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Extrementhusiast wrote:I thought I provided an example.

You did. It was a good post, I'm just having a little trouble understanding what you mean when you say "diagonal."

By diagonal, do you mean something in the glider's shape, something relative to the direction of travel, or something else?

That sounds pretty good, but could you help me understand what you mean by "orientation to the diagonal?"


Edit:

I like your idea of measuring from the middle and of starting the description with a compass direction.

Would there be any downside if it were understood that the first glider ...

Figuring out how to intelligently smash gliders into each other seems to be an important part of this life stuff.

Has anyone worked out a form of notation to describe the timing and position of two (or more) gliders that are going to collide? I've seen people use ASCII to draw small patterns, but ...