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1D Conway's Life glider found, 3.7B cells long

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Re: 1D Conway's Life glider found, 3.7B cells long

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Post by isoprophlex »

adzm wrote: post #9
martianlantern wrote: post #2

Wow this seems very interesting! Can we get a TLDR of how this was achieved?

While I understand very little of it, it is still very enjoyable to read the details further in the thread at https://conwaylife.com/forums/viewtopic.php?&p=222136#p22221... >>> Unidimensional spaceship can be interpreted as a demonstration of the progress of recent years in slow salvo technology and the various arms that use it. The project uses 4 construction arms, with the last three sharing principles with the ar…

If the first Star Trek episodes were written today, they could have very well used GoL terminology as technobabble. The depth of the GoL community lingo always amazes me, as an outsider

Re: 1D Conway's Life glider found, 3.7B cells long

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Post by huflungdung »

adzm wrote: post #9
martianlantern wrote: post #2

Wow this seems very interesting! Can we get a TLDR of how this was achieved?

While I understand very little of it, it is still very enjoyable to read the details further in the thread at https://conwaylife.com/forums/viewtopic.php?&p=222136#p22221... >>> Unidimensional spaceship can be interpreted as a demonstration of the progress of recent years in slow salvo technology and the various arms that use it. The project uses 4 construction arms, with the last three sharing principles with the ar…

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Re: 1D Conway's Life glider found, 3.7B cells long

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Post by pkilgore »

So it starts as a line, explodes into a huge 2D complex mess, and eventually, after many generation, returns to form the same 3.7B cells long line?

That's kind of amazing. I wish someone unpacked the units of abstraction/compilation that must surely exist here.

Surely they aren't developing this with 1 or 0 as the abstraction level!

Re: 1D Conway's Life glider found, 3.7B cells long

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Post by layer8 »

pkilgore wrote: post #13

So it starts as a line, explodes into a huge 2D complex mess, and eventually, after many generation, returns to form the same 3.7B cells long line? That's kind of amazing. I wish someone unpacked the units of abstraction/compilation that must surely exist here. Surely they aren't developing this with 1 or 0 as the abstraction level!

See here: https://conwaylife.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=2040&start...

It’s also a relatively sparse line, as the number of live cells is less than a hundredth of the line’s extent: https://conwaylife.com/wiki/Unidimensional_spaceship_1

Re: 1D Conway's Life glider found, 3.7B cells long

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Post by flufluflufluffy »

Me: oh cool, this is interesting, I don’t quite understand what exactly that means, let me read the thread to learn more…

The thread: > Replacing ECCA1 by version with step after the direction change could save something like 1% of the ecca1 bits size. Compiling agnosticized program instead of fixed lane program by ecca1 could save something like 1% as well (just guesses). Build of smaller ECCA1 would shorten binary portion, but it would be hardly seen in the ship size.

> Using agnosticized recipe in the fuse portion would definitely reduce its size. Better cordership seed and better salvo for gpse90 would help…

Dear lord I had no idea there’s this much jargon in the game of life community. Gonna be reading the wiki for hours

Re: 1D Conway's Life glider found, 3.7B cells long

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Post by cpfohl »

herodoturtle wrote: post #15

Can someone please ELI5 what this means? Thanks in advance.

Someone figured out how to create a glider that starts and ends as a long string of cells on a single line. Gliders are figures in the game of life that move themselves in a direction by repeated patterns that result in movement. For more game of life/glider context you can read the pretty decent Wikipedia articles:

Conway's game of life: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_Game_of_Life

Gliders: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glider_(Conway%27s_Game_of_Lif...

Re: 1D Conway's Life glider found, 3.7B cells long

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Post by dcel »

Sometimes I feel a deep sense of loss of the old web that grew up with -full of niche interests, unashamedly earnest and rich in subcultures- has been lost in a sea of corporate slop and clickbait social media.

Then occasionally I come across something like this and it feels like all is not lost. Conway's GoL was one of the first C programmes I ever wrote and I've long been distantly fascinated by cellular automata but I had no idea that there was such a depth of research (work, experimentation, collaboration? how do you even describe this kind of collective endeavour?) into GoL lurking out there all these years.

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