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There is an easy modification of the diagonal c/4 advancer spaceship to change the period a bit. The backward-to-ship converter can be shifted forwards by 128 cells, which increases the period by 256 generations. This can be repeated for a few times as long as there is room. Some of the new periods ...

Here is an application of the triggered glider advancer spaceship. #C A diagonal c/4 period 41728 (163 * 256) irregular sideways rake. #C This contains eight period 256 glider advancer spaceships which #C advance three unequally spaced gliders in a loop and generate an #C output glider as each one g...

I combined the diagonal c/4 triggered advancer with the periodic wick trimmer to make this. #C A diagonal c/4 period 256 glider advancer spaceship. #C This spaceship is able to advance a glider (when present) #C arbitrarily far towards the front of the spaceship. #C This allows a signal to be sent f...

I finished one of the wick trimming reactions for the diagonal c/4 technology. #C A reaction which trims off the end of a useful wick. #C This uses two gliders to sever the wick and a third glider to force #C the burning of the lower section of the wick to the desired mode. #C There are two blocks r...

I looked for good ignitions for the diagonal c/4 fuse when hit by the evolving debris from the usual sparker fed by a single glider. I don't know how exhaustive this list is, it was generated manually. There were quite a few of them, actually. These reactions only occur at the end of the wick, and s...

I found two new perturbations that remove debris from the diagonal c/4 glider advancer convoy. One of them is a small spaceship that suppresses the blockade when the fuse is ignited. The second one is the smallest spaceship which suppresses the blinker produced when the advancer emits its glider. #C...

I got one of the forward glider producing diagonal c/4 convoys finished. #C A diagonal c/4 convoy to produce a forward glider. #C The glider is produced far away from the convoy. #C This leaves some junk that needs to be cleaned up. #C David I. Bell, 11 April 2024 x = 301, y = 295 8bo10boo$7b5o6boo$...

> It might also be possible to ignite the glider-advancer wick without the intermediate glider The diagonal c/4 wick burning reaction can be directly passed on between adjacent fuses by deleting the glider-producing spaceship. #C One diagonal c/4 fuse-burning reaction igniting an adjacent one. x = 2...

> is there any possibility that the correctly-oriented fuse can be ignited from either side, so that we don't have to pass a glider between the advancers? I've never seen an ignition which works from the other side to create the correct fuse. But the wick can be ignited by a forwards glider, which i...

> All that's left is to reflect and position the output glider stream so that it becomes the input stream That was a bit fiddly, but here it is. #C A diagonal c/4 period 1160 engineless puffer. #C This uses five glider advancer convoys to create a glider loop of four gliders. #C Different periods an...

The improvements made to the front of the wickstretcher convoy allows the minimum period of the diagonal c/4 adjustable rakes to be reduced again. I was able to remove another of the glider advancing convoys. #C A diagonal c/4 period 2756 slightly dirty sideways rake. #C Adjustments can be made to t...

Here is the third glider advancer for diagonal c/4 technology to send a signal forwards towards the front of the convoy. The two previous advancers where based on a kickback glider stream crawler and a fuse crawler. This new one is based on a wickstretcher and the ignition of its wick. It is the sma...

I removed some of the glider redirection convoys, and so reduced the period of the diagonal c/4 puffers. #C A diagonal c/4 period 3488 slightly dirty sideways rake. #C Adjustments can be made to the rear convoys to create #C all higher period rakes, and a few slightly lower. #C This is a smaller ver...

This appears to be the basis of a fully configurable diagonal c/4 puffer. #C A diagonal c/4 period 6604 puffer. #C This is adjustable to other periods by shifting the backward #C glider to ship converter convoy near the back by a multiple #C of two cells. Each such shift changes the period by four #...

Here is something which might be very useful. #C A diagonal c/4 convoy which burns a wick, restarts it, and leaves #C debris which can be perturbed in many ways. #C David I. Bell, 6 April 2024 x = 215, y = 197 8boo$7boo$boo5bo$oo5boo$bbo4bobobboo$4boo3boob4o$4boo10bo$16bo$10bo$ 12boo3boo$17b4o23boo$...

I found a third wick burning termination reaction for the diagonal c/4 wickstretcher. This one is better than the other two I recently posted because the endpoint of the newly built wick has the boat shape. This means that it can be repeatedly ignited by single glider impacts. #C A reaction for a di...

I went back to the original diagonal c/4 rake and replaced its glider reactions with new convoys. This improved its speed greatly. #C A diagonal c/4 period 2044 dirty puffer. #C This is the first of a series of puffers with an adjustable period. #C Shifting the top right convoys right by six cells a...

I just edited my previous post to include the puffer I had mentioned, and it's no record holder, sigh. > I'm wondering if there is a way to perform the reignition much faster than p4508. That original puffer can probably be sped up using modern convoys. For example, one of the convoys I have boosts ...

I think this is the basis of a simple variable period diagonal c/4 puffer. #C A diagonal c/4 double wickstretcher leaves debris when it burns #C out and restarts, which can be animated to eventually reignite #C the wick. This is done by using sparking spaceships to create #C loafs and pull them away...

This might be a way to build a configurable period fuse-burning diagonal c/4 spaceship. #C A failed tandum boat-stretcher based diagonal c/4 spaceship. #C Two boat stretchers run parallel to each other. When one #C emits a sideways glider, that impacts onto the second wick, #C starting it burning. W...

Now that we can period multiply a diagonal c/4 period 64 rake and have a glider stream merging convoy, this is small enough to build. This solves one of the desired diagonal c/4 rake periods (sort of:). #C A diagonal c/4 pseudo-period 68 sideways rake. #C This uses a period 1088 (17 * 64) rake as in...

The diagonal c/4 forward-ship-to-sideways-glider animation convoy can be modified to insert a new glider into a sideways glider stream. #C A diagonal c/4 convoy to allow gliders to share the same stream. #C This uses a forward facing ship to sideways glider convoy to #C insert a new glider into the ...

I improved the fuse-building synthesis used for my diagonal c/4 period multiplying convoy so that the fuse units can be repeated with the minimum possible separation, and which also removes one of the input gliders. This new synthesis can be used for periods 60 and above, instead of the previous 68....

I went back to an old idea that I had dismissed before as being too hard, and it turns out that it wasn't hard at all and even makes things very simple. The problem with the newer smaller diagonal c/4 period multiplication convoy was that the ignition rake's period had to be the same as the input ra...

Here is a diagonal c/4 convoy which can send a signal forwards. This is much better than the glider-kickback crawling mechanism that I showed a while ago. #C A diagonal c/4 convoy which can send a signal forwards. #C This uses a period 72 rake as input to a convoy which builds a #C fuse and another ...