st, 2023, 2:41 pm Interesting loop:Code: Select all
x = 75, y = 61, rule = B3/S23 35bo$33b3o$32bo$17b2o13b2o$18bo$18bobo$19b2o$25bo$24bobo$23b2ob2o8bo$ 24bo2bo9bo$24b2ob2o6b3o$25bobo$26bo$26bo$5b2o18bobo4b2o$6bo20bo4bo$5bo 7bo8b2obo7b3o$5b2o6bo8b3o10bo$2o19bo$o2b4o4b3o8b2o21bobo$bobo2bo3bob2o 3bobo2b2o22b2o$2o2b2o4b2o5bobo6bo19bo$2bobo14bo7b3o$2bo2bo21b2o$3b2o$ 8b2o15bo$9bo14bobo$6b3o8b2o5b2o$6bo10bobo$17bo39bo$55bobo10bo$49b2o5b 2o8b3o$48bobo14bo$49bo15b2o$70b2o$46b2o21bo2bo$45b3o7bo14bobo$28bo19bo 6bobo5b2o4b2o2b2o$27b2o22b2o2bobo3b2obo3bo2bobo$27bobo21b2o8b3o4b4o2bo $53bo19b2o$39bo10b3o8bo6b2o$39b3o7bob2o8bo7bo$42bo4bo20bo$41b2o4bobo 18b2o$48bo$48bo$47bobo$37b3o6b2ob2o$37bo9bo2bo$38bo8b2ob2o$48bobo$49bo $54b2o$54bobo$56bo$41b2o13b2o$42bo$39b3o$39bo!
calcyman wrote: July 29th, 2021, 1:12 pmThis community is sufficiently patient and forgiving that this sort of transformation (from annoying n00b to productive contributor) is possible. But it does require a great willingness and effort from you to consciously make this transformation; you can't expect others to do the work on your behalf.
Never underestimate finite lifespans.Haycat2009 wrote: September 16th, 2023, 10:43 am Is it just me, or do users who mistake Cgol with Life live longer, like John Conway? Can I use this to double my virtually-infinite lifespan?
D. E. Knuth (1976) Mathematics and Computer Science: Coping with Finiteness wrote:[...] We are forced to realize that there are limits beyond which we cannot go. The numbers we can deal with are not only finite, they are very finite, and we do not have time or space to solve certain problems even with the aid of the fastest computers. [...]
Template:CurrentNews/editcopy (Revision as of 10:48, 21 September 2023 by Haycat2009) wrote: September 18: Mitchell Riley the first engine-based period-107 oscillator.
the number of generations the R-pentomino lasts wrote: done with animating? sAME
dvgrn wrote: November 5th, 2023, 2:14 pm disparaging comments claiming some kind of innate superiority ... apparently written by people who aren't very good at statistics.
Period1GliderGun wrote: October 12th, 2023, 10:34 pm EDIT: I just realized... you can't crosspost from the forums... to the forums...[slaps forehead]
me on irc 2 years ago wrote:life wisdom: surround yourself with exactly two or three living people or you'll die.
HerscheltheHerschel wrote: December 11th, 2023, 10:50 amI choose to ignore your arguments and explanations.
...HerscheltheHerschel wrote: December 14th, 2023, 6:00 amI object to you objecting to this moderator action.
HerscheltheHerschel wrote: December 20th, 2023, 2:15 pmIs there a pair of rules which are like maze with mice and mazectric with mice but with extra "cats" that can eat mice?
hotdogPi wrote: December 3rd, 2021, 9:44 amBy the way, I think this is the first dog in CGOL, if you exclude the houndstooth agar. Cats already exist (Cheshire Cat, CatForce), but not dogs.
iNoMed, on the discord wrote: That's a you thing, not me.
multiple people wrote:it's
hotdogPi wrote: May 30th, 2022, 11:52 am While I don't want to put this in the CGCA thread, these were coined on Discord:
CFLA (confusing four letter acronym)
FLMD (full length multiword description)
Now if you look at the thread, there are, coined just now, MCFLAs (more confusing five letter acronyms). I hope we don't reach EMCSLAs, which you can probably figure out.
User:Haycat2009 wrote:The canonical eater 2 ranks about 381st out of 45,759 in the list of 19-cell still lifes.
Journey into Geometries wrote:[...]
"And I bet," said Alice, "that the power-line ... er ... radical axis is the perpendicular to AB, erected at E."
"You do not bet," said Lewis Carroll disapprovingly, "you guess, you conjecture, then you try to prove it--or let future generations of mathematicians try to prove or disprove your conjecture."
[...]
(Journey into Geometries, by Marta Sved with foreword by H. S. M. Coxeter and illustrations by John Stillwell, Chapter 1. Going Round in Circles)
b-engine wrote: February 4th, 2024, 2:17 amI bet that a unit stripe is possible:Code: Select all
x = 49, y = 12, rule = B015/S o2bo15b2o11b2o13b2o$19b2o11b2o13b2o$b2o$19b2o11b2o13b2o7$9b2obo19b2o$ 9b2obo19b2o!
snowman wrote: January 6th, 2024, 6:29 amIt kind of surprises me that triple pseudo still life and quad pseudo still life don't seem to have syntheses in sjk. It looks a little difficult, but I bet a converter-based synthesis is possible.
rutabaga wrote: November 17th, 2023, 1:06 pmsome day we will reach 2.5... i bet geometry dash will get there first
H. H. P. M. P. Cole wrote: February 11th, 2024, 5:52 am I time-travelled to 2050 and checked the Golly 18.pi Pattern Collection. Unfortunately, most of the text is redacted to prevent time-travel paradoxes.
