confocaloid wrote: ↑April 15th, 2024, 3:45 pm
dvgrn wrote: ↑April 15th, 2024, 3:31 pm
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Possibly we could get away with a LifeWiki article for it under just "Transparent Turner" to go with "Scorbie Splitter"?
Which would have the exact same problem as using
spiral growth or
glider loop or
p45 pi-heptomino hassler for an article about a specific pattern (as opposed to a general concept).
Yeah, it's not perfect -- it would have to be a full name something like "Extrementhusiast's Transparent Turner", with "Transparent Turner" as the alliterative memorable everyday-use form (which could redirect to "Extrementhusiast's Transparent Turner").
However, I don't really have naming rights on the thing, myself. I'd just like it to have an easy-to-remember name that I can look up, because it's so useful to have a simple neo-Spartan merge circuit for each category (color-changing and color-preserving.)
I'm not too hopeful that enough people are going to start calling it "Extrementhusiast's Transparent Turner" to merit a LifeWiki article by that name, any time soon (or any other equally good short memorable label would be fine, I'm not picky). At least until a big project gets started that will need a lot of those things, it's probably not going to come up for discussion a whole lot.
An example of a project that will be able to make good use a toolkit that includes the Scorbie Splitter and Extrementhusiast's Transparent Turner -- and maybe a few more transparent-output merge circuits with different parities or mod-8 timings, if small enough ones were available -- would be a more compact modern rebuild of the "SQ" / "B2D" 2D memory array from calcyman's Osqrtlogt pattern.
EDIT: Come to think of it, though, it's not
exactly the same problem as "spiral growth" or those other cases. "Scorbie Splitter" is a rare type of name with two initial capital letters; "Transparent Turner" would be another one -- a specific name for a specific pattern, distinct from the general category of "transparent turner" (which could, from LifeWiki's point of view, perfectly well have its own separate article). (EDIT: hmm, just tried it -- apparently not. A disambiguation page, then.)
Not saying that that makes any of it a good idea -- I'd much prefer it if Extrementhusiast showed up and officially gave that mechanism any old easily-remembered name -- like "Extrementhusiast's Emulsifier" or something -- and then I could make a habit of using that... Hmm, Extrementhusiast's real name might give some alternate alliterative options, like "Martin's Merge(r)" or "Grant's G-to-G".
In the meantime, I think maybe what I'll do is create an article for
HNE16T14. and show the full transparent neo-Spartan merge circuit in the main text. Then maybe it will work okay to add a redirect to that article from "CP merge", and a redirect to the Scorbie Splitter from "CC merge", with cross-links from those two articles to each other. Then those two uniquely small simple cheap fast-recovering transparent-output turners will be a bit easier to find when someone is looking for them.
