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A worthy and well documented mechanism is Paul Rendell's Turing Machine. The documentation is broken down module by module and has yielded numerous components which resulted in great avail to my mechanisms. Why reinvent the wheel unless some overriding factor exists (i.e. space limitation, traffic l...

Help!
Most (all?) of the existing (known) LW->G p30 devices are 45 degree.
Of course, 2 p30 guns will give me 135 degree, as will a 45 + 90 degree compound.
I've got narrow paths of adjacent LWSS's to pick off and redirect.
Any pointer will be appreciated.
triller

 by dvgrn » Today, 4:06 am
Ha, now that is elegant!

Agreed! I tried about every p30 device (even a pentadecathlon) I could think of. Over-thinking, I guess. It's almost as if there is an auto-optimize button! Thanks Kazyan. When implemented in practice, your provenance is assured.
Triller

Long time since I've posted. I will have a need in a large project to race a signal pulse ahead of the output of a mechanism working in the opposite direction. I thought I'd give a high speed wire a shot. Periodic being my bent, I worked over the version of Dean Hickerson's 2c/3 diagonal wire from o...

Sleep for a month and look what happens!
I should nap more often.
Congrats on an core challenge bested.

triller

I'm a flautist.

Credit where credit is due (I'm HUGE on provenance).
While my handle is evoked, the originator of the collatz generator is PM 2RING. See here.
viewtopic.php?f=2&t=81&p=2103&hilit=collatz#p2103.

triller

How about a fibonacci generator with display like the Collatz one? I tried to assemble the decoder and the fibonacci generator, but it didn't work. One thing I see that I failed to mention about the BCD converter is that it does not accept a zero argument agreeably. The nibbler that determines inpu...

A modicum of Spartan glue can't hurt though, as long as the bounding box isn't prohibitive. Not to be pedantic... I've been accused of being pedantic. I took a brief tangential journey into the Nomic world. Upon my judgement of the rules as written, apparently a participant took offense at my inter...

Watch out, though, @triller -- this kind of thing mixes very easily with p30 circuitry, but it's a slippery slope. Once you notice how nice it is not to have to deal with p30 rephasing issues, it might be hard to go back. Not to worry. My toolbox runneth over w/ p30 fasteners. A modicum of Spartan ...

Thanks for all of the excellent suggestions.
triller

dvgrn wrote:

triller wrote:I'd love to see a Spartan equivalent. Target p7680.

... can it just be a pulsar factory made out of stable circuitry, and activated by a single input glider?

Yes, that. Intent is an idiot light, on/true/yes by a glider. I'll handle reset.
7680 is shortest of any p30 signal.
triller

Glider to Pulsar Contraption Here tis. x = 212, y = 125, rule = B3/S23 93b2o$93bo$81b2o8bobo$81bobo7b2o$72b2o2b2o6bo$72b2obo2bo2bo2b o$76b2o6bo$81bobo$81b2o2$116b2o$116bo$107b2o5bobo$107b2o5b2o$ 90b2o5b2o5b2o$88bo3bo6bo3b3o$87bo5bo3b2o5b2o12bo$86bo2bo3bo13b 2o7b3o$93bo13b2o6bo$84bo3bo3bo22b2o$83bob...

How about a fibonacci generator with display like the Collatz one? I tried to assemble the decoder and the fibonacci generator, but it didn't work. The Collatz machine was a demonstration of the binary to decimal converter. At p60, the converter uses input from PMTuring's Collatz Generator, which i...

How to make the pulsar display device display something else? It seems I've been remiss in chiming in. Other projects abound. As dvgrn stated, the bit map ROM cells are 64 (possible) glider memory cells for any 8x8 bit map of your choosing. I opted for a simple font of the hexadecimal character set...

Forgot my user name. I remember my password. Is there a list of users (that I might recognize mine)?
triller

Might as well mention that Life itself is capable of simulating Life. (see OTCA metapixel ) Being of periodic bent, I'm surprised this slipped under my radar. Maybe it was p46 vice my p30. There are some nice things in this construction. The 'honey bit' memory is intriguing in an inverse logic kind...

Here's to continued success in all your endeavors.
triller

PHPBB12345 wrote:P30 XOR gate from "hppatterns.zip":

This reaction is one of the major facets of the Address Comparator in Paul Rendell's Universal Turing Machine.

triller

By the way, I see that many of the RLE files in 5gliders.rar have bad headers, like "x = -78, y = -60, rule = S S23/B3" in p2o8g5-bipole.lif. Golly ignores the negative x and y values, but interprets the rule as one in which every cell dies, so I've edited my copies to correct that. I've seen this ...

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While the bulk of accomplishments this year are interesting to me as curiosities, the Simkin Gun has direct impact in my particular bent, that of p30 circuitry. Its side shooting action makes it a great fit in some optimizations.

triller

Given the absence of a Pattern of the Year for 2014, is it unreasonable to include patterns since the last such honors?
Biggiemac's waterbear misses the 2015 cutoff by a mere 3 days and 22 hours. Seems a shame.
triller

chris_c wrote:I made a 0hd-Demonoid gun of period 660 * 4 * 3^6 that shoots 0hd-Demonoids of period 660 * 3^6 (approx 480,000).

As stated elseware: Diamondoid gun?
At ~ 9M gens it is clear that this is an anchored greyship generator. Hartmut should be pleased.
Nice.
triller

chris_c wrote:I found a block + beehive constellation that does the trick. I posted it as part of a pattern in the Demonoid thread a little while ago

Thanks. I missed it there.
I'm watching your latest Demonoid now. (Actually the Demonoid gun. Dare I, Diamondoid?)
triller

If you have more specific requirements for recovery time, available space, or reconstruction options, just post them and I can probably dig up something to match. I was considering injecting a Herschel into the six blocks of a B60P120 gun to start it. I looked at the two glider b-hep collisions to ...