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My guess is that reducing the size of some of the shoulder components and moving them about a bit (and possibly even changing the orientation of their input gates), together with a messier layout of the various routing reflectors which reduces their number, could cut the population of the active pa...

Have you developed other types of patterns along the way or was it a one-shot effort after accumulating enough knowledge to create Gemini? Yes - I had an earlier design that put the two construction arms on the other side of the pattern. When I started testing it out I found the elbow on one of the...

The "shoulder" of the construction arm, which fires the four kinds of construction salvo, was deliberately built using "Spartan" Herschel technology, ie using Herschel components constructed solely from blocks, beehives, tubs, boats and eaters. This was in the expectation of minimizing the complexi...

I am just wondering how long it took to finally complete the spaceship...? I started construction in mid-December. The part that probably took me the longest was developing the instructions for generating the tape; that was many nights of copying coordinates from the Golly status bar. It was possib...

I've created a universal constructor based spaceship. The speed is (5120,1024)c/33699586, and it runs well in Golly's hashlife. It is larger in extent, but smaller in population than the caterpillar, and the bulk of the pattern is taken up by the instruction tape. The files are too large to attach, ...