Making a gun with the 4 gliders to 5 gliders reaction

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Making a gun with the 4 gliders to 5 gliders reaction

Post by googleplex » January 25th, 2018, 1:01 pm

This topic is for making a gun using the reaction that makes 5 gliders from 4 gliders:

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#C 4 gliders synthesize 5 gliders
#C reaction #1, left (Dietrich Leithner, 19 Jul 1992)
#C reaction #2, right (Dietrich Leithner, 21 Sep 1996)
x = 120, y = 65, rule = B3/S23
60bo2$60bo2$60bo2$60bo2$obo57bo$b2o$bo58bo2$60bo2$60bo2$60bo2$60bo2$
60bo2$60bo$117bobo$60bo56b2o$118bo$60bo2$60bo2$60bo2$17bo42bo$15bobo2b
o$16b2o2bobo20bo16bo$20b2o20b2o$42bobo15bo2$60bo2$60bo2$60bo2$60bo2$
60bo$92bo$60bo29bobo2bo$76bo14b2o2bobo$60bo15b2o17b2o$75bobo$60bo2$60b
o2$60bo2$60bo2$60bo2$60bo2$60bo!
I need help turning this into a gun.
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Re: Making a gun with the 4 gliders to 5 gliders reaction

Post by Majestas32 » January 25th, 2018, 1:21 pm

I believe it was proven one can't make a gun with such a reaction alone but then and again somebody can do a complicated Snark setup
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Re: Making a gun with the 4 gliders to 5 gliders reaction

Post by googleplex » January 25th, 2018, 2:01 pm

Well, let's try. First off, which glider should be the output?
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Re: Making a gun with the 4 gliders to 5 gliders reaction

Post by Majestas32 » January 25th, 2018, 2:27 pm

Either the NW or NE one. I think the NE one since we can do a double snark with some Herschel conduit glider adjustment voodoo magic
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Re: Making a gun with the 4 gliders to 5 gliders reaction

Post by chris_c » January 25th, 2018, 2:40 pm

googleplex wrote:This topic is for making a gun using the reaction that makes 5 gliders from 4 gliders:

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rle
I need help turning this into a gun.
The input and output gliders in first reaction can be separated using only reflectors. I don't know if the outputs can be connected back to the inputs using only reflectors but it would be fun to try.

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x = 149, y = 120, rule = B3/S23
15bo$13bobo26b2o$14b2o26b2o$28bo75bo$28b3o74b2o$31bo9bob2o59b2o$30b2o
9bobo$42bo$35bo6b2o$34bobo5b2o$34bo2bo4b2o$35b2o90b2o$57b2o68bo$55bo2b
o66bobo$72bo52b2o$55bo2bo11b3o$56bo2bo9bo$57bobo9b2o50b2o$58bo61bo2bo$
65bo54bobo$57b2o5bobo54bo$57b2o4bo2bo$64b2o2$125b2o$121b2obo2bob2o$
121b2o2bo4bo$126bo$127bobo17$b2o$obo$2bo28$128b2o$124b2o2b2o2b2o$124bo
bo2bo2b2o$125b3o$126b2o3$124bo$123bobo$123bo2bo$124b2o3$128b2o$128bobo
$130bo$130b2o14$137b2o5b2o$137b2o5bo$142bobo$142b2o$138b2o$138bobo$
139bo$143bo$142b3o$141b3obo$142bo3bo$88b2o53bo3bo$87bobo54bob3o$89bo
55b3o$146bo!

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Re: Making a gun with the 4 gliders to 5 gliders reaction

Post by dvgrn » January 25th, 2018, 4:18 pm

chris_c wrote:
googleplex wrote:This topic is for making a gun using the reaction that makes 5 gliders from 4 gliders:

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rle
I need help turning this into a gun.
The input and output gliders in first reaction can be separated using only reflectors. I don't know if the outputs can be connected back to the inputs using only reflectors but it would be fun to try.
Just for the record, Jason Summers did put together a couple of variations on this theme, back in 2002:

