In the p8 glider reflector and 30P6.1, the eater bridge eater is used similarly to a grin reagent, where it reacts with the grin to create another grin in 4 generations. However this application has few known uses due to its low recovery time causing it to react with the grin if it is turned again, preventing a smaller version of 128P12. It also has no drifter, so it cannot be used to create a LCM oscillator by welding it with loading dock.
Eater tie eater and welded eaters have also been used to refer to this still life on occasion, but both of these terms are technically incorrect. A weld implies an overlap between welded objects, and a tie is a point-to-point connection along the lines of a boat-tie. The name eater tie eater has been in use for many years in Mark Niemiec's database, referring to a different object that is also named as valentine.
Construction
All strict still lifes with a population of 22 or fewer cells, all oscillators with 16 or fewer cells, and all spaceships with 31 or fewer cells are known to be glider-constructible. A glider synthesis of this object can be found in the infobox to the right.
In the case of the MWSS-to-G, there are known recipes that allow the eater-bridge-eater variant to be constructed with slow salvos in any orientation, so this variant is more commonly used.
x = 45, y = 27, rule = B3/S23
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#C [[ THUMBSIZE 2 THEME 6 GRID GRIDMAJOR 0 SUPPRESS THUMBLAUNCH ]]
#C [[ THEME Book ZOOM 10 X 0 Y 0 AUTOSTART GPS 12 T 0 PAUSE 3 T 31 PAUSE 1 T 41 PAUSE 2 LOOP 42 ]]
