I ran into a couple of problems with the most recent catamaran diagram, that kept me from working on it any further. But now that we have a fairly short Heisenburp HWSS side-puffer recipe, it seems quite possible that a couple of longhorn-beetle front ends in a catamaran design could supply each other's lateral forward glider streams, leaving just two outside streams on each side to be built with kickbacks from the two leading block trails. That would be four HWSSes, just like the shield-bug design.codeholic wrote:I meant the catamaran design, but it needs a search script to be written, and it's not guaranteed that it will work out.
... Then again, we'd have the same total number of kickbacks to solve with a single six-trail 116x5-spaced front end. Is there some way to set things up so that a catamaran design really gives a clear advantage?
I've mentioned the next idea a few times before, maybe incoherently, so sorry for the duplication. Would it help to build a single LWSS (let's say) along with the two HWSS upship streams, and then use slow salvos to produce reverse forward streams to support block-trail construction? No shield-bug monstrosity required.
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#C LWSS+forward G = slow-salvo target
x = 71, y = 95, rule = B3/S23
8b3o$3o5bo$o2bo5bo$o$o$bobo24$68b3o$68bo$69bo59$3o$o2bo$o$o$bobo!
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#C MWSS+2G -> reverse lateral forward glider plus a block target
#C The target block could be slow-salvo transformed into
#C a second lateral forward glider stream, some distance lower down.
x = 196, y = 274, rule = B3/S23
10bo$2bo6b2o$b3o5bobo$2obo$3o$3o$b2o23$70bo$69b2o$69bobo27$130bo$129b
2o$129bobo27$190bo$189b2o$189bobo$2bo$b3o$2obo$3o$3o$b2o12$13b3o$13bo$
14bo27$73b3o$73bo$74bo27$133b3o$133bo$134bo12$2bo$b3o$2obo$3o$3o$b2o
10$193b3o$193bo$194bo72$2bo$b3o$2obo$3o$3o$b2o!
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#C HWSS+2G -> reverse lateral forward glider plus junk
x = 202, y = 274, rule = B3/S23
2b3o$bo2bo$4bo6b2o$o3bo6bobo$o3bo6bo$4bo$bobo12$19b3o$19bo$20bo11$71b
2o$71bobo$71bo14$79b3o$79bo$80bo11$131b2o$131bobo$131bo14$139b3o$139bo
$140bo11$2b3o186b2o$bo2bo186bobo$4bo186bo$o3bo$o3bo$4bo$bobo10$199b3o$
199bo$200bo71$2b3o$bo2bo$4bo$o3bo$o3bo$4bo$bobo83$2b3o$bo2bo$4bo$o3bo$
o3bo$4bo$bobo!