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CatForce is mostly being put to work on conduits at the time of writing, but like Bellman, it's multi-purpose. Post your CatForce discoveries here, if you have no better place to put them.

I'll start with this spark amplifier.

I've got a feeling that after having the "thread for your Bellman finds", "soup (apg)search results", etc. the whole idea of splitting computer-assisted discoveries by program used wastes time – both in having to search for a page and the server loading the page. Perhaps we could convert this thread, since it hasn't gotten very long, into a single unified thread for all programs; which one was used would then be quite obvious from the types of still-lives used (Bellman tends towards complex "platinum" conduits whereas CatForce searches mostly concentrate on spartan catalysts).

Freywa wrote: into a single unified thread for all programs

I disagree, as each program has it's own nuances, and people want to see not only the result but the way and tricks of the special program as well. If all the programs (and we don't have too many of them) will be in the same thread this will create confusion, and will make it harder to learn from those threads.

BTW did you try to run CatForce already?

Converting the Bellman thread into a CatForce/Bellman thread might be a good idea, actually, since the programs have similar utility (and who know what could happen if they were used in tandem if you really wanted something to work).

Also, Freywa, you know that thread you made about failing at discoveries? Go pick some active explodey corner of a conduit search space (such as one of my Pi catalysts; the big heavy one that we could only get an unnecessarily complex Pi-to-G out of seems like a good target) and run it through CatForce for easy conduit discoveries.

I don't know what we're doing with this thread yet, so, here: an honest-to-god transparent pond. Doesn't do much useful, but at least it survives.

If you wanted to post here stuff that are transparent, cool, and totally useless found by CatForce here is one with double transparency:

Kazyan wrote:Also, Freywa, you know that thread you made about failing at discoveries? Go pick some active explodey corner of a conduit search space (such as one of my Pi catalysts; the big heavy one that we could only get an unnecessarily complex Pi-to-G out of seems like a good target) and run it through CatForce for easy conduit discoveries.

As in, what do you mean? I've gotten Catforce down on my computer and know what the parameters are meant to do but I can't seem to get a reasonable search time out of them without compromising on the output quality. I may actually increase the RAM on my laptop sometime on the future though… and return to apgsearch.

Freywa wrote: I can't seem to get a reasonable search time out of them without compromising on the output quality.

What do you call "reasonable search time"? And you are welcome to ask question about different searches you made. People already used it to find quite a few new discoveries. There is no way you're doing everything right and get 0 results. So probably you're doing something wrong, and you're welcome to ask here, or in the scripts thread.

Can anyone do anything with this? It's apparently very difficult to get any further catalysis going without preventing the pond from coming back.