Loafer

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Loafer
x = 9, y = 9, rule = B3/S23 b2o2bob2o$o2bo2b2o$bobo$2bo$8bo$6b3o$5bo$6bo$7b2o! #C [[ THUMBSIZE 2 THEME 6 GRID GRIDMAJOR 0 SUPPRESS THUMBLAUNCH ]] #C [[ AUTOSTART ]] #C [[ ZOOM 32 TRACK 7 1 0 GPS 5 HEIGHT 400 WIDTH 400 ]]
Pattern type Spaceship
Number of cells 20
Bounding box 9 × 9
Direction Orthogonal
Period 7
Mod Unknown
Speed c/7 | Unknown
Heat 14.6
Discovered by Josh Ball
Year of discovery 2013

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] Two loafer guns were built on February 19th of the same year.[2]

Paul Tooke built a sawtooth, that uses loafer's ability to turn a middleweight spaceship into a loaf.[3]

Mike Playle found a stable loafer-to-Herschel conduit, apparently by means of the same search program (or its earlier version), that gave the world the snark a month and a half later.[4]

On 11 June 2016, Simon Ekström created a loafer-to-glider conduit, based on a loafer-to-pi discovered earlier by muzik.[5]

References

  1. Adam Goucher (March 10, 2013). "c/7 Orthogonal Spaceship". Retrieved on March 16, 2013.
  2. Shannon Omick (February 18, 2013). "Re: c/7 orthogonal spaceships". Retrieved on March 6, 2016.
  3. Paul Tooke (February 22, 2013). "Re: c/7 orthogonal spaceships". Retrieved on October 2, 2013.
  4. Mike Playle (March 9, 2013). "Re: c/7 orthogonal spaceships". Retrieved on October 22, 2014.
  5. simeks (11 June 2016). "Re: Thread For Requesting Help". Retrieved on 12 June 2016.

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