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#C p133 glider gun based on the 4G->5G reaction
#C    using p7 reflectors
x = 473, y = 298, rule = B3/S23
108bobbobbo$108b7obbo$115b3o$110b4o$109bobob3o$109bobo4bo$108boobob3ob
o$70boo37bo5bobo$71bo37bob4obboo$71bobo34boobbobobo$72boo36boobbobo10b
o$110boboboboo7b3o$107booboboobo8bo$107bobboobobo8boo$108boo3boboo$
110b3o5bo3bo$110bo3b3obobbobo$111b3o4bo3boobboo$113boboo9boo$115bo$
113bobo$113boo$86boo38bo$86bobo36boo$86bo38bobo6$406bobbobbo$117bobbo
bbo282b7obbo$117b7obbo286b3o$124b3o281b4o$119b4o284bobob3o$118bobob3o
282bobo4bo$118bobo4bo280boobob3obo$117boobob3obo280bo5bobo$118bo5bobo
280bob4obboo$118bob4obboo278boobbobobo$117boobbobobo219bobbobbo56boobb
obo10bo$119boobbobo10bo205bobb7o56boboboboo7b3o$119boboboboo7b3o205b3o
60booboboobo8bo$116booboboobo8bo212boobo55bobboobobo8boo$116bobboobobo
8boo209b3obobo55boo3boboo$117boo3boboo217bo3bobbo57b3o5bo3bo$119b3o5bo
3bo210boboobooboo56bo3b3obobbobo$119bo3b3obobbobo209bobo3bobo58b3o4bo
3boobboo$120b3o4bo3boobboo204boobb4obo60boboo9boo$92bobo27boboo9boo
206bobobobboo61bo$92boo30bo207bo10bobo3bo61bobo$93bo28bobo207b3o7boobo
3bo61boo$122boo211bo8bobooboboo$334boo8bobb3obbo$343boobo3boo73boo$
120bo59boo155bo5bobb4o75bobo$119boo37b3o18bobobbobbo4boo142bobo6bo3bo
75bo$119bobobbo33bo20bo4b6obbo139boobboo5bobb3o$124bobo32bo17boob4o6bo
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obobb3o3bobbo$176bobo26b3o7boobo3bo96bo129b3o3bobb3o3boo$176boo30bo8bo
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oo25bobo6bo3bo92boo132bobo$97boo58boo46boobboo5bobb3o92bobo132boo$101b
oo54bobo45boo9boobo94bo5boo70bo60boo$100bobo54bo59bo95boo5boo70bobo58b
obo$101bo115bobo109boo61boo54boo5bo$218boo109bobo116boo5boo$153boo174b
o$59bo33bo59boo$59bobo24boo3b3obbo3b3o101b3o$59boo26bobbo3b3obbobobo
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obbo155bobobo3bobbooboboo145boo$57bobb7o156boob4o6bobo142boo$57b3o130b
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5boo40bo35b7obbo33bob5oboo181bo8bobooboboo$11bobo45bobo40b3o34bo4bobo
181boo8boboboobbo53bo$12boo46boo35b4o39b3obobo190boobo3boo54boo$16boo
78bobob3o39boobo185bo3bo5b3o55bobo$15bobo78bobo4bo34b3o189bobobbob3o3b
o$16bo29boo47boobb4obo33bobb7o16boo160boobboo3bo4b3o$45bobo48bobo3bobo
36bobbobbo17boo51boo106boo9boobo$47bo48bo3boobboo58bo52boo119bo$8bo86b
oobbobobo115bo118bobo$boo3b3obbo85boobbobo10bo224boo$bbobbo3b3obbooboo
