Almost knightship

Almost knightship
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Pattern type	Miscellaneous
Number of cells	67
Bounding box	13×19
Discovered by	Eugene Langvagen
Year of discovery	2004
Rules Outer-totalistic rules only Important rules Conway Life # of rules Unknown
Pattern files Plaintext almostknightship.cells RLE almostknightship.rle

Almost knightship is a partial spaceship discovered by Eugene Langvagen on March 23, 2004.^{[citation needed]} It would have been an elementary knightship if two cells at the back end were not incorrect after the 6th generation, which provided evidence that small elementary knightships may exist within a considerably small bounding box.

Several more small almost knightships were found by Tomas Rokicki in February 2018, using a SAT solver, of velocities (2,1)c/6 and (2,1)c/7. Further searching by Adam P. Goucher based on these partials led to the finding of a true elementary knightship, Sir Robin.

A further (2,1)c/7 almost knightship was found by Goucher on December 12, 2020.

Image gallery

generation 0 (left) and generation 6 (right) show that the pattern is different by only two cells

See also

• Sir Robin

External links

• Almost knightship at the Life Lexicon