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C - E collisions

Any description of collisions with E gliders can become quite complicated simply because of the large variety of E gliders, on account of their extendability. From a much larger perspective, there is far less variation because large E gliders are really margins of the alpha lattice, whose interface with other lattices is periodic on a sufficiently large scale.
  
Figure 3.15: Some selected collisions amongst C, E, EBar, and F gliders exhibit the properties of solitons.
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Figure 3.16: A pair of C's standing to the left can act as an En decrementer similar an A coming in from the left. Still others simply get eaten away as the En dissolves into a burst of B gliders which the next C in line refurbishes into another En.
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Figure 3.17: Many collisions with E complexes simply unravel the margin of an &alpha domain, which means that they will always follow a predictable pattern.
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Figure 3.18: C2 collides with E, producing a shower of B's. These can collide with a waiting C2 to restore the E, but with decremented index.
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