78boboboboo7b3o219bo$bboboboo4b3o3b3o73boobobbobo8bo223bo$oobbobob4o4b
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oobobo79b4obbo5bo$oobbob3o4bobobo79bo3b3o4bobo$bobo6b4oboo81b3obbo5boo
bboo$bobb6o4bo28boo55boboo9boo$oo4bobbobbobo27bobo57bo118bo$12boo28bo
57bobo116bobo118bo$30boo9boobo55boo69bo48boo118bobo$30boobboo4bo3b3o
123bo169boo81bobbobbo$34bobobb3obo3bo57bo64b3o250b7obbo$35bo4bobb5o56b
o325b3o$41boobo3boo54b3o318boboo$32boo8bo3boobbo373bobob3o$33bo8boboob
oboo373bobo4bo$30b3o7boobo3bo281bo93boob5obo$30bo10bobobobo32bo248bobo
92bobo3bobo$41bobo4boo28bobo248boo61boo30boboobobboo$39boobboboobo30b
oo61boo248bobo28boo4bobo$40bobo3bobo92bobo248bo32bobobobo10bo$40bob5ob
oo93bo281bo3boboo7b3o$41bo4bobo373booboboobo8bo$42b3obobo373bobboo3bo
8boo$44boobo318b3o54boo3boboo$40b3o325bo56b5obbo4bo$40bobb7o250b3o64bo
57bo3bob3obbobo$43bobbobbo81boo169bo123b3o3bo4boobboo$130bobo118boo48b
o69boo55boboo9boo$132bo118bobo116bobo57bo28boo$251bo118bo57bobo27bobo
bbobbo4boo$358boo9boobo55boo28bo4b6obbo$358boobboo5bobb3o81boob4o6bobo
$362bobo4b3o3bo79bobobo4b3obobboo$363bo5bobb4o79boboboobbooboobobo$
369boobo3boo73boobooboobo3bo3boobo$137b3o220boo8bob4obbo72bo4bo4b4obob
obboo$137bo223bo8bobobboboo73b3o3b3o4boobobo$138bo219b3o7boobobobo78b
ooboobb3o3bobbo$132boo224bo10bobobboo85bobb3o3boo$132bobo118bo115bobob
obboo86bo$134bo119boo52bo58boobboo3bo48bo$132boboo9boo106boo51boo17bo
bbobbo36bobo3bobo48bobo$130b3o4bo3boobboo160boo16b7obbo33bob4obboo47b
oo29bo$129bo3b3obobbobo189b3o34bo4bobo78bobo$71bobo55b3o5bo3bo185boboo
39b3obobo78boo$71boo54boo3boboo190bobob3o39b4o35boo46boo$72bo53bobboob
obo8boo181bobo4bo34b3o40bobo45bobo$126booboboobo8bo181boob5obo33bobb7o
35bo40boo5bo$129boboboboo7b3o150bo28bobo3bobo36bobbobbo33boboo9boo28b
oo5boo$86boo24bo16boobbobo10bo148boo29boboobobboo73b3o4bo3boobboo19boo
$74boo4bobbobbobo24boo12boobbobobo160boo27boo4bobo74bo3b3obobbobo24boo
$75bobb6o4bo23boo14bob4obboo189bobobobo10bo63b3o5bo3bo24bo$75bobo6b4ob
oo26boo9bo5bobo190bo3boboo7b3o61boo3boboo$74booboobobobo4bobo25boo8boo
bob3obo187booboboobo8bo63bobboobobo8boo$75bobobbobbobbobbobo20boo14bob
o4bo188bobboo3bo8boo62booboboobo8bo$75bobobbo5boboobooboo17boo13bobob
3o190boo3boboo74boboboboo7b3o$74boobbobob4o4bo4bo16bo16b4o148bo45b5obb
o4bo68boobbobo10bo$76boboboo4b3obob3o39b3o143boboo43bo3bob3obbobo65boo
bbobobo$76bobbo3b3obbooboo34b7obbo134boo7bobbo44b3o3bo4boobboo62bob4o
