muzik wrote:Known? eater seed
You should've learnt by now to estimate the probabilities of such events.
1. You should first evaluate the probability of your result. One fast way is to use
this site or cyclyman's apgsearch hauls.
In this site you can see that statistically eater appears 1/5K soups.
2. Now you should evaluate the degrees of freedom you have:
- You have 2 SLs, if we include p2 and other common SLs in all unique orientations we will get at ~20 options.
- 2 SLs Should be placed at some distance from each other, but not too far apart - say inside 10x10 box.
- We also have a glider, this glider will have lets also assume about 10 different lanes.
We get:
20 X 20 (SL pairs) X 10 X 10 (space) X 10 (glider lane) / 2 (symmetry) = 200K.
You can now see that with single glider, and even most common SLs placed pretty tight, you will get ~ 40 eaters.
Some of the eaters would be with junk of course, and basically this means that somewhere ~5-20 such seeds would exist. Yet you don't need an extra glider, and you see this is not such a huge find even with single glider. With extra glider which is located in 10x10 box and has 4 states you will get 40 X 400 eaters - i.e. around
10K seeds like yours.
That being said - shooting glider at SL pairs to find non common SLs seeds could be indeed interesting project, and if you would bother to collect
all such options and configurations into stamp collection, this would be pretty helpful, especially when shooting single glider, and getting less common SLs - as this is important for slow salvo construction.
This brings me to another point. It's very useful to know the applications and usages of your finding. The best way to go in my opinion, is to start from projects that use already existing technology and findings, this helps you to understand what is important and missing, and what's not.