Talk:Dependent reflector
More periods
- p29 - https://conwaylife.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1177&p=8877&hilit=p29+dependent+reflector#p8860
- p37 - https://conwaylife.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=145205#p145205
- p57 (or is it p114?) - https://conwaylife.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1437&p=148077&hilit=Dependent+reflector#p148077
- p94? - https://conwaylife.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=3886&p=72957&hilit=Dependent+reflector#p72957 (may also be some other material to work with in that thread)
Chris857 (talk) 16:06, 3 July 2023 (UTC)
- I also saw https://conwaylife.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=533&p=3682&hilit=reflector#p3625 which a p59 reflector made of herschel tracks, which seems less interesting (and vary unwieldy) to include since the herschel spacing can be adjusted, so it seems less period dependent than the other examples here. Chris857 (talk) 20:08, 3 July 2023 (UTC)
"Dependent glider shuttle" proposal
Just to give my two cents here, "dependent reflector loop" seems to me like a much better name for this article than "dependent glider shuttle". Mainly this is because the patterns being referenced, p26 glider shuttle and p31 glider shuttle, are not actually shuttles and badly need to be renamed. Shuttles go back and forth, not round and round.
The first name was invented by codeholic back in 2014, and the second was just a copycat use of the same term by hotdogPi. Once those naming errors are repaired, it doesn't seem like there's going to be any reason to rename this article. These things really are loops made out of dependent reflectors, and that's a term that's been in use for a long time and is well recognized.
I'll probably give this a day to collect any other thoughts, then go ahead and rename those two non-glider-shuttles and patch up this article appropriately (unless I hear objections). Dvgrn (talk) 19:36, 3 July 2023 (UTC)