Schick engine

Schick engine
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Pattern type	Tagalong Spaceship
Number of cells	39
Bounding box	20×11
Direction	Orthogonal
Period	12
Mod	12
Speed	c/2
Heat	43.2
Discovered by	Paul Schick
Year of discovery	1972
Glider synthesis Fewest gliders 10 RLE schickengine_synth.rle
Pattern files Life 1.05 schickengine_105.lif Life 1.06 schickengine_106.lif Plaintext schickengine.cells RLE schickengine.rle

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

Tagalong in green

See also

• Blinker ship 1
• Crown

External links

• Schick engine at Eric Weisstein's Treasure Trove of Life

• Schick engine at the Life Lexicon
• The Schick Engine (glider 13374) at David Eppstein's Glider Database

Catagolue

• Lightweight Schick engine at Adam P. Goucher's Catagolue

• Middleweight Schick engine at Adam P. Goucher's Catagolue

• Heavyweight Schick engine at Adam P. Goucher's Catagolue

• Asymmetric Schick engine at Adam P. Goucher's Catagolue