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I'm trying to figure out what the period multiplier functions as. Is it a binary counter? x = 398, y = 6, rule = B2eikn3i/S12 10bob2o8bob2o8bob2o8bob2o8bob2o8bob2o8bob2o8bob2o8bob2o8bob2o8bob2o8bo ...

... be likely to. Some random thoughts on these: a) I'd not use the period in codes, since that could cause confusion with filenames and extensions. ... also helps keep codes short.) d) Actually, why not use the generic "x" multiplier you propose for linebreaks? E.g. have 1_x5-1 mean "1", five linebreaks, ...

... easiest just to absorb one glider cleanly with a block, then add a x18 multiplier circuit, and use the output of the multiplier circuit to rebuild ... patch that with beehives instead, and remove the blocks. Looks like the period will now be LCM(960,19320) = p154560...! See, that's what happens ...

... Heptominos on the track really messily, such that the mess has spatial period at least (208,16), which is 16 times (13,1), then we can move forward. As a proof of concept for the dirty option, here's a x11 natural multiplier (very dirty, 2 gliders output every 11 cycles). If I find anything ...

... My proposed drawing in that thread relies on finding an absurd period multiplier, which might exist but I didn't spend long enough searching for to find. It might ...

... good helices currently known are at ridiculously high multiples of the period (x16 and up) - one needs the helix to consist mostly of the ~0.44c ... with current helix technology there is still x5, getting such a low multiplier at 0.375c seems like very good fortune, and probably saves us ...

... long). As a proof of concept for the dirty option, here's a x11 natural multiplier (very dirty, 2 gliders output every 11 cycles). If I find anything over x16 I think it would warrant making a helix at that period. x = 329, y = 829, rule = B3/S23 o$b2o$2o19$8bo$6bobo$7b2o19$13bobo$14b2o$14bo18$21bo$22bo$20b3o19$27bo ...

... blinker trails, or rather, relative to the output gliders from the 6x period-multiplier mechanism. I guess it remains to be seen whether the lane rephasing problem can ...

... edgy block just after the first natural glider. There are also several period multipliers that can be used as block generators. Here are the other H-to-block converters ...

Period multiplier 2H->G... It might make sense to put period multipliers in a separate thread -- and luckily there's one ...

Period multiplier 2H->G

... 17.3A5$2.B$3B$.3B$.B6$10.B$10.3B$9.3B$11.B! p1512 gun 14x period multiplier also converts big glider to small glider: x = 132, y = 175, rule = BTCA1 28.B$26.3B$28.B2$27.A7.B$25.4A4.3B$26.2A6.3B$26.A7.B24.B$59.B$53.B4. ...

... Maybe this new mechanism could be turned into a period multiplier, especially if the first eater were removed or altered. But that would be a whole ...

Make oscillator with 7 times gun period: x = 49, y = 54, rule = BTCA1 13.A$11.3A$12.3A$.A10.A$.3A$3A2.B$2.A2.3B$4.3B12.A$6.B10.3A$18.3A$18. ... EDIT: A simple gun period multiplier (x4) also reflects 90 degrees: x = 59, y = 53, rule = BTCA1 24.A$22.3A$23.3A$12.A10.A$12.3A$11.3A$13.A2$32.A$30.3A$31.3A$31.A11$ ...

... for every two input signals that it accepts. It can be used as an x2 period multiplier, but in general a pulse divider doesn't require period-N input -- the timing might ...

... this pattern actually has the property of fractal and it's a standard period multiplier. I think that fractal seeking in GOL is dead end, but if you find it somewhere it ...

... a Cordership gun is to build a G->C, and then hook it up to whatever period glider gun you want. The simplest U.C./slide-gun approach will build ... It might be possible to make two optional Herschel tracks, with multiplier that at some part of the path makes timing adjustments. The first ...

... It will take a while to adjust my thinking -- I've been working with period 240, spatial period 89 (for the *WSSes) and 31 (for the Herschel climbers). ... do slow-salvo constructions -- but of course that's what we have the 6x multiplier mechanism for. Questions that come up immediately: 1) Might ...

... There was somewhere in the thread a sample of "period multiplier" that can work for large periods as well. ' Do you mean this x = 2186, y = 1360, ...

... spaced gliders/rakes There was somewhere in the thread a sample of "period multiplier" that can work for large periods as well.

... so it might be just that. Those diagonal Herschel-track binary multipliers are really fairly easy to bend -- it would only take ten minutes ... reason why I've been designing binary multipliers with Herschel-based period doublers is that there was no obvious replacement for a semi-Snark. ...

... here, but there are some interesting problems showing up in the high-period glider gun thread . It looks like it will be fairly straightforward ... and timing problems to be solved when it comes to bending the binary multiplier (and base loop and timing-adjustment circuit) around arbitrary ...

... a diagonal model will work out better in the long run. (?) #C Fx77+L156[period-doubler] binary multiplier gun, v 0.1 #C The base loop is the doubled glider loop in the lower right (temporary). ...

Luckily the binary multiplier, the base loop, and the reset-circuit adjuster all have to change size by exactly ... only potential problem that I can see is that the current smallest Herschel-based period doubler chain isn't exactly at a 45-degree angle, or even very close. Strange and ...

... for me the tricky part. By the way of course the "0" state (the minimal period of N bits) is growing with "boxi" approach. But this is not a considerable ... N-1 bits a bit bigger, but it's very small price. Luckily the binary multiplier, the base loop, and the reset-circuit adjuster all have to ...