bboo$75boo3b3obbo12bo28bobbobbo138boo7b3o46boboo9boo62bo5bobo$82bo15b
oo171bo9bo50bo73boobob3obo$97bobo180bobo47bobo74bobo4bo$245boo33bobbo
46boo75bobob3o$90bo142boo4bobbobbobo32bobbo124b4o$89bobo142bobb6o4bo
34bo130b3o$90boo142bobo6b4oboo156b7obbo$86boo145booboboobbo3bobobo155b
obbobbo$85bobo146bo4bob4o3bobo$85bo5boo141boboobobo4bobobooboo$84boo5b
oo140boobbobob4o4bo4bo$235boboboo4b3o3b3o$235bobbo3b3obbobobo$234boo3b
3obbo3b3o$241bo132boo$353boo18bobobbobbo4boo$353bobo17bo4b6obbo$249bo
103bo17boob4o6bobo$38bo209bobo119bobobo3bobbooboboo$38bobo208boo119bob
o3b4obo4bo$38boo205boo70bobbo45booboobobo4boboboobo$244bobo68bobobbobo
43bo4bo4b4obobobboo$244bo5boo15bo48boobboo45b3o3b3o4boobobo$243boo5boo
14bo102bobobobb3o3bobbo26boo$266b3o101b3o3bobb3o3boo24bobo$318boo59bo
33bo$143bo174boo$16boo5boo116bobo109boo$17bo5boo54boo61boo109bobo115bo
$17bobo58bobo70boo5boo95bo59bo54bobo$18boo60bo70boo5bo94boboo9boo45bob
o54boo$22boo132bobo92b3obbo5boobboo46boo58boo$21bobo132boo92bo3bo6bobo
25boo5boo76bobo$22bo100bo28boo96b4obbo5bo27bo5boo71boo5bo$122boo28bobo
93boo3boboo33bobo76boo5boo$122bobo28bo93bobb3obbo8boo25boo$14bo232boob
oboobo8bo30boo$7boo3b3obbo3b3o129bo96bo3boboo7b3o26bobo$8bobbo3b3obbob
obo128bo7bo88bo3bobo10bo27bo$8boboboo4b3o3b3o131bobb3o3boo79boobbobobo
$6boobbobob4o4bo4bo123bo3bobb3o3bobbo81bob4obboo$7boboobobo4bobobooboo
121b3obob3o4boobobo81bobo3bobo29bo6b3o$7bo4bob4o3bobo124bo4bo4b4obobo
bboo78boobooboobo22boo3b3obbo$6booboboobbo3bobobo124booboob3o8boobo80b
obbo3bo24bobbo3b3obbobobo$7bobo6b4oboo129bobo3boobobo4bo80bobob3o25bob
oboo4b3obob3o$7bobb6o4bo131bobobo4booboboboo80boboo25boobbobob4o4bo4bo
$6boo4bobbobbobo105boo25boob4o6bobo86b3o22boboobobo3b3obbooboo$18boo
106bobo26bo4b6obbo79b7obbo22bobo4booboobbobo$128bo26bobobbobbo4boo78bo
bbobbo24boob4obobobbobobo50boo$126boboo9boo15boo122bobo6b4oboo17bo32bo
bo$124b3obbo5boobboo139bobb6o4bo20bo33bobbobo$47bo75bo3bo6bobo142boo4b
obbobbobo18b3o37boo$45bobo75b4obbo5bo155boo59bo$46boo73boo3boboo$120bo
bb3obbo8boo$120booboboobo8bo211boo$60boo61bo3boboo7b3o207bobo28bo$59bo
bo61bo3bobo10bo207bo30boo$59bo61boobbobobo206boo9boobo27bobo$47boo9boo
bo60bob4obboo204boobboo3bo4b3o$47boobboo3bo4b3o58bobo3bobo209bobobbob
3o3bo$51bobobbob3o3bo56boobooboobo210bo3bo5b3o$52bo3bo5b3o57bobbo3bo
217boobo3boo$58boobo3boo55bobob3o209boo8boboboobbo$49boo8boboboobbo55b
oboo212bo8bobooboboo$50bo8bobooboboo60b3o205b3o7boobobobo$47b3o7boobob
