R64

R64 is an elementary conduit, one of the original sixteen Herschel conduits, discovered by Dave Buckingham in September 1995. After 64 ticks, it produces a Herschel rotated 90 degrees clockwise at (11, 9) relative to the input. Its recovery time is 153 ticks. This can be improved to 61 ticks by adding a from-the-side 7×9 eater inside the turn, as shown in the infobox to avoid interference from the output Herschel's first natural glider, and further reduced to 57 ticks with an eater 1 (in the ghost position) to remove the temporary first natural block. In the pattern shown in the infobox, a ghost Herschel marks the output location.

R64
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Pattern type Conduit
Conduit type Elementary
Input Herschel
Number of cells 50
Bounding box 33×26
Output orientation Turned right
Output offset (11, 9)
Step 64 ticks
Recovery time
(ignoring FNG if any) 		153 ticks
Minimum overclock period
(ignoring FNG if any) 		Unknown
Spartan? Yes
Dependent? No
Discovered by David Buckingham
Year of discovery 1995

R64 is the first known stable conduit, and one of the three known Blockic (and consequently Spartan) conduits. It was inspired from Mark Niemiec's early investigation of common methuselahs in 1973, where he observed that a new B-heptomino, turned 90 degrees, arises from the evolution of a B-heptomino at generation 64 along with the first natural glider and some other debris. Before the p1 conduit, Dave Buckingham found three periodic versions employing copies of Kok's galaxy, figure eight, mazing and blocker in 1991:

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