G-to-pi catalyst (August 2023)

G-to-pi catalyst
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Pattern type	Conduit
Conduit type	Converter
Input	Glider
Output	Pi
Number of cells	35
Step	Unknown
Recovery time (ignoring FNG if any)	11 ticks
Minimum overclock period (ignoring FNG if any)	11 ticks
Spartan?	No
Discovered by	Mitchell Riley
Year of discovery	2023
Rules Outer-totalistic rules B3/S23 – B378/S2378 # of rules 24 = 16 Isotropic rules B3/S23 – B378/S234ce6ei78
Pattern files Plaintext .cells RLE .rle

A glider-to-pi converter was found by Mitchell Riley in August 2023. The converter involves no bait objects, and consists of a block and a larger catalyst.

In the unmodified form, the output pi-heptomino hits the block only a few generations later, destroying catalysts; there are no known stable conduits that could be appended to move the reaction away. Adding an eater 1 results in a beehive factory that can be used as a compact non-Spartan beehive stopper. An unix or a mold can convert the forming beehive into a glider on the input lane, resulting in a p36 glider/pi hassler.

x = 13, y = 15, rule = B3/S23 6bo$7bo$5b3o3b2o$11b2o2$2o$o2bob2o$b3obo$5bo$b3ob3o$o2b2o3bo$bo4b2o$2b 3obo$4bobo$5bo! #C [[ THUMBSIZE 2 THEME 6 GRID GRIDMAJOR 0 SUPPRESS THUMBLAUNCH ]] #C [[ HEIGHT 600 WIDTH 600 THUMBSIZE 2 ZOOM 18 GPS 8 AUTOSTART T 0 PAUSE 2 T 18 PAUSE 1 LOOP 19 ]]

The G → pi converter (click above to open LifeViewer)

x = 45, y = 42, rule = B3/S23 29bo$30bo$28b3o2$43bo$41b3o$40bo$40b2o4$43b2o$43b2o2$32b2o$32bo2bob2o$ 33b3obo$37bo$33b3ob3o$32bo2b2o3bo$32b2o4b2o$34b4o$34bo2bo7$10b3o$12bo$ 11bo8$3o$2bo$bo! #C [[ THUMBSIZE 2 THEME 6 GRID GRIDMAJOR 0 SUPPRESS THUMBLAUNCH ]] #C [[ HEIGHT 600 WIDTH 600 THUMBSIZE 2 ZOOM 14 X 14 Y -10 GPS 20 AUTOSTART T 0 PAUSE 2 T 169 PAUSE 1 LOOP 170 ]]

A compact beehive stopper (click above to open LifeViewer)

x = 16, y = 19, rule = B3/S23 4bo9bo$2b2obo6b3o$bo9bo$obo2bo5b2o$o2bo4bo$b2o3b3o2$14b2o$14b2o2$3b2o$ 3bo2bob2o$4b3obo$8bo$4b3ob3o$3bo2b2o3bo$3b2o4b2o$5b4o$5bo2bo! #C [[ THUMBSIZE 2 THEME 6 GRID GRIDMAJOR 0 SUPPRESS THUMBLAUNCH ]] #C [[ HEIGHT 600 WIDTH 600 THUMBSIZE 2 ZOOM 18 GPS 12 AUTOSTART LOOP 360 ]]

A p36 glider/pi hassler (click above to open LifeViewer) Catagolue: here