Idea: Minimal Oscillator Collection

[Extrementhusiast]

I have an idea of starting a minimal oscillator collection. An oscillator will be defined as "minimal" if it has the smallest possible stator for a given rotor. This would be quite helpful for searching through larger sizes of oscillators for useful oscillators, as I think that most of the larger oscillators are simply the smaller rotors with different stators.

[Tropylium]

I'd suggest extending this for different bushing types per stator… here's a collection (which may not be entirely minimal) for the blinker/bipole rotor for example:

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x = 34, y = 21, rule = B3/S23
10b2o$10bo$2b2ob2o4b3ob2o$bobob2o6bob2o7b2o$o2bo9bo9bobo7bo$2o3b2o8b2o
16bo$3bo2bo4bobo2bo4bobo9bo$2obobo5b2o3bobo2b2o$2ob2o12b2o4$7b2o11b2ob
2o$b2o3bobo11b2obobo$bobo2bo16bo2bo$5b2o13b2o3b2o$3bo16bo2bo$4b3o11bob
o3b3o$5bo2bo9b2o5bo2bo$3bo3b2o14bo3b2o$3b2o18b2o!

I think I've seen similar collections for other rotors at some point.

(Also if you're talking about the natural oscillators list on the wiki, I made a version for just that a while ago:
http://www.conwaylife.com/wiki/List_of_ ... s/By_rotor )

[Extrementhusiast]

I thought of that, but didn't put it in my original post.