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2007 May 17

Oscillators
New Long Period Oscillators

Here's another set of miscellaneous long-period oscillators found recently—

694P12 First is a huge Period 12 Oscillator found by Jason Summers. It consists of two pairs of Period 6 Fountain Oscillators flipping back-and-forth a Period 12 Rotor.

140P24 A Period 25 Pre-Pulsar Pusher, also found by Summers. The Period 5 Oscillators provide sparks which push the Pre-Pulsar 3 cells in 11 generations, while the stable objects return it in 14 generations.

P44 oscillators Another type is a Period 44 Oscillator. Shown here are two ways to suppress the double Pi Heptominoes thrown off every cycle. He suggests that these Pis can be perterbed to produce other objects, including Glider Guns.

moreP44 oscillators Nicolay Beluchenko found a number of ways to two or four of these Period 44 engines to interact and support each other. Shown here are just a sample of these.

more P44 oscillators Beluchenko also found a wick version, for which Artem Dergachev found the simple Block stabilizers.

P44 glider gun Finally, Beluchenko was able to create a Glider Gun by changing the phase of one of the rotors and using a Fishhook Eater to suppress part of the interacton between the two.