JP21 wrote: March 17th, 2025, 10:07 pm
maybe or maybe not useless, i "discovered" a p7 2c/3 signal injector from the p7 part of the large sparker that supports the p14 glider gun
Here's a reduction of the p7 heavywweight emulator from 518 cells to 503 cells using the recent p7 2c/3 signal injector reduction to substitute for a larger 2c/3 signal injector:
The top glider stream with a p5 oscillator, giving more potential room for the much more difficult oscillator below. Here is an example that is much larger than necessary. I found it quickly with LLS and JLS with no attempts at optimization, as it's only meant to demonstrate the reaction:
I'll take a renewed look at the bottom potential p5 to see if this makes the problem more solvable. It's certainly to the point where I believe it could be solved with a bit of dedicated effort.
iNoMed wrote: March 18th, 2025, 2:17 pm
Here's a reduction of the p7 heavywweight emulator from 518 cells to 503 cells using the recent p7 2c/3 signal injector reduction to substitute for a larger 2c/3 signal injector:
JP21 wrote: March 18th, 2025, 11:43 pm
I think I should mention my past failures to get a p15 reflector working
Thanks. I'll give these a try soon. In the mean time, here is another seemingly useless p7 signal injector that I found incidentally when trying to reduce the p14 gun, although due to a bad setup the stator of the solution it was a part of could not be completed:
This seems to be the first ever 4 mod 15 rephasing, although it's made of known parts (except possibly the transparent blinker — the previously known form as in 2024's p133 used two fishhooks in place of it).
By the way, that other component also looks familiar. I think it was first spotted at the back of another sparker or something, and somebody -tho I don't remember who- dimerized it using Montana. The stabilization in your reflector is smaller, however. Here are both, for your curiosity:
Here's an 80-cell period-24 honey farm hassler variant (specifically, a smaller stabilisation of the variant from the p24 gliderless LWSS gun) using the period-3 versatile catalyst:
Currently working to improve Life's guns and work on updating SKOPs and Isotropic rules most similar to B3/S23 to Life standards. Will get software to begin searches eventually.
Sokwe wrote: March 20th, 2025, 9:08 pm
Here is an absurdly large solution the p15 independent reflector partial on the left, found with a combination of LLS and JLS:
Ugly but counts as a bounding box reduction, I guess?
