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These will be a p84 and p86 gun for the 3c/6 as soon as we have a suitable sideshooting RT≤84 x>U, if anyone wants to beat my conduit search attempts. Catalysts not optimized at all:

#C p84
x = 52, y = 55, rule = B3air4aceirw567/S2-a3-aejr4cknqy5ejky8History
49.A.A$49.A.A$49.A.A$49.A.A$9.A39.A.A$8 ...

Yes! That's "the small 3c/6" I was referring to a couple posts ago. Check out the stamp collections in the first post to get up to speed. You can also scroll through some of the Catagolue censuses .

Incidentally I was just looking at this ship's appearance in this C1_spaceinvaders soup from one of ...

Nice, it's this one but with a different stator:

Edit: Here's every new oscillator I've posted on the Lounge (plus a p48 I didn't post there).
p74, p146, p16, non-LCM p65, p48

x = 140, y = 25, rule = B3air4aceirw567/S2-a3-aejr4cknqy5ejky8
7bo25bo5bo31bo27bo7bo21bo5bo ...

I'm still having trouble figuring out where to start poking at this rule's depth. I only have some census-y remarks:

Objects and names

Blam & blamshell
x = 3, y = 3, rule = B3air4aceirw567/S2-a3-aejr4cknqy5ejky8
bo$3o$bo!

Renaming this one to "blam" instead of bam ("blam" sounds sillier and ...

I've been eminently lazy as of late. I threw this rule at Claude and told it it should do a breakthrough and find a p29. It wrote a CatForcey BFS tool and did it:


x = 14, y = 19, rule = B3air4aceirw567/S2-a3-aejr4cknqy5ejky8
bo$obo6bo$o2b2o5bo$bobo7bo$2bo5b4o$8bobobo$8bobo2bo$8b3o$6bob2o$4bo5bo ...

Sounds good! With that in mind, here's (finally) a stable W->U:
x = 72, y = 73, rule = B3air4aceirw567/S2-a3-aejr4cknqy5ejky8History
38.2A6.2A$37.A2.A4.A2.A$36.A2.A6.A2.A$35.A2.A8.A2.A$34.A2.A10.A.A$34.
A.A12.A3.B$35.A2.2B12.3B$37.4B4.B6.4B$35.6B3.4B3.4B$33.15B3.5B$33.15B
.8B$32.25B$33.25B$29.2B2 ...

Fun crystal thing:

x = 48, y = 49, rule = B2e3aijr4aw/S1c23-air4-aij6acn
28b2o$13bobo14bo9b2o2b2o$14bo13b2o11b2o3bo$13bobo24b2obobo$41bo$45b2o$
47bo$45b2o2$24bobo$24bobo$25bo4$obo$bo$obo2$26bobo$27bo$26bobo2$obo$bo
$obo2$26bobo$27bo$26bobo2$obo$bo$obo5$17bobo$18bo$17bobo2$17bobo$18bo$
17bobo6bobo ...

Thanks, great catch! And thanks ThrashBin for the ships. I updated the osc and (finally) spaceship stamp collections!

I don't have any new circuitry, but just some thoughts --

There are two frequent symmetrical reactions that I think could become conduit objects, but they're of course a bit harder ...

I was talking about how the B4w condition in the rule 5W is annoying when it comes to trying to find SL stabilizations, and as a result I started playing around with subtracting B4w from 5W (producing a rule family we can call "1W"). This variant, which is also -B6a, has a strange linear replicator ...

Found a rule family that's very circuitry-friendly. I'm defining the family as the rulespace between B2e3aijr4a/S1c23ejknq4crtz and B2e3aijkr4-ijntyz5ce6cin78/S1c23-ar4-aij5-r678 , which are the min and max rules of these triplication and 90deg reflection reactions:

x = 36, y = 9, rule ...

Yay! I updated the osc stamp collection.

A bunch of nothingburger updates from me --

1. I've resumed trying to make a transparent-diamond memory cell via the tried-and-horribly-untrue method of manual catforcing (tFrece-ing). I actually have pzq_alex's ntcatforce compiled for this rule but I'm ...

Brilliant, this is getting really good :mrgreen: Just a couple weeks ago I lamented finding the p136 signal generator because I didn't have anything that worked at periods as low as 136!

hibiscus found this p27 amid other results:

x = 38, y = 38, rule = B3air4aceirw567/S2-a3-aejr4cknqy5ejky8
13bo ...

