Talk:Buckaroo
Fix pattern image, page in general
I'm not up to it right at the moment, but the pattern "buckaroo" is really just the shuttle without the glider and so the glider shouldn't be in the pattern image itself. Some notes and auxiliary images can be made on the page stating/showing that it can reflect gliders though. Nathaniel 21:26, 6 February 2009 (UTC)
- Weeell... it's like I fixed it! And it's not wrong or anything. Also I realised a minute too late that I basically uploaded a duplicate image (or rather a slightly up-sized version of the original one). Elithrion 22:58, 6 February 2009 (UTC)
- Also, the page could really go with an animation showing the reflection. I still have the file from my "Queen bee shuttle" one, so I could probably save a little bit of time that way. Not today, though, because big animations are still annoying. Elithrion 23:10, 6 February 2009 (UTC)
I think that it would be better if the oscillator template was used. The buckaroo is always an oscillator, but it is a reflector only under certain conditions.--Scot Ellison 12:04, 6 July 2011 (CDT)
180-degree reflector
Here is a variant that reflects the glider 180 degrees (probably not very useful because the pentadecathlon can do the same).
x = 23, y = 15, rule = B3/S23 8bo$8bobo$8b2o4$14bo$13b4o$12b2obobo$11b3obo2bo2b2o$12b2obobo3b2o$2b2o 9b4o$bobo10bo$bo$2o!
Codeholic 17:43, 24 November 2013 (UTC)
Bounds on time of discovery?
"in the 1970s" seems unspecific. Being that it was not mentioned in Lifeline Volume 11 (which in fact, on page 11, shows a larger mechanism, that supports one queen bee shuttle with the output from a Gosper glider gun), it can be assumed that its discovery wasn't published until after September 1973. Does anyone know of the date of its first mention, so we can provide an upper bound as well? DroneBetter (talk) 12:34, 20 July 2023 (UTC)