Well now, it's:Regarding to your last 'conduit', dvgrn wrote:• Glider goes in, glider comes out (could be promising so far...)
• One still life gets rotated and moved a little distance (oops, very bad)
• One still life disappears and is not replaced (oops again, very very bad)
Those last two problems would have to be solved first (...) Even though the above pattern also has
• Clean B-heptomino/Herschel signal comes out (big bonus!)
• Something goes in and...(Hmm...)
• Clean B-heptomino/Herschel signal comes out (big bonus!)
• No still life gets destroyed (Great!)
So great to see that you are distinguishing catalysis from non-catalysis. Keep on with that.
However, there's another thing worth noting. The "purpose" of conduits is to link to other conduits to assemble a loop / track / etc to send a pattern in a particular space at a particular time. Therefore,
1) The inputs and outputs should be common objects in order to connect to another known conduit. (R, B, G, H, Pi, BG, QB, Dove/Rmango etc.)
2) The input and output should have space to link to other conduits.
In your something-to-B,
1) I don't think that 'something' is a common object in random ash.
2) If we ASSUME that something is common (Again, it's not a common object. Just assuming.), let's see if the conduit is a useful one. We have to see which direction 'something' comes from. If that thing usually comes from the ...
- Left, then it would be a good conduit, as we could (probably) place a preceding X-to-something on the left.
- Top, then the input object would be blocked by an eater2, so no.
- Bottom, then the output herschel would collide with the input conduit.
- Right, then it's a bit tricky. The space itself is open, but there is a block to clean up. (Which, by the way, can be cleaned up with this:
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x = 21, y = 24, rule = LifeHistory
4.A$3.A.A$3.A.A$.3A.2A$A$.3A.2A$3.A.2A$12.B$19.2A$10.2B3.2A2.A$8.B6.A
.A.A$7.4B7.A$6.5B$5.6B5.A$5.7B3.A.A$5.7B4.A$5.2B3E2B5.3A$4.BE.BE2B8.A
$4.5E2B$4.2EBE3B$5.6B$6.DB2D$6.3D$7.D!
Anyway you have to clean up the block, so there is not likely to be space in the right.
Well this was a(nother) rough guideline to see if a conduit is useful or not. Hope it helps. Good luck.