Noticed that FWKnightship did a D2_x_skewgutter_stdin census in the base rule, which is a great idea because it helps find symmetric oscillators where the halves naturally support each other due to the rule's diagonal-line dynamics. (EDIT: fixed attribution! Sorry!)

Alongside an interesting p80 ...

Thanks :) Just updated the collections again.

It turns out that the hard-to-use X->W from my last post can be chained to itself to make a p78 and a repeat-time-42 track:

x = 79, y = 198, rule = B3air4aceirw567/S2-a3-aejr4cknqy5ejky8History
41.A$40.A.A$39.A2.A$39.A.A$40.A$31.3D$30.D2.D4.D$30.D2.D3 ...

Amazing! I'll try to get the c/3 gun looking similarly slick (but I'll also readily welcome getting beat to the punch).

I wanted to share some random small things. First is that I noticed that the original magic trick, now that we have the vocabulary to express this, is really a TW->X:

#C [[ STOP ...

Here is a p408 gun for the small c/3:

x = 205, y = 216, rule = B3air4aceirw567/S2-a3-aejr4cknqy5ejky8History
137.A$136.A.A$135.A3.A$112.A12.2B7.A5.A$111.A.A10.4B5.A7.A$86.4B3.2A
15.A3.A8.6B3.A9.A$84.3B2A2B.A2.2A12.A2.BA9.6B2.A11.A$83.3BA4B2.A3.A
12.ABAB9.7BA13.A$82.3B4A3B2.A.A2.B6.3B.BA3B8.6B2.A11 ...

I want to add to Sokwe's post that Paul Tooke's work on utilities we use, gencols and gfind , had a dramatic impact on the direction of this community that I actually didn't understand until today. His work was prescient in that it seems to have gone unappreciated by people other than Eric Goldstein ...

Great ships! The rules nearby this one are pretty interesting. -B6a has the small symmetric 3c/6 show up extremely frequently and still has an engineerable wham (whampuffers and even breeders show up a whole lot more than in this rule), and it makes me wonder how realistically engineerable base 5W ...

The oscs are all in the collection in the first post, but naming the p9 is fair play! I don't think anyone's proposed another name yet. rabbit joked about calling the p17 "Narcissus" which I like too.

Speaking of the osc collection, I finally got the chance to update it and the conduit collection ...

Awesome!! Much much more organized than my initial wham attempts. There's a ton of updates I have to make to the stamp collections.

I'll add that, in trying to hunt for low repeat times to knock out osc periods, I mainly tried branching out from this X -> W -> X and variant X -> W -> active region ...

Really nice additions! Added everything to the stamp collection, including an accidental variant of the p146. The p11 turns out to have a few variants in between this one and the one from Catagolue, and in the process of messing with those I found this stator for a p58:

x = 27, y = 10, rule ...

With the primer out of the way, here's an update on the current state of things. First, here's an unoptimized/unreduced p408 Cordergun fed by the p136 signal generator from my last TFYUCA post. It turns out the most common Corderoid is super easy to construct because you just have to slam two whams ...

This rule was originally named "Wright's Wrevised Wrhombic Wrectangle Wrule" by rabbit (after the fact that it was the second or third rule of its type that I shared). I've renamed it to Wham World, wham world, whamworld, whatever, to pay homage to the W thing and also tie in the name of the rule's ...

Boring-ish rule with a cool p58:
x = 11, y = 18, rule = B2ci3aejn/S2-c3-enr4-ait
4bobo$3b2ob2o$2bo5bo$3b2ob2o$4bobo$bobo3bobo$4o3b4o$bo7bo$4bobo$4bobo
2$b2obobob2o$2bo5bo$5bo2$3b2ob2o$3b2ob2o$5bo!
Examples:
x = 565, y = 406, rule = B2ci3aejn/S2-c3-enr4-ait
441bobo$441bobo$441bobo2$442bo4 ...

x = 76, y = 16, rule = B2n3aciqr4aer5iq6cin8/S2-i3-a4ikqyz5eqr6cen7e
60bo4bobo2bo2b3o$60bo2bob5obobo$61b2o3bobo5bo$60bo3bob2o4b2obo$41b2o
18bo4b2o2b3obo$5bo34bo2bo20b2obobobob3o$2bob3o14bo6b3o2b3o3bo2bobo16bo
2bobo3bob2o$b5o14bobo6bo4bo5bobo2bo14bo3bo2b2o3b3o$2bobo14bo3bo17bob3o
15bobobo2bo5b2o ...