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by Goldtiger997
November 12th, 2022, 12:43 am
Forum: Patterns
Topic: Make a Spaceship With an Adjustable Slope
Replies: 69
Views: 7762

Re: Make a Spaceship With an Adjustable Slope

I constructed a new type of fast orthogonal ship, which I guess could be called a Speed Orthogonal Loopship: 137457528c309254024 spaceship.mc The attached spaceship is glide symmetric, with a velocity of 137457528c/309254024 (or about 4c/9). It can be adjusted to arbitrarily fast velocities by movin...
by Goldtiger997
September 15th, 2022, 6:13 am
Forum: Patterns
Topic: H-to-G and H-to-Gn converter collection
Replies: 275
Views: 195138

Re: H-to-G and H-to-Gn converter collection

Two fairly similar H-to-Gs: NE10T23 and NE-7T58. x = 130, y = 71, rule = LifeHistory 6.D3.D.5D3.D4.3D2.5D2.3D3.3D40.D3.D.5D7.5D.5D.5D2.3D$6.2D2.D.D6.2D3.D 3.D3.D3.D3.D.D3.D39.2D2.D.D15.D3.D3.D5.D3.D$6.D.D.D.D7.D3.D2.2D3.D7.D 5.D39.D.D.D.D14.D4.D3.D5.D3.D$6.D2.2D.3D5.D3.D.D.D3.D6.D4.2D40.D2.2D. 3D3.5...
by Goldtiger997
August 18th, 2022, 10:28 am
Forum: Patterns
Topic: Still Life Synthesis Thread
Replies: 618
Views: 179620

Re: Still Life Synthesis Thread

Beehive-push catalyst in 126G: x = 2413, y = 60, rule = B3/S23 324bo79bo$325b2o75b2o$64bo259b2o77b2o169bobo535bobo$65bo508b2o537b2o$ 63b3o12bo257bo55bo172bo9bo537bo9bo$2bo74bo258bobo51bobo173b2o553b2o$ob o74b3o245bo10b2o53b2o10bo161b2o5bo543bo5b2o$b2o64bo258b2o73b2o167b2o 545b2o$6bo61b2o5bo249b2o75b...
by Goldtiger997
August 16th, 2022, 1:49 am
Forum: Patterns
Topic: Stable signal converters
Replies: 426
Views: 314815

Re: Stable signal converters

I was writing up the recent semi-natural dart soup today, and it made me think of checking the Stable Signal Converters thread. How can we not have any glider-to-dart technology yet? It's only 25 gliders, and it's been that way for over half a decade. Is there some prior art out there that I've tot...
by Goldtiger997
July 28th, 2022, 10:05 pm
Forum: Patterns
Topic: Synthesis components
Replies: 208
Views: 56468

Re: Synthesis components

Does someone know a motif for this? x = 33, y = 9, rule = B3/S23 3bob2o20bob2o$3b2obo20b2obo$b2o13bo8b2o$o3b2o11bo6bo3b2o$4obo12bo5b4o b3o$12b8o12bo$2o16bo5b2o5b2o$2o15bo6b2o$16bo! A nice trick to try to solve these sorts of problems yourself is to look at the Catagolue page for similar (probably s...
by Goldtiger997
July 25th, 2022, 3:15 am
Forum: Patterns
Topic: Stable signal converters
Replies: 426
Views: 314815

Re: Stable signal converters

I made G-to-LWSS and G-to-MWSS converters with repeat time 61 using Kazyan's new G-to-H : x = 306, y = 178, rule = LifeHistory 41.5B13.2A$41.5B12.A.A$41.5B6.2A4.A$41.5B4.A2.A2.2A.4A$41.5B4.2A.A.A. A.A2.A$41.5B7.A.ABABAB$41.5B7.A.AB2AB$41.5B8.AB.2B$41.5B11.3B$41.5B 11.4B6.2A$41.5B9.3B2AB6.A$41.5B9.3B...
by Goldtiger997
July 24th, 2022, 12:47 am
Forum: Patterns
Topic: 74/75/78+ Single-Channel Toolkit Challenge
Replies: 9
Views: 5897

Re: 74/75/78+ Single-Channel Toolkit Challenge

Has anyone looked into finding slow-salvo recipes for a standard syringe catalyst? I seem to remember the topic came up a while back, but I'm not sure how much progress was made. If slmake had recipes for all orientations of that catalyst, then single-channel elbow operations could allow gliders as...
by Goldtiger997
July 16th, 2022, 3:52 am
Forum: Patterns
Topic: Stable signal converters
Replies: 426
Views: 314815