obo56b7obbo205bo10bobobboo$47bo10bobobboo56bobbobbo219bobobobboo$58bob
obobboo278boobb4obo$56boobb4obo280bobo5bo$57bobo5bo280bob3oboboo$57bob
3oboboo280bo4bobo$58bo4bobo282b3obobo$59b3obobo284b4o$61b4o281b3o$57b
3o286bobb7o$57bobb7o282bobbobbo$60bobbobbo6$345bobo38bo$346boo36bobo$
346bo38boo$358boo$357bobo$357bo$345boo9boobo$345boobboo3bo4b3o$349bobo
bbob3o3bo$350bo3bo5b3o$356boobo3boo$347boo8boboboobbo$348bo8bobooboboo
$345b3o7boobobobo$345bo10bobobboo$356bobobobboo$354boobb4obo$355bobo5b
o$355bob3oboboo$356bo4bobo$357b3obobo$359b4o$355b3o$355bobb7o$358bobbo
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#C p135 glider gun based on the 4G->5G reaction,
#C   using pentadecathlons and p5 reflectors
x = 443, y = 388, rule = B3/S23
25bo$25bo$$25bo$24bobo$$24b3o3$24b3o$$24bobo$25bo$$8boo15bo$8bo16bo$
11b4o14boo3bobbo3boo$10b3obo14b5o4b5o$10b3o16boo3bobbo3boo$17boo$3bo
13boo$obobo7boo$oobbo7boo$4boo3bo6boo$4obbo3boo3bobo$o3bo4b3o4bo$bbo3b
oobo$b3obooboo$o5bobo$b4obobobo$3bobo3boobboobbobo$11b3oboobobo$9boo5b
o3b3o16boo$8bobobboobb3o3bo7bo6boo$9bo3bo3bo3bobbo4bobo8bo$14bobb7o6b
oo$11b3obbo$10bobboboo3boo$11bobobbobobbo$12bob3oboo$14bobo$14bobo$13b
ooboboo$16bobbo$16boo19$208bo$207bobo$206bo3bo$72b3o131bo3bo$63bobo6bo
133bo3bo$64boo7bo132bo3bo$64bo141bo3bo$206bo3bo$207bobo$208bo4$195bo4b
o$193boob4oboo$195bo4bo$$205boo$206boo$205bo3$233bo$232b3o$175boo$175b
obbo$172booboboo53b3o$173bobo$173bobo56bobo$171bob3oboo53bobo$170bobo
bbobobbo$169bobboboo3boo25bobbooboo18b3o$170b3obbo29bobobbobo$173bobb
7o22boboobobbo$168bo3bo3bo3bobbo20boobobbo3bo17b3o$167bobobboobb3o3bo
22bobbobb3o19bo$107bo60boo5bo3b3o22bobbobobo$98bo7boo62b3oboobobo25boo
boo$99bo6bobo53bobo3boobboobbobo29boo21bo4bobboo4boobbo$97b3o60b4obobo
bo31bo3boobbo9boo9bo4bo3b3obb3o3bo$159bo5bobo32bobobobbobo9boo9b3o3bo
bboo4boobbo$160b3obooboo28bo3booboo5bo4bobo$161bo3boobo27bobo4bo5b3o3b
o$159bo3bo4b3o4bo19bobbo4bo7b3obbobbo$159b4obbo3boo3bobo15bo3b3obooboo
7boobbobbo$163boo3bo6boo15b4o3bobobbo12boo$159boobbo7boo24bo5boo5bo$
159bobobo7boo17b6ob8o4bobo$162bo13boo12bo8bobobbo5boobboo$176boo14bobb
oobooboboo9boo$169b3o14bo4boobbo3bobobbo$169b3obo11boo10bobobboo$170b
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These should be fairly easy to improve on with modern technology. The big improvement will be cutting things down to just one copy of the reaction -- unless that's already been done, too, and I've just forgotten. (?).

