Schick engine
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| Pattern type | Tagalong Spaceship | ||||||
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| Number of cells | 39 | ||||||
| Bounding box | 20 × 11 | ||||||
| Direction | Orthogonal | ||||||
| Period | 12 | ||||||
| Mod | Unknown | ||||||
| Speed | c/2 | Unknown | ||||||
| Heat | 43.2 | ||||||
| Discovered by | Paul Schick | ||||||
| Year of discovery | 1972 | ||||||
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Schick engine (or Schick ship) is an orthogonal c/2 spaceship that was found by Paul Schick in 1972. Alternatively, it may refer just to the tagalong (displayed in green) that is attached to the back of the two lightweight spaceships. The tagalong may also be attached to the back of two middleweight spaceships, two heavyweight spaceships, or a lightweight spaceship and a heavyweight spaceship.
Its eleven-cell rear spark can be perturbed by other c/2 spaceships to form a variety of puffers and thus it is a puffer engine.
The Schick engine and its variants have not yet appeared naturally, but have emerged from symmetric soups on Catagolue.
Gallery
File:Schickengine.png Tagalong in green |
See also
External links
- Schick engine at the Life Lexicon
- The Schick Engine (glider 13374) at David Eppstein's Glider Database
Catagolue
Categories:
- Patterns
- Spaceships with 39 cells
- Periodic objects with minimum population 39
- Patterns with 39 cells
- Patterns found by Paul Schick
- Patterns found in 1972
- Patterns that can be constructed with 10 gliders
- Spaceships
- Tagalongs
- Spaceships with period 12
- Orthogonal spaceships
- Spaceships with speed c/2
- Spaceships with heat 43
- Smoking ships
- Puffer engines