In B36/S245 two instances of a shuttle based replicator have appeared in 8x32 asymmetrical soups - however they are both variants of the well known replicator with an offset between the two shuttles of (15,2) in place of (13,0):
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x = 32, y = 16, rule = B36/S245
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ooobobbobbbooobbobooobbobbbboboo$
bbbboobbooobobboooobobbobbbooooo$
bbboobobbbbbboboboobbbooooobobbo$
oobbbbobbobboobobbbboboobobobbbo$
bbbooboobbbobbooobobbbooobbobbob$
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bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb$
bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb!
#C [[ STEP 4 ZOOM 2 ]]
and (14,-1) with phase difference of 4:
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x = 32, y = 16, rule = B36/S245
bobobobboobobobooobbbobbobbobbob$
bobboboboobooobbooobooooobbobboo$
obbbboboobbbobooobbobboobbobbbbo$
obbbboobobobbboooobobooboooooobo$
ooobooooobbobbooboobbbbboboooobb$
bobbobbooobobboboobooobbbooooobb$
bbbbboobobbboobbobobobobooooobbo$
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bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb$
bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb$
bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb$
bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb$
bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb$
bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb$
bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb$
bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb!
#C [[ STEP 4 ZOOM 2 ]]
These two instances have both shown up after less than 26 million soups, whereas just over 130 million 16x16 soups have been submitted to Catagolue. This is perhaps not that suprising as soups die out relatively quickly in this rule and the side length of 32 gives greater opportunity for side by side shuttles to form.
For some reason I haven't determined yet, Catogolue reports
4 instances of the replicator from these two soups.
The
5S project (Smallest Spaceships Supporting Specific Speeds) is now maintained by AforAmpere. The latest collection is hosted on
GitHub and contains well over 1,000,000 spaceships.
Semi-active here - recovering from a severe case of
LWTDS.