One way to approach the problem might be to try connecting outputs to inputs using a chain of Snarks. When the color turns out to be wrong and the connection can't be made, substitute a suitable reflector for the Snark.

"Suitable" is an interesting question. The p8 reflectors and p8 bumpers in chris_c's sample pattern are good for allowing other streams of gliders to pass nearby, but they'll restrict your gun to have a period that's a multiple of eight, which is the worst possible thing for adjustability.

If you pick an odd period, then if it turns out to be awkward to get a particular glider in a reflected stream to the right spacetime location -- i.e., turns out to need a really long loop, as happens sometimes in the above guns by Jason Summers -- then the previous glider or the next glider will probably be easier to adjust, using 1-cell diagonal moves of reflector pairs to change the timing by +/-8N.

If a signal branch still seems to require a huge loop, it will often help to substitute a period-N bumper reflector for a Snark, to change the output glider's timing by three ticks. One way or another you should be able to close the cycle and end up with a gun.

I suppose another way of looking at this challenge would be to require that the actual gliders in a specific 4G->5G reaction have to be reflected until they crash together again in the next 4G->5G reaction. The gun's period would have to be much lower to allow this. You wouldn't be able to "cheat" by using the next or previous glider in a stream, so you'd probably have to use a lot more reflectors.

Still, it shouldn't take more than seven bumpers to get to the right mod-8 timing, so that a simple trombone slide adjustment (Life Lexicon link) will let you make a connection. If any other terms I'm using are unfamiliar, they should be in the new Lexicon, too -- let me know if they aren't!

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Re: Making a gun with the 4 gliders to 5 gliders reaction

Post by googleplex » January 25th, 2018, 4:54 pm

dvgrn wrote:"Suitable" is an interesting question. The p8 reflectors and p8 bumpers in chris_c's sample pattern are good for allowing other streams of gliders to pass nearby, but they'll restrict your gun to have a period that's a multiple of eight, which is the worst possible thing for adjustability.
Well, if we're using trombone slides made from snarks, for which increasing the distance will only increase delay the gliders by multiples of eight, I don't think it will hurt too much to use the period eight reflectors and bumpers.
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Re: Making a gun with the 4 gliders to 5 gliders reaction

Post by googleplex » January 25th, 2018, 5:05 pm

Another thing we could do is make a four barreled gun and use a glider to Herschel converter, have a Herschel track output four gliders, and use snarks to get those gliders to the correct spot.
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Re: Making a gun with the 4 gliders to 5 gliders reaction

Post by dvgrn » January 25th, 2018, 6:26 pm

googleplex wrote:Well, if we're using trombone slides made from snarks, for which increasing the distance will only increase delay the gliders by multiples of eight, I don't think it will hurt too much to use the period eight reflectors and bumpers.
It's the "worst possible thing" because with p8 reflectors or bumpers, your gun period will necessarily be a multiple of eight.

With a p8N period, you won't be able to use that trombone-slide adjustability to deliver a previous or later glider to your target spacetime location, and have that make a difference to the timing. If the timing happens to be right, this is great -- you can trivially adjust loop sizes down to a minimum with no ill effects.

But the timing only happens to be right 1/8th of the time, even once you get the color right. Often the shortest signal loop will use a different glider from the one you expect.

If you require that each of four output signals becomes an input signal for the very next 4G->5G reaction, then it doesn't matter -- you'll have to do all the adjusting with tricks like adding a chain of up to seven Snarks and substituting bumpers (of whatever period) until the mod-8 timing works out.

But if that's not a requirement, then if you pick a 8N+0 gun period, on average it will be about twice as difficult to make connections as if you pick an 8N+4 gun period. And 8N+4 is twice as difficult as an 8N+2 or 8N+6 gun period, which is twice as difficult as any odd period.

(Okay, it's not really twice as difficult at each stage -- maybe 1.5 or something. But you get the idea.)

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Re: Making a gun with the 4 gliders to 5 gliders reaction

Post by googleplex » January 25th, 2018, 9:55 pm

One piece done for a four barreled gun using this conduit:

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It uses herschel tracks to make four gliders from one.
Now all we need to make a gun is hook up the lower SE glider to the input of this and use snarks to move the four gliders to the inputs for the reaction!
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Re: Making a gun with the 4 gliders to 5 gliders reaction

Post by PHPBB12345 » January 25th, 2018, 10:44 pm

googleplex wrote:One piece done for a four barreled gun using this conduit:

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It uses herschel tracks to make four gliders from one.
Now all we need to make a gun is hook up the lower SE glider to the input of this and use snarks to move the four gliders to the inputs for the reaction!

