Overweight spaceship

From LifeWiki
Revision as of 23:21, 27 March 2016 by Apple Bottom (talk | contribs) (LinkLexicon)
Jump to navigation Jump to search
The printable version is no longer supported and may have rendering errors. Please update your browser bookmarks and please use the default browser print function instead.
Overweight Spaceship
Overweight Spaceship image
Pattern type Miscellaneous
Number of cells 15
Bounding box 8 × 5
Discovered by John Conway
Year of discovery 1970

An overweight spaceship (or OWSS for short) is a would-be spaceship similar to the lightweight spaceship, middleweight spaceship and heavyweight spaceship, but longer. On its own an overweight spaceship is unstable because the three cells at its top do not die off like the corresponding sparks at the top of the smaller spaceships. Nonetheless, it can be escorted by true spaceships to form a flotilla.

Overweight Spaceship with escort

For OWSS with top spark over 4, minimal escort size difference is 4, as shown.

External links