Re: Stable signal converters

I made an updated version of simek's table of syringe+H-to-G glider reflectors : x = 865, y = 1488, rule = LifeHistory 20.A.A.A.A21.A.A167.A2$18.A7.A23.A2$18.A15.A.A.A11.A11.A.A.A5.A.A5.A. A5.A.A3.A.A17.A.A3.A.A7.A.A3.A.A7.A.A.A9.A.A.A.A7.A.A.A7.A.A3.A.A3.A. A.A3.A.A.A5.A.A7.A.A3.A.A9.A.A3.A.A5.A.A2...
by Goldtiger997
July 1st, 2022, 12:23 pm
Forum: Patterns
Topic: Small Spaceship Syntheses
Replies: 730
Views: 559425

Re: Small Spaceship Syntheses

Better partial syntheses for B29 with trailing glider #2, distilled from existing stdin partials on Catagolue. All that's missing is a way to inject a sideways pi from below. I found a suitable pi inserter: x = 86, y = 84, rule = B3/S23 o$b2o$2o3bo$6b2o$5b2o12$83bo$81b2o$82b2o5$12bo$13b2o$12b2o28bo...
by Goldtiger997
June 29th, 2022, 4:35 am
Forum: Patterns
Topic: Small Spaceship Syntheses
Replies: 730
Views: 559425

Re: Small Spaceship Syntheses

29P3H1V0 in 38 gliders: x = 759, y = 73, rule = B3/S23 736bo$736bobo$736b2o$665bobo$666b2o$666bo3$690bobo42bo$691b2o42bobo$ 685bo5bo43b2o$686bo$684b3o69bobo$756b2o$757bo$135bo$135bobo532bo$135b 2o534bo4bo$416bo252b3o5bo$415bo259b3o33bo$415b3o292bo$710b3o$756bo$ 755bo$755b3o$11bo$9b2o733bo$10b2o732bo...
by Goldtiger997
June 25th, 2022, 7:16 am
Forum: Patterns
Topic: Small Spaceship Syntheses
Replies: 730
Views: 559425

Re: Small Spaceship Syntheses

Synthesis for a pair of 46P4H1V0s escorting a toad: x = 3950, y = 210, rule = B3/S23 3731bo$3732b2o$3731b2o216bo$3941bo5b2o$3940bo7b2o$3940b3o29$3888bo$ 3886b2o$3871bo15b2o$3869b2o$3870b2o8bobo$3880b2o$3881bo2$3728bobo$ 3729b2o$3729bo152bo$3880b2o$3881b2o2$3741bo$3739bobo$3740b2o2$3877bo$ 3877bobo$3...
by Goldtiger997
June 16th, 2022, 9:20 am
Forum: Patterns
Topic: Small Spaceship Syntheses
Replies: 730
Views: 559425

Re: Small Spaceship Syntheses

30P3H1V0 in 32 gliders: x = 634, y = 52, rule = B3/S23 588bo38bo$589bo36bo$587b3o36b3o$613bo$607bo4bo$598bo8bobo2b3o$596bobo 8b2o13bo$597b2o22bo$621b3o$606bo19bo$607b2o17bobo$606b2o18b2o2$587bo$ 585bobo$bo584b2o$2bo624bo$3o99b2o98b2o99bo99bo99bo99bo23bobo$102b2o9bo 88b2o98bobo97bobo97bobo97bobo22b2o...
by Goldtiger997
June 13th, 2022, 7:36 am
Forum: Patterns
Topic: Make a Spaceship With an Adjustable Slope
Replies: 69
Views: 7762

Re: Make an Omniship

I've thought a bit more about the omniship design I mentioned in my previous post. In addition to the toggle MWSS and the two trigger MWSSs, I think we need a fourth non-single-channel MWSS (call it the ringmaster MWSS) for the purpose of opening the second output of the Scorbie Splitter once the Sn...
by Goldtiger997
May 29th, 2022, 3:01 am
Forum: Patterns
Topic: Make a Spaceship With an Adjustable Slope
Replies: 69
Views: 7762

Re: Make an Omniship

Seems like the Omniship design is going to be somewhat trickier, with two different recipes swapping places for the "northward" and "westward" travel stages -- one recipe is used-and-transmitted, and the other is just transmitted, and then their roles reverse in the next stage. Or is there a way to...
by Goldtiger997
May 11th, 2022, 12:34 am
Forum: Patterns
Topic: Binary slow salvos
Replies: 258
Views: 68009

Re: Binary slow salvos

Another optimization problem, if someone is interested, is the question of how many objects are needed to make a clean one-time Corderabsorber -- with an option to release an output glider. I spent a couple of minutes with Seeds of Destruction and got the cost down to six still lifes for each of th...
by Goldtiger997
April 15th, 2022, 6:19 am
Forum: Patterns
Topic: Make a Spaceship With an Adjustable Slope
Replies: 69
Views: 7762

