Rectifier
The rectifier is a 180° stable glider reflector made up of two eater 1s, a block, a beehive, and a modification of eater 3. The normal tub-stabilised eater 3 can be used here to reduce the population count, but the snake-stabilised eater 3 has a smaller bounding box. The rectifier is notable for its recovery time of 106 generations and small number of catalysts. It can replace the boojum reflector in a large number of instances, although in some cases it cannot fit into the space provided due to the transparency of the beehive. It has several advantages over the boojum reflector:
- It has a much faster recovery time, allowing certain guns to be compacted;
- Its passive bounding box is slightly smaller, so it can further compact many glider guns;
- Its output path is free of catalysts, enabling it to be used as a merge device.
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Pattern type | Stable reflector | ||||||
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Number of cells | 59 | ||||||
Bounding box | 41×33 | ||||||
Angle | 180° | ||||||
Repeat time | 106 | ||||||
Discovered by | Adam P. Goucher | ||||||
Year of discovery | 2009 | ||||||
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The transparent beehive reaction was discovered by Paul Callahan in 1996.
Gallery
![]() An incoming glider (in green) and an outgoing glider (in red) 167 generations later |
gollark: I don't get it, this should basically perform *fine*.
gollark: It was +> on the old ubiqutious instance.
gollark: ```javascript let c=undefined; let okeys=Object.keys(nt) while (total>0){ let apiokey=okeys[Math.floor(Math.random()*okeys.length)]; total-=nt[apiokey]; c=apiokey } return c;```What *is* this?
gollark: Hmm, there are 1962 starters, this *cannot* be that slow.
gollark: Although it probably shouldn't run in quadratic time, at least.
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