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Re: Making a gun with the 4 gliders to 5 gliders reaction

Post by googleplex » January 25th, 2018, 10:54 pm

PHPBB12345 wrote:
googleplex wrote:One piece done for a four barreled gun using this conduit:

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It uses herschel tracks to make four gliders from one.
Now, all we need to make a gun is hook up the lower SE glider to the input of this and use snarks to move the four gliders to the inputs for the reaction!

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I think you misunderstood. I'm trying to make a four-barreled gun using the reaction in the OP. I want to take one of the outputs from the reaction and hook it up to the input of the Herschel conduit.
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Re: Making a gun with the 4 gliders to 5 gliders reaction

Post by PHPBB12345 » January 25th, 2018, 11:12 pm

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Re: Making a gun with the 4 gliders to 5 gliders reaction

Post by googleplex » January 25th, 2018, 11:34 pm

No, don't you see?

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Re: Making a gun with the 4 gliders to 5 gliders reaction

Post by dvgrn » January 26th, 2018, 1:16 am

googleplex wrote:If a picture is worth 1000 words, then this is worth one lonely Q.
If that's the goal, here's a universal glider adjustment toolkit that will make the job fairly straightforward.

Your first job is to connect each output of your four-glider fanout device to four of the structures in the toolkit -- either the "s0" one or the "d0" one, depending on what color you need that output glider to be. Then you just use Snarks to bounce the four output glider around until each one is coming in on one of the 4G->5G's input lanes.

Then you figure out how much too early or too late each glider is coming in -- probably you pick the slowest glider and say that it's arriving on time, and the others are too fast by 8N+{k}. So then you replace your "s0" or "d0" toolkit object with the equivalent "s{k}" or "d{k}" equivalent, as appropriate.

That fixes the {k} part. So then you adjust the trombone slide by N ticks to fix the 8N part for each signal path, and you'll be all done.
googleplex wrote:Now all we need to make a gun is hook up the lower SE glider to the input of this and use snarks to move the four gliders to the inputs for the reaction!
There's one other problem that you'll have to decide what to do about. That fanout device can't be hooked up to one of the SE gliders, unless the other SE glider is blocked or diverted somehow. If it's okay that one glider doesn't escape, then you're fine -- you can always unblock your Herschel conduit at the east end and get as many more gliders out as you want, after all. (?).

There are ways to rescue that second SE output, using periodic reflectors as chris_c showed, or in more complicated ways using stable stuff to let the original glider escape unharmed. Which would you like to try?

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Re: Making a gun with the 4 gliders to 5 gliders reaction

Post by Majestas32 » January 26th, 2018, 1:17 am

Why are there 8, and not 4, timings of the glider?
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Re: Making a gun with the 4 gliders to 5 gliders reaction

Post by dvgrn » January 26th, 2018, 1:25 am

Majestas32 wrote:Why are there 8, and not 4, timings of the glider?
Because you'll find if you try a minimum-length adjustment of the 180-degree "trombone slides", that moving just one cell diagonally changes the timing of the glider by 8 ticks, not just 4 ticks -- you lose four ticks in each direction. So you need eight different options to account for all the possible 8N+k timings.

That toolkit I linked to is not actually quite the latest technology, by the way. The newest toolkits are probably a little more space-efficient, though they haven't been tested much yet so the jury is still out -- and they're maybe a bit harder for a beginner to understand or use, with all the semi-Snark trickery going on.

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Re: Making a gun with the 4 gliders to 5 gliders reaction

Post by googleplex » January 26th, 2018, 8:32 am

If someone could figure out what color the four input gliders are, it would be appreciated. Thanks!

I was thinking that if make a new one glider to four glider Herschel track, with the outputs the same color as the inputs to the reaction, and just use color preserving reflectors.
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Re: Making a gun with the 4 gliders to 5 gliders reaction

Post by dvgrn » January 26th, 2018, 9:07 am

googleplex wrote:If someone could figure out what color the four input gliders are, it would be appreciated. Thanks!
That's something you can figure out yourself, using 'Colour of a glider' in the Life Lexicon.
googleplex wrote:I was thinking that if make a new one glider to four glider Herschel track, with the outputs the same color as the inputs to the reaction, and just use color preserving reflectors.
There's one more problem: if you don't use at least one periodic reflector, you're going to need an edge shooter, or at least a syringe plus Herschel-to-glider with some transparent lanes, for one of the two closely-spaced gliders coming in from the SW in the following pattern.

