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Revision as of 13:24, 5 June 2020
A highway robber is any mechanism that can retrieve a signal from a spaceship lane while allowing spaceships on nearby lanes (even those a single lane away) to pass by unaffected. In practice the spaceship is generally a glider. The spaceship is removed from the lane in question, an output signal is generated elsewhere, and the highway robber returns to its original state. A competent highway robber does not affect spaceships even on the lane adjacent to the affected spaceship stream, except perhaps during the highway robber's recovery period.[1]
A stable highway robber with repeat time 878 was assembled by Chris Cain in 2016,[2] with an update by Entity Valkyrie 2 in January 2019[3] to simplify the extraction of the output signal. A simpler highway robber with improved clearance and repeat time 876 was constructed by Louis-François Handfield in May 2020.[4] Subsequent improvements by Goldtiger997 (the latter of which makes use of the Bandersnatch reduced the repeat time to 863 ticks.[5][6]
| A stable highway robber with repeat time of 863 ticks, allowing gliders to pass by on the same lane 47+ ticks after the activating glider. (click above to open LifeViewer) RLE: here Plaintext: here |
See also
References
- ↑ Dave Greene (January 22, 2007). "Stable pseudo-Heisenburp device and other P1 wiring projects". Retrieved on December 2, 2018.
- ↑ Chris Cain (March 28, 2015). "Re: The Hunting of the New Herschel Conduits". Retrieved on December 2, 2018.
- ↑ Entity Valkyrie 2 (January 10, 2019). "RLE:Highwayrobber".
- ↑ Louis-François Handfield (May 25, 2020). "Re: Highway robber challenge". Retrieved on May 25, 2020.
- ↑ Goldtiger997 (May 25, 2020). Re: Highway robber challenge (discussion thread) at the ConwayLife.com forums
- ↑ Goldtiger997 (June 5, 2020). Re: Highway robber challenge (discussion thread) at the ConwayLife.com forums
External links
- Highway robber at the Life Lexicon