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... build this monstrosity. The first script builds any size and shape of period-multiplier loop you want, with the exit point adjacent to the entrance point in the upper right ...

... after posting the above, I realized that a factor of 2^9 (the base loop period) had somehow fallen out of my head between late last night and early ... this monstrosity. The first script builds any size and shape of period-multiplier loop you want, with the exit point adjacent to the entrance point ...

... we'll need at least one more color -- maybe like this for the p1657? #C Period 1657 #C M -1 1 24 #C N 1 1 8 #C Delta 0 #C Output 1 1 M x = 165, y ... <dy> M means the output location moves (<dx>, <dy>) every time the M (Multiplier) assembly moves by one cell diagonally. Output <dx> <dy> N would ...

... base gun which is 4 mod 8. The 23 step extension of your 3086 gun is of period 2738. Smaller and different mod 8! :) Oops, so I did. Well, I guess I don't mind so much if odd multipliers create a different k value from even multipliers. Either way you get an ...

What's the smallest resettable loop with a multiple-of-8 period? Much better in this respect would be the p441 series... EDIT: Other ... prime periods, with as few parts as possible that need adjusting when the multiplier changes. That would be the p392 I think...Although the channel where ...

Here is a period 2754 gun based on Jormungant's p941 (different components in the reset circuitry ... I guess it's a little harder to replace the reset path in your model with different multipliers and 8N+k k values, though. You're somewhat stuck with that period tripler followed ...

... this time -- I'm waiting for Kazyan to invent a spark-assisted p7 period septupler before I tackle the general problem of periodic multiplier mechanisms. All the LifeHistory cells for the fixed guns now agree exactly with ...

The smallest period gun using this unit is probably the following, which is p1592, and using SE5T23 ... As usual there are many different gun series with other period multipliers replacing the two tremi-Snarks and one regular Snark. Unfortunately the period ...

While looking through the period-multiplier thread, I noticed this 2-out-of-3: x = 155, y = 59, rule = LifeHistory 3.3D$3.D3B$4.D3B$5.4B$6.4B$7.4B$8.4B$9.4B$10.4B$11.4B$12.4B$13.4B14. ...

Is this known? Yes, that's a very old period tripler -- Dieter Leithner, 15 May 1997. It needs a following dependent conduit ... o$12b2o7b2o! Both of these are well-known. They're collected in the period-multiplier thread among other places. I've added a link to those stamp collections ...

I made a Github repository for the prime-period guns. Thanks! So should the three prime-period guns that I posted above get ... 1-in-4 signal as an output somehow instead of having to have another period multiplier on the 3-in-4 mechanism. I tried something along those lines, but a couple ...

Is this known? Yes, that's a very old period tripler -- Dieter Leithner, 15 May 1997. It needs a following dependent conduit ... o$12b2o7b2o! Both of these are well-known. They're collected in the period-multiplier thread among other places. I've added a link to those stamp collections ...

For periods 1000-1100, I believe that varied variable period guns should work. They'll always ... might be quite a bit higher, and they might only be competitive for really big period multipliers -- e.g., make an x16 multiplier with two quadri-Snarks, and then a 15-out-of-16 ...

BlinkerSpawn wrote:

googoIpIex wrote:yes, but why is there a limit?

Because the typical gun for these periods would be some lower-period loop fed into a period multiplier.

ah.

googoIpIex wrote:yes, but why is there a limit?

Because the typical gun for these periods would be some lower-period loop fed into a period multiplier.

... your average right angle turner, stream filter, ANDNOT gate, dot eater, period multiplier etc: x = 102, y = 69, rule = B2e3aij/S02-i3-a4-i 3bo24bo4bo19bo4bo$30b2o23b2o$29b2obo21bob2o$27bo4bo21bo4bo$29bobo23bob ...

... recently. When I tried it out, it turned out to reduce the minimum period for the drive gun all the way down to 155. (!) Challenge: how much ... to 120.) I _think_ that with some increase in size, adding extra period multiplier/reflectors and lengthening the signal paths, this one could get ...

... only one problem so far with the guns currently posted on GitHub. The period 640 gun in the "variable" folder is actually period 512, and does not contain a period multiplier as the checkin note advertises. It would need a quinti-Snark and four signals ...

... That catalyst looks like half of the arbitrary period multiplier (or whatever it's actually called). What arbitrary period multiplier? I'm very curious! ...

... That catalyst looks like half of the arbitrary period multiplier (or whatever it's actually called). What arbitrary period multiplier? I'm very curious!

... That catalyst looks like half of the arbitrary period multiplier (or whatever it's actually called).

... input signals at anywhere near 48-tick repeat time. For any given multiplier and input stream, there will probably be a custom solution that's ... than a general (1/n)-Snark. Just to give an idea, here's a custom period septupler from a long time ago: #C p784 gun made from a p112 with ...

... in the Lx235 in the H-to-H collection. It has now been added to the period multiplier collection , along with the tremi-Snark. But just so it gets a little more use, ...

... on that list of true gun periods: ---------------------------------- Period Discoverers Date ---------------------------------- ... 48 Noam Elkies ... depending on whether your definition of "mechanism" includes the filter/multiplier or not! And come to think of it, that's how I've been thinking ...

I'm trying to figure out what the period multiplier functions as. Is it a binary counter? rle It's not a binary counter, it's a signal that activates ...