Some little gems I found:
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#N elementary-camelship.rle #O tessaron_parker, 17 July 2037 #C This is the first elementary camelship found so far. With a speed #C of (3,1)c/8, it is by far the fastest of its velocity. Several #C other larger ships of this velocity have been found. #C Reference: <REDACTED> x = 82, y = 247, rule = B3/S23 <REDACTED>And some OCA goodies as well. I mainly looked into the Factorio file. (I hear they are liking me even in 2050 - a good sign?)Code: Select all
#N silk_road.rle #O Various, collected on 4 May 2046 #C This RLE is called “Silk Road” due to the several knightships and #C camelships in it. It is a period-152468467356 oscillator which #C consists of various spaceship converters. #C The spaceships converted are the glider, LWSS, Schick engine, #C 46P4H1V0, lobster, loafer, copperhead, flying saucer, #C 2-engine Cordership, walrus, seal, Sir Robin, caterpillar, #C 2340P8H3V1, and (34,7)c/156 caterpillar in that order. Each #C spaceship is converted into a glider before it is converted #C to the next spaceship. #C Reference: <REDACTED> x = 2562252579, y = 3874642908, rule = B3/S23 <REDACTED>
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#N factoriopatterncollection.rle #O Various, collected on 20 Mar 2050 by H. H. P. M. P. Cole #C To commemorate the birthday of H. H. P. M. P. Cole a great #C present was created – that of the Definite Factorio #C Oscillator Collection. It has been proven omniperiodic in #C 2049, with the discovery of the odd-period AbhpzTa-FWKnightship #C loop. #C Reference: <REDACTED> x = 7504, y = 3046, rule = R3,C0,S2,B3,N+ <REDACTED>Computing power in 2050 has grown to such a point that one can simulate the giant "Silk Road" pattern on a personal quantum computer. Scientists are still figuring out how to squash that much computing power into the size of an atom, as they found it was theoretically possible.Code: Select all
#N elephantship.rle #O xjq, 29 Feb 2032 #C This ship is made out of what is colloquially called #C Durnak plasma - an aperiodic agar of 25% density. #C The strange thing is that Durnak plasma can come in all forms, #C and one of the more striking of them is this (8,3)c/79 spaceship. #C Reference: <REDACTED> x = 53, y = 26, rule = R3,C0,S2,B3,N+ <REDACTED>
I have seen the Forums of 2050. It has reached over 1,000,000 members. Apparently after hopping out of the time travel machine I saw an older version of myself at a table, posting a new discovery. After the older version of me had gone away (to do some errands), I created a new account and posted a question under the username "retardationfactor".
I asked about the current status of CGOL. Freywa's son, "Parcly Taxel II", had replied me, stating that all the SKOPs had less than or equal to 104 cells, CGOL was proven omnivelocital, and a technology developed in 2031 which was a simple and fast pi to loafer+copperhead had been discovered and used to make loafer guns of all periods.
The predominant spaceship-based technologies in 2050 no longer include the glider; they mainly utilize it as an intermediate to convert between the Big Five: loafer, copperhead, 2EC, caravan (30P5H2V0), and flying saucer (25P3H1V0.1). All the conduits using standard inputs were found using ConduitForce in 2039.
Oscillators had become commonplace and no one bothered looking for them anymore, as they are as easy to find in 2050 as SLs are in 1990. However, oscillator synthesis has improved immensely. All SKOPs are less than 104 cells. Technology with speeds of c/2o, c/3o, c/4o, c/4d, and c/10o was considered trivial by then.
On the topic of SL synthesis, a finite set of synthesizable components has been found which can synthesize all but the unsynthesizable SLs.
However, the most striking thing was when I found out ConwayLife.com had split into several websites. It, in 2050, was reserved only for general discussion, hence there is also ConwayLifeShips.com, ConwayLifeSpaceshipTech.com, and ConwayLifeConvertersandTech.com.
OCA had moved to another site, OcaBoard.com. The new OCA exploration of 2050 has moved on from INT (since INT is so vanilla by then) and into HROT/HROT weighted and Multistate. Unfortunately the two parties are still arguing over which of their rulespaces have more developed technology.
There is a dedicated site for all things Factorio, much like where CGOL is at now. It was named after me and the site had the name ColeFactorio.com. Other sites have been named after their CA, including YoelHexogen.com, HaycatGrounded.com, CloseLifeVariants.com, and some more.
The 'Maximum number of 4-cell oscillators' game has been solved with a nonexplosive rule which has 1,046 4-cell oscillators. The root rule is a weighted rule in range-19 which has 276 of them, and it is not based off Factorio (like most of the earlier results).
Finally, Dave Greene's nonalogy/ennealogy (is that a word?) of books has been completed and released to the world.
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