Below I've drawn input and output gliders in two different states to match their colors. Inputs and outputs don't match too well at the moment. But there's no point in fixing the colors until you've decided how you want to solve the two gliders on nearby lanes in the SW. Your mechanism for fixing that might well change the color of that glider anyway.

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x = 200, y = 95, rule = LifeHistory
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Re: Making a gun with the 4 gliders to 5 gliders reaction

Post by googleplex » January 26th, 2018, 11:55 am

remember, I'm still working on one using nothing but reflectors.
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Re: Making a gun with the 4 gliders to 5 gliders reaction

Post by AbhpzTa » January 26th, 2018, 4:01 pm

googleplex wrote:remember, I'm still working on one using nothing but reflectors.
p584 glider gun based on the 4G-to-5G reaction, using p8 bumpers and p8 boat-based reflectors (and welding):

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x = 119, y = 138, rule = B3/S23
73bo$73b2o$72b2obo$71bo2b3o$61bo8bobobo12bo$61b3o5bobobo12b3o$64bo2b3o
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o9b2o4b3o$61b2o2b2o17bo$18bo42b2o17bo$79bobo$16bob3o54b2o2b2o$18b2obo
8bo44b2o$18bob2o6b3o12b2o$19b3obo3bo15b2obo$27b2o18bo$21bo22bo$25bo13b
2o4bob2o$24bobo12b3o5b2o$25b2o2b2o2b2o2bo2bobo$29b2o2b2o2b2o2b2o8bo$
37b2o11bobo21b2o$11b2o5b2o31b2o11b2o7bo2bo4b2o$12bo5b2o27b2o16bo7bobo
5b2o$12bobo31bobo15bo9bo$13b2o18bo12bo5b2o10b2o$17b2o13bobo10b2o5b2o
12bo2b2o9b2obo$16bobo13bo2bo30bo3bo10bobo$17bo15b2o32b3o12bo$12b3o54bo
bo9b2o$15bo54b2o9b2o$11bo3bo21b2o14b2o26b2o$10bobo2bo21bobo12bo2bo$8bo
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o3bo40bo5b2o53b2o$3bob3o40bo4b2o2bo3bo45bo2bo$4b3o19b3o17bo10bo4bo16bo
27bobo$5bo19bo20b2o11bobobo14bobo27bo$9bo15bo3bo30bobobo13bo2bo$8bobo
14bo2bobo30bo4bo12b2o$9b2o16bobo2bo29bo3bo$5b2o21bo3bo79bo$4bobo25bo
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22bo25b2o5b2o16bo26b2o$33bobo24bo2b2o20b2o$27b2o5b2o25b2obo$27bo2b2o
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40b2o73b2o$115bo$113bobo$113b2o3$109b2o$19b2o87bo2bo$20bo87bobo$20bobo
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Re: Making a gun with the 4 gliders to 5 gliders reaction

Post by googleplex » January 26th, 2018, 4:29 pm

AbhpzTa wrote:
googleplex wrote:remember, I'm still working on one using nothing but reflectors.
p584 glider gun based on the 4G-to-5G reaction, using p8 bumpers and p8 boat-based reflectors (and welding):

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Re: Making a gun with the 4 gliders to 5 gliders reaction

Post by googleplex » January 26th, 2018, 4:41 pm

In the reaction, Three gliders are white, the other is black:

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x = 51, y = 39, rule = LifeHistory
46.B.B.B$46.B.B.B$46.B.B.B$47.B.B2$47.A.A$47.2A$48.A20$B.B.B$B.B.B$B.
B.B17.A$.B.B10.B.B.B.A.A2.A$6.A7.B.B.B2.2A2.A.A$6.2A6.B.B.B6.2A$5.A.A
7.B.B$29.2B$29.B.B$29.2B$29.B.B$29.2B!
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