M. I. Wright wrote:Are there any other edgy beehive factories?
There must be many thousands of good converters out there waiting to be catalogued. Another one
showed up in the new-conduits thread back in June:
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x = 143, y = 75, rule = LifeHistory
113.A$111.3A$110.A$110.2A$101.2A$101.A.A37.A$102.A37.A.A$140.A.A$141.
A$109.D3.2A15.D$109.2D2.2A15.D.D$27.D69.2D11.2D18.3D$26.DBD69.2D10.D
21.D$25.BDBDB68.D10.D$25.2BD2B$24.6B$23.8B$22.9B92.2C$16.13B95.C$15.
16B90.3C$15.17B89.C$15.17B$17.16B$14.B.17B$13.2AB.17B49.2A$13.2A20B
48.2A$14.B.14B3.B2A68.2A$16.13B4.A2.A66.A2.A$16.12B6.2A.A66.2A.A$16.
13B8.A69.A$16.12B9.2A68.2A$16.10B$16.10B$15.10B107.2A$15.10B107.A$7.
2A6.10B52.2A55.A$8.A7.9B53.A35.2A14.5A$8.A.AB4.9B.2B50.A.A34.A13.A$9.
2AB.14B2A50.2A16.2A16.A.A12.3A$11.16B2A68.2A17.2A15.A$11.14B.2B102.4A
$12.13B100.2A3.A3.2A$11.14B.2B97.2A4.3A2.A$9.18B2A68.2A34.A.2A$7.18B.
B2A68.2A34.A$7.2BC15B2.B51.C52.2A$6.3BCBC4B.8B54.C.C$7.2B3C4B2.7B54.
3C$6.5BC4B2.7B56.C42.2A$5.10B3.7B99.A$4.4B11.6B.BA69.A27.3A$4.3B12.7B
A.A67.A.A28.A$2.4B13.8BA69.A4.A$2.2C16.5B.B45.2C26.3A$3.C14.6B49.C25.
A$3C15.6B46.3C26.2A$C17.4B48.C16.2A$18.2B2AB63.A.A$20.2A64.A$85.2A3$
89.2A$88.A.A5.2A$88.A7.2A$87.2A2$101.A$97.2A.A.A$96.A.A.A.A$93.A2.A.A
.A.A.2A$93.4A.2A2.A2.A$97.A4.2A$95.A.A$95.2A!
Restarting the active reaction with a beehive+glider collision seems like a neat trick.
There are a few period-multiplying conduits that have a beehive as one of the stages. If it happened to work out, for example, you could send a couple of signals into
simeks' new period quadrupler, and then do something with the beehive.
Here are the other H-to-beehive converters I have in my old collection:
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81.2A6.A15.B40.2A.2A$73.A6.B2AB5.3A11.4B4.B34.2A.2A$73.3A5.3B8.A9.5B
3.B2D$22.2B52.A3.B.B8.2A9.6B2.D2BD32.5A2.A$20.3B2D50.2A2.6B6.7B4.9B2D
B31.A4.A2.3A9.2A$19.3BD2BD49.10B6.8B2.13B30.A.BAB7.A6.2B2AB$7.2A10.4B
2DB41.2A8.11B2.25B26.A2.A.2AB6.2A6.4B$8.A9.8B42.A8.22B.15B25.A.A.A.4B
A4.5B2.4B$8.A.AB5.10B41.A.AB6.20B2.14B27.A2.A3.BABA5.10B$9.2AB.3B.11B
41.2AB.3B2.33B33.2A2.A2BA3.12B$11.17B43.40B38.2A2B.12B$11.16B44.38B
42.16B$12.13B47.37B42.17B$11.14B.2B43.36B.B2A40.17B$9.18B2A40.21B.7B
2.6B2.BA.A37.18B$6.19B.B2A38.19B5.6B14.A34.22B$4.5BA15B2.B39.2BA15B7.
6B13.2A32.4BA17B$4.5BABA4B.7B42.3BABA4B.7B8.5B48.4BABA15B$4.5B3A4B.7B
43.2B3A4B2.6B9.2B50.4B3A14B$4.7BA4B2.7B41.5BA4B3.6B7.2A51.6BA14B$4.
11B4.6B40.10B6.4B7.A52.22B$4.4B10.7B39.4B12.B2A2B8.3A48.4B.17B$4.3B
12.4B40.4B14.2A.B2A8.A48.3B2.17B$2.4B14.5B37.4B18.BA.A54.4B.17B$2.2C
19.2A36.B2CB22.A54.2C3.17B$3.C19.A36.3BC23.2A54.C3.13B2DB$3C21.3A32.B
3C77.3C4.12BD2BD$C25.A33.C79.C7.12B2D$148.5B2A7B$150.3B2A7B$151.10B$
151.6B.2B$150.7B$150.6B7.A$151.6B4.3A$151.8B.A$150.9BA.A$150.7B.2BAB$
150.6B3.2B$149.2B3D2B2.2B$149.4BD2B.B2AB$144.3B.4B3DB2.2A$143.13B$
142.14B$141.15B$141.14B$142.13B$142.14B$143.12B$145.3B2A3B$146.BA2BA
2B$148.2AB!
The third one on the right doesn't use up the Herschel -- the beehive is generated in passing. It was used at one point in a G->LWSS converter, and then Guam figured out how to turn it into a clean conduit, if I recall correctly. The other two are terminal converters that have pretty good clearance and "edginess".
I have another H-to-beehive saved, that drops the beehive right in the middle of the conduit on top of the input Herschel. Unless there's some reason why it's useful in a specific case, I suspect that anything as non-edgy as this will not be worth posting on this thread -- there are way too many millions of similar converters.
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#C sample not-really-worth-posting Herschel-to-beehive converter
x = 41, y = 27, rule = LifeHistory
30.A$30.3A$33.A$2A30.2A4.2B$A.A25.B3.6B.B$2.A22.3B.B4.B5.B$2.2A20.B5.
B.2B6.B$3.B20.B6.B8.B$3.3B18.B15.B$2.B3.2B15.B16.B$.B6.3B11.B16.B$B
10.B3.2B2.3B16.B$.A3.2A5.3B2.2B3.A15.B$.2A2.2A15.A2D14.2B$2.2A18.C2AD
14.B$.2A20.DC15.B$3B13.B4.B18.B$3.B6.B.4B.B2.B.3B15.B$3.7B.B4.B2.B5.B
14.B$15.B2.B7.B12.B$15.2AB9.B11.B$16.A10.B11.B$13.3A11.B11.B$13.A14.B
10.B$29.B7.2B$30.B5.B$31.5B!