Re: Make a Spaceship With an Adjustable Slope

I made a script which builds a Speed Orthogonoid (predecessor) for any given any sub-c/2 orthogonal speed. A lot of the code is borrowed from dvgrn's equivalent script for Speed Demonoids (though my script doesn't produce a glider synthesis). # so-predecessor-builder-v1.py # Lots of code is borrowed...
by Goldtiger997
April 9th, 2022, 1:55 am
Forum: Patterns
Topic: Make a Spaceship With an Adjustable Slope
Replies: 69
Views: 7762

Re: Make a Spaceship With an Adjustable Slope

Nice! How easily could this be adapted to make a clean rake? It's very easy. Attached is a predecessor to a 4c/9 HashLife-friendly forerake. To convert it back to a spaceship, simply remove the 21st to the 45th glider in the tape (zoom in to the NW end of the glider stream): 4c9-hf-rake-predecessor...
by Goldtiger997
April 8th, 2022, 5:42 am
Forum: Patterns
Topic: Make a Spaceship With an Adjustable Slope
Replies: 69
Views: 7762

Re: Make a Spaceship With an Adjustable Slope

.... a big shame about the missing speeds. At some point, it would nice to rebuild the Speed Orthogonoid with a design that avoids that problem, such as the one dvgrn posted here Seems like that will be a relatively easy job, now that the blinker-puffer seeds and recipes are in working order. Yep, ...
by Goldtiger997
April 5th, 2022, 1:35 am
Forum: Patterns
Topic: POTY 2021 Voting Thread
Replies: 44
Views: 4727

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by Goldtiger997
April 2nd, 2022, 5:53 am
Forum: Patterns
Topic: Make a Spaceship With an Adjustable Slope
Replies: 69
Views: 7762

Re: Make an Omniship

Now that it's no longer April Fool's day, I'll give some more detail about the Speed Orthogonoid I posted. The velocity I posted is correct, but the approximate velocity is better described c/2.714, rather than c/2.718. Here's the underlying design that was used: x = 715, y = 706, rule = LifeHistory...
by Goldtiger997
April 1st, 2022, 11:54 am
Forum: Patterns
Topic: Make a Spaceship With an Adjustable Slope
Replies: 69
Views: 7762

Re: Make an Omniship

Today seemed liked a good day to complete* the Speed Orthogonoid. The velocity of the spaceship below is (0,56000466)c/152004592, which is approximately c/2.718: orthogonoidv1!.mc It should be adjustable to arbitrary orthogonal velocities slower than c/2, and also adjustable into HashLife-friendline...
by Goldtiger997
March 28th, 2022, 11:04 am
Forum: Patterns
Topic: Make a Spaceship With an Adjustable Slope
Replies: 69
Views: 7762

Re: Make a Spaceship With an Adjustable Slope

Here's an alternative HashLife friendly design which slsparse says is slightly cheaper to build (335KB vs 345KB): x = 309, y = 516, rule = LifeHistory 40.6B$39.6B$40.6B$39.6B$40.6B$39.6B$40.6B$39.6B$40.6B$39.6B$40.6B$9. 2A28.6B$8.B2AB28.6B$9.2B21.B6.6B$4.B3.2B21.3B6.6B$3.2AB.4B18.6B4.7B 10.2A$3.2A8B...
by Goldtiger997
March 27th, 2022, 9:42 am
Forum: Patterns
Topic: Make a Spaceship With an Adjustable Slope
Replies: 69
Views: 7762

Re: Make a Spaceship With an Adjustable Slope

I put together the full *WSS salvo. Turn the red cells on at some even generation greater than 10000, and two faraway MWSS-to-G converters with SPEBOEs will be created (run in Golly): x = 95, y = 5175, rule = LifeHistory 48.A4.3A$47.3A3.A2.A$40.3A3.2A.A3.A$40.A2.A2.3A4.A3.A$40.A5.3A4.A$40. A3.A.3A5....
by Goldtiger997
March 26th, 2022, 10:29 am
Forum: Patterns
Topic: Make a Spaceship With an Adjustable Slope
Replies: 69
Views: 7762

Re: Make a Spaceship With an Adjustable Slope

I sure can't think of any big improvements immediately. Maybe it's worth test-compiling something like this...to see if it's any cheaper. It's a shame to not use the 45-degree MWSS-to-G recipes now that slsparse has them, but on the other hand I think this design ought to be adjustable to be HashLi...
by Goldtiger997
March 25th, 2022, 9:22 am
Forum: Patterns
Topic: Make a Spaceship With an Adjustable Slope
Replies: 69
Views: 7762

Re: Make an Omniship

I realised that the current fuse-lighting plan has the nice property that we only need one trigger glider (unlike the two in the speed demonoid). Delaying the trigger glider increases the distance to both of the faraway targets, and appropriately, the distance change for the further target is twice ...