Warp wrote:
>   So basically you have a construct which produces gliders at certain
> intervals, and another which eats them at certain intervals, and it's
> only a question of aligning and synchronizing them properly in order to
> get any specified combination of gliders moving to the left?

Essentially.

I think it's more like you have a construct that will reflect a glider, and 
one that will reflect a glider while duplicating it at 90 degrees. You like 
up a bunch of these on a diagonal, and put in the pattern of gliders that 
represents the horizontal rows.

So each diagonal thing has a pattern of gliders circling back and forth. 
Each time a glider gets to the bottom of it (for the reddit alien) it gets 
duplicated heading left. Make the diagonals, synchronize it, and you get 
whatever pattern of dots you put in.

I'm not sure where the "eating" part of your description fits in. It's more 
a reflection at the end that's not making the picture, and a duplication at 
the end that is.


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