Guns involving conduits

[Quantum-mechanics]

This only can contain gun involving conduit.

[HerscheltheHerschel]

Thread name in proper English: Guns involving conduits

[dvgrn]

This thread got a "suggestion" type of post report, saying that it wasn't clear that this topic really needs its own thread.

We have three existing threads on the Patterns board for collecting glider guns.
Execution of Old Guns focuses on bounding-box optimization, Gun Discussion Thread is for new gun mechanisms or designs, and Small Four-Digit Prime Period Guns is self-explanatory.

I would tend to agree that "guns involving conduits" is much too broad a topic to really need its own thread on the Patterns board. There are untold billions of guns involving conduits, starting with a large subset of the guns in the older version of Dieter and Peter's glider gun collection. (A program called Hersrch was used to generate all the periods below 1000 that were missing as of early 2003.)

There are a lot more types of conduits available now than there were in 2003, which only makes the category even larger than it was then.

That said, a Sandbox thread called "guns involving conduits" is totally fine if people want it -- as a "construction practice" type of thread. So I've moved this thread over here to the Sandbox board.

[confocaloid]

Here is an old (made around February 2023) p5099 glider gun involving some conduits (including bronco, syringe, Snark, tremi-Snark, a beehive factory, and some Herschel conduits):

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#C [[ MAXGRIDSIZE 9 GRID THEME Catagolue ]]
x = 184, y = 119, rule = B3/S23
124b2o$123bobo$117b2o4bo$115bo2bo2b2ob4o$115b2obobobobo2bo$118bobobobo
$118bobob2o$119bo2$132b2o$123b2o7bo$123b2o5bobo$55b2o2bo70b2o$54bob4o$
54bo$52b2ob7o$50bo2bobo6bo$50b2o3bob2o2b2o$54b2ob2o$120b2o$121bo$118b
3o$56b2o60bo$56b2o8b2o$66bo$64bobo$64b2o3$86b2o$86bo$87bo52b2o$82b2o2b
2o52bobo$54b2o26bobo55bo$55bo28bob4o$52b3o28b2obo2bo$52bo2$56bo$55bobo
$56bo48b2o$105bo$54b5o44bobo$54bo4bo43b2o9b2o$46b2o9bo2bo53b2o$40bob2o
bobo9b2obo2bo$40b2obobo8bo5bobobo$44b2o7bobo4bo2bo71bo$53bo2bo2b2o73bo
bo5bo$54b2o79bo4b3o$41b2o96bo$41b2o23bo47bo24b2o$64b3o46bobo$11bo51bo
19bo29bobo$11b3o49b2o17b2o30bo23b2o$14bo67bobo53bobo$13b2o125bo$139bo$
4b2o134b3o36b2o$3bobo136bo36bo$3bo177bo$2obo157b2o14b5o$bobob2o155bo
13bo$bobob2o67b2o86bobo12b3o$2obo7b2o61b2o31b2o8b2o44b2o15bo$o2b4o3bo
2bo7b2o83bo2bo7b2o58b4o$b2o3bo4b2o8bobo82bo2bo16b2o44b2o3bo3b2o$3b2o
18bo20b2o60bo2bo17bo44b2o4b3o2bo$3bo19b2o19b2o61b2o15b3o53bob2o$5bo
118bo55bo$4b2o65b2o106b2o$40b2o29bo19b2o$41bo30bo17bobo11b2o$41bobo22b
2o3b2o17bo13b2o7b2o56b2o$42b2o22bobo20b2o22bo57bo$68bo45b3o55b3o$58b2o
8b2o46bo57bo$58b2o$42b2o$41bobo$41bo$40b2o34b2o$76b2o12bo$50b2o36b3o
43b2o$50b2o24b4o7bo37b2o7b2o$73bobo4bo6b2o37bo$71b3ob2o2b2o45bobo$70bo
56b2o$67bo2b4ob2o33bo$67b3o3bob2o31b3o$70bo36bo$69b2o36b2o2$126bo$126b
3o$55bo61bo11bo$53b3o61b3o8b2o14bo$52bo67bo22bobo$52b2o65b2o23bo$37b2o
$38bo$38bob2o$39bo2bo98b2o$40b2o99bobo$55b2o86bo$55b2o86b2o$139b2o$81b
2o24b2o30bo$75b2o4bobo10b2o11b2o23b2o6b3o$76bo6bo11bo36bo9bo$63bo3b2o
4b3o7b2o7b3o38b3o$62bobo3bo4bo18bo42bo$58b2obobo3bo$58b2obo4bo44b2o70b
o$62b5obo43bo68bobo$54b2obob2obo4bobo39b3o70b2o$54bob2obo2bob2o2bo40bo
$47b2o12b2obob2o$47b2o!