Wicks & Fuses
Wick and Wave Stabilization
Wicks & Fuses
Jason Summers has done some work on creating 'fencepost' stabilizations for the ends of previously known but untamed fenceposts and barber poles.
Hartmut Holzwart and Nicolay Beluchenko have been working on the moving equivalent of a fencepost, for an oblique p4 wave pattern that can be stabilized at the trailing end by a c/4 'eater' spaceship, along the lines of recent 'anteater' patterns. A matching 'stretcher' end for the same wave is currently an open problem.
Here are some further results from Hartmut Holzwart related to this wave pattern.