Shotgun

A shotgun is a gun formed of many smaller guns with their output sharing a common path, used to create salvoes for syntheses. Typically reflectors (either stationary, or employing kickback reactions) are used to reposition the guns' output on close-by parallel paths.

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Sawtooth 181 illustrates a 2-glider (NE to SW) shotgun (click above to open LifeViewer) RLE: here Plaintext: here

External links

• Shotgun at the Life Lexicon