Fx119
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| Pattern type | Conduit | ||||||||
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| Conduit type | Elementary | ||||||||
| Input | Herschel | ||||||||
| Number of cells | 26 | ||||||||
| 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.[1] 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 FNG going southwest, the "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 is only 60 ticks, but this variant of the conduit must be followed by a dependent conduit or some other glider-suppressing mechanism.
| Fast version of Fx119 (click above to open LifeViewer) RLE: here Plaintext: here |
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.
| Standard "Fx119G" suppressed variant (click above to open LifeViewer) RLE: here Plaintext: here |
See also
References
- ↑ David Buckingham (October 12, 1996). "My Experience with B-heptominos in Oscillators". Paul Callahan's Page of Conway's Life Miscellany. Retrieved on November 9, 2020.
External links
- Fx119 at the Life Lexicon
- 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