[M2] (golly 2.0) #C Broken lines pattern - does it work forever? #C Dean Hickerson, 7 May 2005 #C See also http://yucs.org/~gnivasch/life/broken_lines/ #C #C A p48 gun sends LWSSs eastward, while an eastward p24 puffer sends LWSSs #C westward, and a northward p24 rake sends gliders southeastward. When LWSSs #C collide, they send gliders northeast and southwest. The southwest ones #C escape, forming the longest broken line. A northeast glider may crash into #C one from the rake, in a kickback reaction that sends a glider southwest. #C The surviving southeast gliders delete westward LWSSs. #C #C Sometimes a kicked-back glider hits another northeast glider, forming a #C block. Sometimes a block will be deleted by yet another northeast glider. #C But some of the blocks survive, and some of the kicked-back gliders don't #C meet other gliders; in that case they either delete one LWSS from the #C eastward stream, or pass through the westward stream and escape. #C #C There's just one problem: It's possible that a block may be formed close #C enough to the LWSS streams so that a LWSS will hit it; in that case it's #C possible (but not certain) that a mess will form that will prevent future #C LWSS collisions, and maybe destroy the gun. It doesn't happen within the #C first 535000 gens, but I'm not willing to guess that it never will. 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