Fx119
| Fx119 | |||||||||
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| Pattern type | Conduit | ||||||||
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| Conduit type | Elementary | ||||||||
| Input | Herschel | ||||||||
| Number of cells | 26 | ||||||||
| Bounding box | 10 × 9 | ||||||||
| Output orientation | Unturned, flipped | ||||||||
| Output offset | (20, 14) | ||||||||
| Step | 119 ticks | ||||||||
| Recovery time (ignoring FNG if any) |
231 ticks | ||||||||
| Minimum overclock period (ignoring FNG if any) |
Unknown | ||||||||
| Spartan? | Yes | ||||||||
| Dependent? | No | ||||||||
| Discovered by | David Buckingham | ||||||||
| Year of discovery | 1996 | ||||||||
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Fx119 is an elementary conduit, one of the original sixteen Herschel conduits, discovered by Dave Buckingham on September 15, 1996. After 119 ticks, it produces an inverted Herschel at (20, 14) relative to the input. Its recovery time is 231 ticks; this can be reduced somewhat by suppressing the output Herschel's glider, or by adding extra catalysts to make the reaction settle more quickly, as shown below. Appending a dependent conduit to a standard Fx119 can reduce the repeat time to 160 ticks.
The standard Fx119 conduit produces 3 gliders: the SW-2T21 first natural glider going southwest, the NW31T120 second natural glider going northwest, and then another southwest-traveling glider.
In the pattern shown in the infobox, a ghost Herschel marks the output location.
Variants
The fast version of Fx119 has a repeat time of only 60 ticks, but this variant of the conduit must be followed by a dependent conduit or some other glider-suppressing mechanism.
The standard "Fx119G" suppressed variant has a repeat time of 196 ticks. No following dependent conduit is needed here. Instead, an extra block is created that absorbs the following Herschel's first natural glider.
| Fast version of Fx119 (click above to open LifeViewer) RLE: here Plaintext: here |
| Standard "Fx119G" suppressed variant (click above to open LifeViewer) RLE: here Plaintext: here |
See also
External links
- Fx119 at the Life Lexicon
- Buckingham on B-heptominos in oscillators at Paul Callahan's Page of Conway's Life Miscellany
- Patterns
- Patterns with 26 cells
- Patterns found by David Buckingham
- Patterns found in 1996
- Outer-totalistically endemic patterns
- Isotropically endemic patterns
- Conduits
- Elementary conduits
- Herschel conduits
- Conduits with output orientation Fx
- Conduits with output offset (20, 14)
- Conduits with recovery time 231
- Spartan conduits
- Independent conduits