Loafer

	Loafer
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Pattern type	Spaceship
Number of cells	20
Bounding box	10 × 10
Direction	Orthogonal
Period	7
Mod	Unknown
Speed	c/7 \| Unknown
Heat	14.6
Discovered by	Josh Ball
Year of discovery	2013
Rules
Outer-totalistic rules	B3/S23 – B378/S23678
# of rules	25 = 32
Glider synthesis
Fewest gliders	8
Uploaded synthesis RLE	loafer_synth.rle
Pattern files
Plaintext	loafer.cells
RLE	loafer.rle

Loafer is a c/7 orthogonal spaceship found by Josh Ball on February 17, 2013. Its name refers to its slow speed and loaf-pushing behaviour. Adam P. Goucher found an 18-glider synthesis for this spaceship on the day of its discovery, and Matthias Merzenich reduced this to 8 gliders the following day.^[1]

Notes

↑ Adam Goucher (March 10, 2013). "c/7 Orthogonal Spaceship". Retrieved on March 16, 2013.