Talk:One-time turner
Hmm, now that the splitters aren't all described as highway robbers, that last one I added is looking pretty ugly. It was just there because it's the only 2-still-life highway-robbing splitter with the same properties as the loaf and block: the gliders have different parities and colors. Probably I should have just gotten rid of the highway-robber requirement instead of trying to come up with a substitute that made sense with the whole existing description.
Maybe it would be good to substitute a faster splitter with some other interesting feature, like one that sends a glider off to the side but leaves another glider on the exact same input lane. That allows the splitter be added in to an existing one-time-turner sequence to get an extra glider out ... as long as it's okay for the glider's timing to change a little bit:
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Like a number of these splitters, this is really just a turner (the long-boat turner) -- plus an additional boat that uses a transient spark to create an extra glider.
It seems like a good idea to not go overboard adding splitters to this stamp collection, though. This is the "turners" article, and really what we need instead is to add a much bigger stamp collection to the splitters article. Three splitters seems like plenty enough of a random tangent, even when this last one above is really just a turner in disguise plus an extra boat to turn into glider #2. Dvgrn (talk) 02:59, 9 February 2019 (UTC)
HWSS turner
This was briefly discussed on the forums in 2018:
- dani » August 2nd, 2018, 12:52 pm
- I found this reaction posted by user 'Hunting':
x = 4, y = 12, rule = B3/S23 b2o$o2bo$o2bo$b2o2$2bo$b3o$2obo$3o$3o$3o$b2o!
- Although it's probably been seen many times. My question is, how would I go about searching for a reaction that turns this into a clean HWSS reflector? It seems possible, although I don't know much about conduit searching.
At the time Dave commented:
- …it would take a serious stroke of luck to convert it into a clean HWSS (…) The reaction is mostly inside the reaction envelope of the collision --
which suggests to me that no tamed version of any sort was known.
A few minutes of toying with manually placed catalysts however reveals that a great variety of objects with a hook indeed suffice to clean this up to give an output HWSS:
x = 61, y = 60, rule = B3/S23 59b2o$60bo$bo5b2o48bo$obo3bo2bo47b2o$bobo2bo2bo$2b2o3b2o$58b2o$57bo2bo $57bo2bo$58b2o5$43b2o$42bobo$42bo$43bo$12bo6b2o20bobo$12b3o3bo2bo19b2o $15bo2bo2bo$14b2o3b2o$42b2o$41bo2bo$41bo2bo$36b2o4b2o$35bobo$35bo$13b 2o4b2o12bobo$13bo4bo2bo11b2o$15bo2bo2bo$14b2o3b2o$34b2o$20bo12bo2bo$ 19b3o11bo2bo$18b2obo12b2o$18b3o$18b3o$18b3o$19b2o4$15b2o$14bo2bo$14bo 2bo$15b2o$30b2o3b2o$29bo2bo2bobo$16b2o11bo2bo3bobo$13bobobo12b2o6bo$3b 2o8b2o23b2o$2bo2bo$2bo2bo$3b2o$38b2o3b2o$37bo2bo2bobo$4b2o31bo2bo3bo$ 3bobo32b2o5b3o$4bo42bo!
Towards the construction of a stable reflector, no especially simple still lifes seem to output a G or H to be fed into bait reconstruction circuitry. Adding third catalysts would probably achieve this, left as a future exercise. --Tropylium (talk) 01:31, 18 September 2021 (UTC)
Completed:
x = 20, y = 9, rule = Life 5b2o6b6o$4bo2bo5bo5bo$4bo2bo5bo$5b2o7bo4bo$2o14b2o$2o$6b2o$5bobo$6bo!
-wwei23, 11:05 PM 9/17/2021