| This pattern is a high point of simplicity. Its final form is entirely due to a single by now familiar "Honalee" conversion from a track laying engine to a common puffer which repeats every 96 cells sending out two rakes, each asymmetric ship (asym) in the second of which is guaranteed under diagonal symmetry to form a ubiquitous double diagonally symmetric (ddsym) seed when it meets its pair on the diagonal and thus build an also now familiar "Sworder" at each end of one diagonal axis. The pattern on the short diagonal is due to a single ddsym being formed from an early asym out of Honalee and staying isolated for a lot longer than anywhere else before being disturbed by the creeping infill that maintains the slow growth of viable cores. The only other mostly puffer engines formed during the 200,000 iterations added to the infill, including one track layer still active at the end. | This pattern is a high point of complexity. At 100,000 it had been the kind of nearly completed square that can be produced by two orthogonal Honalees with four puffers directing rakes across each diagonal quadrant. Close proximity to an earlier puffer forced the first, E-bound, Delta to experience a period tripling amongst its usual doublings and thus form the series of N-bound track laying engines 672 cells apart. These are alternately modified by tagalongs to form the novel "banner" far from the Delta. The second rake from the third W-bound puffer activated the second, thus starting then inevitable "Rugby" which deltified the three. Other relative rarities followed unsurprisingly in the chaotic zone between the separating periodic fronts, including a standard N-bound naked Delta deep in the outbound stream and a rakeless Delta S-bound from the core extension in that direction. |
Next Newer Thread
Three newer sub-threads 
Ten older sub-threads 
Next Older Thread