I studied a bit the collision between of a glider and a blinker. In most of all constellations all cells disappear.
However, similarly as for glider-glider collisions other outputs are possible. This is:
- block
- blinker
- traffic light
- ship
- loaf
- pond
such as three Methuselah:
- #1 a house (which is essentially the Methuselah from the Pi-heptomino, it produces no gliders)
- #2 a 8J (see
http://codercontest.com/mniemiec/meth.htm#meth-8 , it produces 2 gliders)
and another Methuselah, that is not in the actual data base (
http://codercontest.com/mniemiec/lifesrch.htm), I call a glider-blinker mess:
The #3 Methuselah has a lifespan of 2604 generations (just above the glider-mango mess) with a final (constant) population of 279.
It produces:
blinker: 30 (including 3 traffic lights)
blocks: 27
beehive: 6
glider:5
boat: 4
So, it produces 5 new gliders (that fly in three different directions) which is more than any collision of two gliders. This might be used to build fancy chains.
I know that the Methuselah itself is not that impressive, but as it results from a glider collusion with one of the most present object it is worth considering it. By the way, unfortunately a collision between a block and a glider never produces any glider.
The glider-blinker mess:
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x = 5, y = 6, rule = B3/S23
o$o$o$2b3o$2bo$3bo!