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Just learned about 180 degree reflectors, so to practice I made an oscillator:

x = 59, y = 70, rule = B3/S23
53b2o$53b2o$2o$1b1o8b1o$1b1o1b1o6b3o$2b2o2b2o5b1o$5b1o1b1o4b2o$5b1o
$5b1o2b1o6b2o$15b2o$7b2o$2b2o3b1o42b2o3b2o$2b1o2b2o$3b3o1b1o43b1o3b
1o$6b1o45b3o$3b3o46b3o$3b1o$1$21b2o$20b2o$22b1o ...

This part of the forum appears to be discussing and collecting new glider guns up to period 1000. But it's impossible to weed through posts to collect them. Is Dieter and Peter's updated collection from Jason Summers still the "official" repository or is there another place. I'm willing to help ...

What are the names of guns that shoot periodic salvo's, e.g. two gliders 30P apart, then wait 60P, and two gliders 30P apart. I found others with 4 gliders and a longer wait in-between.

x = 43, y = 35, rule = B3/S23
60b1o$60b2o$48b2o11b2o8b2o$47b3o3b1o7b3o7b2o$37b2o5b1o1b2o4b4o5b2o ...

Conway's Game of Life book is helping me to be less intimidated by the enormous amount of patterns and names of Game of Life, wished I had it in the last 40+ years of playing with Game of Life. Right now, I'm interested in creating and dissecting guns, and shooting gun output streams at objects or ...