Backrake 2

Backrake 2
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Pattern type	Rake Puffer
Number of cells	60
Bounding box	19 × 26
Direction	Orthogonal
Period	12
Speed	c/2
Discovered by	David Buckingham
Year of discovery	Unknown
Pattern files Plaintext backrake2.cells RLE backrake2.rle

Backrake 2 is a period 12 backrake that was created by David Buckingham. It works by having a front puffer made up of two lightweight spaceships, a middleweight spaceship, and a B-heptomino (much like puffer 2) send debris back to another lightweight and middleweight spaceship, which turn the debris into a backward-moving glider.

Three copies of this backrake feature in total aperiodic.