Bx106
Bx106 | |||||||||
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Pattern type | Conduit | ||||||||
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Conduit type | Elementary | ||||||||
Input | Herschel | ||||||||
Number of cells | 26 | ||||||||
Bounding box | 56 × 50 | ||||||||
Output orientation | Turned back, flipped | ||||||||
Output offset | (4, -20) | ||||||||
Step | 106 ticks | ||||||||
Recovery time (ignoring FNG if any) |
98 ticks | ||||||||
Minimum overclock period (ignoring FNG if any) |
Unknown | ||||||||
Spartan? | Yes | ||||||||
Dependent? | No | ||||||||
Discovered by | Luka Okanishi | ||||||||
Year of discovery | 2016 | ||||||||
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Bx106 is an elementary Herschel conduit. It was discovered in the form of an Fx119-based Herschel duplicator (full technical name Bx106_Fx119) with repeat time 98 by Luka Okanishi on April 13, 2016.[1] In the infobox pattern, two ghost Herschels mark the output locations.
As a duplicator, the Fx119 Herschel output must attach to a dependent conduit, as shown in the infobox with an example F166. Conversely, the other Bx106 Herschel output must be attached to an independent conduit, as the first natural glider is required to delete a leftover boat.
The duplicator was a considerable improvement on previous known Spartan technology for duplicating Herschel signals, most of which involved variants of a Silver G-to-H or Callahan G-to-H. Even non-Spartan Herschel duplication had been fairly slow and consumed a lot of time and space and half a dozen stages,[2] until the discovery of the syringe in early 2015.
If the Fx119 output is not needed, it can be suppressed as in Fx119 inserter. Other pure Bx106 variants with different FNG-cleaning mechanisms and additional gliders have also been found,[3] in particular a Spartan merge conduit that accommodates Fx119 at the same time by Luka on November 13, 2021.[4] The latter conduit even has an extra century output from the Bx106 reaction; the left variant shown below suppresses it with an eater, whereas the right one treats it with the century-to-glider converter as in CP semi-cenark. Both will absorb the second natural glider safely from the alternative Fx119 input.
Luka Okanishi's Bx106_Fx119 merge conduit in 2021; ghost Herschel for output, "broken" ghost Herschel for Fx119 input (click above to open LifeViewer) RLE: here Plaintext: here |
A pure Bx106 that can tolerate the FNG of the output Herschel, and can be connected to both dependent and independent conduits (click above to open LifeViewer) |
See also
References
- ↑ Luka Okanishi (April 13, 2016). Re: The Hunting of the New Herschel Conduits (discussion thread) at the ConwayLife.com forums
- ↑ Adam P. Goucher (January 10, 2012). Re: Thread For Your Accidental Discoveries (discussion thread) at the ConwayLife.com forums
- ↑ MathAndCode (April 20, 2021). Re: The Hunting of the New Herschel Conduits (discussion thread) at the ConwayLife.com forums
- ↑ Entity Valkyrie (November 13, 2021). Re: The Hunting of the New Herschel Conduits (discussion thread) at the ConwayLife.com forums
- Patterns
- Patterns with 26 cells
- Patterns found by Luka Okanishi
- Patterns found in 2016
- Conduits
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- Herschel conduits
- Conduits with output orientation Bx
- Conduits with output offset (4, -20)
- Conduits with recovery time 98
- Spartan conduits
- Independent conduits
- Conduits with output offset (20, 14)
- Conduits with output orientation Fx