Kazyan wrote:I recall seeing a catalyst like this somewhere on the forum before--Simkin, I think?--but the transparent block here is probably new. Non-Spartan B->G. It happens to be an edge-shooter.
Very nice! That's the first B-to-G with that northeast output direction at all, I think, let alone on that lane -- and edge-shooters are always nice to have. Looks like it connects up nicely with lots of different output B's, too.
Oddly enough, when you combine it with the standard H-to-B, its output glider is on the same lane as another known edge-shooter, SE38 -- but it's definitely a different timing. Ty0=168 instead of Ty0=215, and it's much less bulky. I'll be really surprised if it doesn't start setting new records in the gun collection (as soon as scote's contributions have been sorted out and it's possible to tell what the current records are!)
EDIT It's SE39T12 versus the known SE39T59, actually, using the
new SE lane numbering convention...
It would be nice to rework the H-to-G recognizer script so that it can handle other input signals as well, but I'm not sure when I'll actually get around to that, though. Recognizing other conduit types -- H-to-H, R-to-B, etc. -- would need a much more complex script; it would have to check every generation for all possible output patterns, and be able to deal with dying sparks and so forth. Guess I'll stick with H-to-G for the moment.
The latest unofficial recognizer script is
posted on the H-to-G thread now. I took chris_c's suggestions about using mirror-image canonical glider phases instead of rotationally symmetric ones, and changed the "zero line" from the X axis to the Y axis, so the reported T values are different.
I'd like to get to an "official" version soon, so we can start using the script to find permanent names for all the different H-to-Gs that have been showing up. I'm suggesting a minor change to the lane numbering system, and then I
think we should be good to go.
