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Tofolli investigated the billiard ball model. Here is what I've found: http://www.cs.unb.ca/profs/gdueck/cours ... rs/BBM.pdf.

Thanks for explanation! :D

But I noticed that the LifeWiki wicks/fuses collection is very small, so I am trying to make new wicks, so is is less probable that people will say "No, no, this was already invented..."


Making spacefillers from these principles seems difficult however since we'd need ...

A simple wick made of blinkers, that, when activated by a block, burns moving it to the other side!
It works in any part of it's period.
Here is it, with the basis reaction:


x = 259, y = 152, rule = B3/S23
8$202bo$197bo4bo$192bo4bo4bo$187bo4bo4bo7bo$182bo4bo4bo7bo4bo$48b2o3bo ...

After some time playing around with *WSSs, I noted that various OverWeight Spaceships can stabilize each other:
x = 25, y = 220, rule = B3/S23
7$7b13o$6bo12bo$19bo$6bo11bo2$6bo11bo$19bo$6bo12bo$7b13o4$7b13o$6bo12b
o$19bo$6bo11bo2$6bo11bo$19bo$6bo12bo$7b13o4$7b13o$6bo12bo$19bo$6bo11bo
2$6bo11bo$19bo ...

Replicator based sawtooth spaceship:

x = 26, y = 18, rule = B36/S23
$8b3o$7bo3bo$b3o2bo4bo$5bo2bo2bo$5bo4bo$5bo3bo$6b3o2$16b3o$15bo3bo$14b
o4bo$13bo2bo2bo$13bo4bo$13bo3bo$14b3o!

Something's wrong with your pattern.

Sorry, that's what I meant:

x = 22, y = 17, rule = B36/S23
2$3o6b3o$8bo3bo ...

Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billiard-Ball_Computer

A Billiard Ball Computer is is a computer based in the Billiard ball model, that can
be simulated with the Margolus neighborhood. I have built the AND gate shown
in the page: ( It is rotated 45 degrees )

x = 98, y = 69, rule = BBM ...

Replicator based sawtooth spaceship:

Wolfram 22 emerging from junk in Life! Rotate by 90 degrees and run. The rotated version code is 16.484 characters long.