@Apple Bottom: Thank you.
I've given up on RandAgar and am trying my hand at Conduit Searching. Here's my most successful result so far, a 180deg turn for a spark related to the Pi heptomino which can be paired with itself to make a p240 oscillator:
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x = 56, y = 43, rule = B378/S23
12b2obo$12bob2o2$13b5o$8b2o2bo4bo$8bo2bo2bo$9bobob2o$8b2obo5bo$11bo4bo
bo$11b2o2bo2bo$4b2ob2o7b2o23b2o$3bobobobo31bo$3bobobobo29bobo$2obo3bob
2o28b2o$bobo4bo2bo$bobo2b7o$2obobo2b4o$3bo2b3o$3bo$4b3o$6bo2$49bo$27b
3o19b3o$29bo22bo$28b2o17b3o2bo$27bo16b4o2bobob2o$43b7o2bobo$44bo2bo4bo
bo$15b2o28b2obo3bob2o$14bobo29bobobobo$14bo31bobobobo$13b2o23b2o7b2ob
2o$37bo2bo2b2o$37bobo4bo$38bo5bob2o$41b2obobo$41bo2bo2bo$38bo4bo2b2o$
38b5o2$40b2obo$40bob2o!
I manually added the p4 sparker after finding the conduit as I couldn't find a stable way to suppress the blinker which appears otherwise. There doesn't seem to be much hope of coaxing a glider out, but maybe there's a way.
Other potential conduit inputs are another spark related to the Pi heptomino, the R pentomino and the B heptomino (difficult to suppress the debris though). The Herschel is a bit of a dud. Unfortunately none of them have a natural glider output and tend to have a bit of backwards movement as well as forwards.
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x = 3, y = 155, rule = B378/S23
o$b2o$2bo$3o47$o$b2o$2bo$b2o$o46$2o$b2o$bo48$o$bo$b2o$2o$o!
So far I have a bunch of partial conduits for each of these and a small number of suicidal conduits with no hope of connecting anything to the output.
There's bound to be a spark which is more natural conduit material but I haven't spent much time looking yet.
The
5S project (Smallest Spaceships Supporting Specific Speeds) is now maintained by AforAmpere. The latest collection is hosted on
GitHub and contains well over 1,000,000 spaceships.
Semi-active here - recovering from a severe case of
LWTDS.
