Talk:Rectifier

Uses

Why don`t I ever see this OR the boojum reflector in patterns? Why do I always see two pentadecthalons or a figure eight, a boat, and an block? -wwei23 11:58AM 10/4/2015 NY time

Population

Population count can be reduced by 4 cells by using tubs instand of snakes in eater

The reason the snakes are used on the eater 3 is to minimize the bounding box. Minimal bounding boxes are typically considered more important than minimal cell counts when dealing with stable technology.
~Sokwe 13:20, 14 October 2011 (CDT)

Removal of pauses

Regarding this edit, I think pauses are useful. Without pauses, the glider appears out of nowhere and immediately starts moving, which is non-intuitive. I think it's much easier to understand what happens if the patterns stays non-animated for some time. Confocal (talk) 06:43, 26 May 2023 (UTC)

Could modify the RLE so that the glider starts out outside the visible box, but I'm not sure if the RLE is used anywhere else that could potentially break. --Galoomba (talk) 08:45, 26 May 2023 (UTC)

One possibility is to not animate the infobox pattern at all (AUTOSTART OFF), and add some additional animated pattern in the text. An example would be a pair of rectifiers forming a loop. Could zoom in on one of two rectifiers and put multiple signals in the loop, so that input gliders continuously come "from outside" and output gliders escape "to outside" (example below). Such pattern should not be in the infobox, because it would be a signal loop rather than a reflector (while the page is about a reflector). But there should be no inconsistencies with showing it in the main text. Confocal (talk) 10:33, 26 May 2023 (UTC)

Example viewers for above discussion

x = 108, y = 86, rule = B3/S23 8bo$7bobo$8bo2$6b5o$5bo4bo20b2o$4bo2bo23bo$bo2bob2o21bobo$obobo5bo18b 2o$bo2bo4bobo8bo$4b2o2bo2bo7bobo$9b2o8bo2bo$18bo2bo18b2o$17b2o3b2o16bo $15b2o5b2o6bo7bobo$15bo6bo8b2o5b2o$16bo3bo9b2o$16bo3bo$17b3o4$29b2o$ 29b2o$30bo5$36b2o$36bobo$36bo$26b3ob3o$28b4o$28b3o$29bo6$56bobo$57b2o$ 57bo9$77bo$76bobo$76bobo$77bo$62b3o$62bo$63bo7$85b2o2$82b2o3bo$82bo4bo $82bo$68b2o13bo2bo$67bobo$67bo$66b2o$97b2o$96bo2bo2b2o$96bobo4bo2bo$ 77b2o18bo5bobobo$76bobo21b2obo2bo$76bo23bo2bo$75b2o20bo4bo$97b5o2$99bo $98bobo$99bo! #C [[ THUMBSIZE 2 THEME 6 GRID GRIDMAJOR 0 SUPPRESS THUMBLAUNCH ]] #C [[ HEIGHT 500 WIDTH 600 THUMBSIZE 2 ZOOM 12 X 32 Y 25 THEME Book STARTFROM 106 GPS 15 AUTOSTART ]]

(1) Rectifier reflecting a p106 glider stream (click above to open LifeViewer)