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3. From stage 2 we also need to leave two SLs and collide them into *WSS to ignite the fuse and kill the puffer using one of these recipes: Did you perform this search with gencols? I think there might be some results missing, those where the bait spaceship has common neighbor cell(s) with the puff...

simsim314 wrote:I think we can safely start from this (any simpler suggestion for cleaning rake?):

Huh? Why do we need this? Isn't the fuse supposed to be burnt?

We need some trigger - like SL that converts to glider, that ignites the fuse that converts back to SL but after some distance. But a still-life will not just simply convert to a glider, you need to wreck a couple of spaceships into it. So why not just ignite the end of a fuse with a couple of spac...

Okay, thanks, I think I got the idea. Maybe I'm missing something, but is there really a need to ignite the fuse with gliders? Why not use forward *WSS to do it directly? EDIT: It's also not quite clear to me, if still-life phase is needed. Can't we adjust the speed just by delaying the moment when ...

Why synthesise blinker puffers by colliding spaceships from the helix with still-lifes? Why not just make blinker puffers part of the helix itself? (Like ping-pong.)

EDIT: I'm not sure I understood the concept. Why is it better than just making helix out of *WSS?

Infinitesimal.

Well, I think we should stop being engineers at this point and become mathematicians. If there are any principal limitations for the caterloopillar design besides speed limit of c/4, they should be mentioned. Otherwise I would just assume, we've got a good enough theory how to build a spaceship of a...

This is a pretty old idea. Gabriel Nivasch even wrote an exhaustive search program for this particular purpose 16 years ago, but there's been no luck so far.

Well, it not quite eats it: the output glider is misplaced and rephased.

Well done! Congratulations!

Well, I would argue, that centipede's frontend is not a helix. I used to propose a helical frontend for a 31c/240 spaceship, but it required much more spaceships than there are in the final design.

I'm wondering how we should present these results on the status page . Obviously, this gives versatile puffers for (1,0)c/6 and (1,0)c/7, but should we add any new speeds to the list? If so, how many? I think time has come to differentiate between elementary and macro-spaceships and puffers on the ...

Rich Holmes wrote:What's a helix?

Essentially it is a wick, that burns at a certain speed. Some move faster than they burn, thus you can use them as frontends for macro-spaceships. I recommend an article on Caterpillar by Gabriel Nivasch.

muzik wrote:Since it has a 2 glider synthesis, it should be fairly simple. Block also has a 2-glider synthesis which could work out well.

If it's simple, why don't you try and show us a functional track?

muzik wrote:Of course, we need to find a functional helix...

Believe me, a helix is not a problem.

Catagolue is over quota. Was it slashdotted or abused?

Congratulations! Does your method work with oblique and diagonal speeds? If yes, which ones?

The point is that you can build a pattern, that eventually stabilizes after arbitrarily large number of generations, and you can mathematically prove it. So basically that's an argument about the largest integer one can think of.

mniemiec wrote:[...] discoveries almost always are credited to their discoverer's last names (e.g. Einstein's Theory of Relativity, The Pythagorean Theorem, [...]

Well, this is rather a counterexample

It seems that apgmera cannot identify high-period double switch engine puffer properly. All (most?) period 2304 puffers are identical:

• yl2304_1_1908_7238b5ececda84d5a942e5d573d92be8
• yl2304_1_1908_3b2c1715cf7e3df495b0cd1310ef7428
• yl2304_1_1908_340fe89977188c0121fda335587e73d3
• ...

It is block-laying switch engine. And please read the forum rules carefully.

Here it is in its standard form. x = 25, y = 25, rule = B3/S23 6bo11bo$5bobo9bobo$3bo3b2o7b2o3bo$2bob2o13b2obo$3bo17bo$bobo7bobo7bobo $o10bobo10bo$b2o8bobo8b2o$2bo6bobobobo6bo$8bobo3bobo$9bo5bo$5b4o7b4o2$ 5b4o7b4o$9bo5bo$8bobo3bobo$2bo6bobobobo6bo$b2o8bobo8b2o$o10bobo10bo$bo bo7bobo7bobo$3bo17bo$2bo...

Another p96 double switch engine orbit. Is it new? No announcement from the twitterbot (yet?)

P. S. p15. Wow.

Well, the problem with the loafer is that it's gonna be arguably 100% natural, even if it comes out of a symmetric soup, because it's asymmetric itself. But that also means that effectively there are more cells to occur serendipitously.

A new non-trivial double switch engine orbit of period 96 and it's very clean.

Unfortunately I found no other climbers with that velocity. I checked B-heptomino, pi, wing, R-pentomino and honey farm climbers. I could have missed something, of course.