Bandersnatch

The Bandersnatch is a 0° stable color-changing glider reflector (also known as a "glider shifter") discovered by Entity Valkyrie on June 5, 2020 based on a reaction by Martin Grant.[1] The repeat time is 70, slightly less than the syringe's repeat time of 78. Since it contains an eater 2, an eater 1, a loaf and four blocks, it is Spartan. The name is taken from Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark.

Bandersnatch
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Pattern type Stable reflector
Number of cells 49
Bounding box 32×28
Angle 0°
Repeat time 70
Colour Colour-changing
Discovered by Martin Grant
Entity Valkyrie
Year of discovery 2020

The day of its discovery, Goldtiger997 used this reflector to reduce the repeat time of the highway robber.[2] Later that day, Tanner Jacobi used it to reduce the size of the period-70 glider gun,[3] and Adam P. Goucher discovered that the glider produced by the Bandersnatch could be fed into a nearby rectifier to produce an efficient merge circuit.[4] On June 10, Sphenocorona constructed a period-143 oscillator using two Bandersnatches and two copies of 66P13.[5]

See also

References
  1. Entity Valkyrie (June 5, 2020). Re: Execution of Old Guns by Variable-Speed Firing Squad (discussion thread) at the ConwayLife.com forums
  2. Goldtiger997 (June 5, 2020). Re: Highway robber challenge (discussion thread) at the ConwayLife.com forums
  3. Tanner Jacobi (June 5, 2020). Re: Execution of Old Guns by Variable-Speed Firing Squad (discussion thread) at the ConwayLife.com forums
  4. Adam P. Goucher (June 5, 2020). Re: Execution of Old Guns by Variable-Speed Firing Squad (discussion thread) at the ConwayLife.com forums
  5. Sphenocorona (June 10, 2020). Re: Oscillator Discussion Thread (discussion thread) at the ConwayLife.com forums
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