Caterloopillar
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| Pattern type | Spaceship | ||||||
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| Number of cells | 232815 | ||||||
| Bounding box | 734 × 514927 | ||||||
| Direction | Orthogonal | ||||||
| Period | 2000 (mod: Unknown) | ||||||
| Speed | c/8 | Unknown | ||||||
| Heat | Unknown | ||||||
| Kinetic symmetry | Unspecified | ||||||
| Discovered by | Michael Simkin | ||||||
| Year of discovery | 2016 | ||||||
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Caterloopillar is the name given to a family of spaceships constructed by Michael Simkin and completed on April 9, 2016. In particular, the name refers to the ship with speed c/8, but arbitrary speeds strictly less than c/4 can be realized.
See also
External links
- Michael Simkin (April 9, 2016). "Caterloopillar WIP (all speeds < c/4)".
- Hartmut Holzwart (September 11, 2014). "David Bell's engineless caterpillar idea revisited".
- Caterloopillar GitHub repository
- Caterloopillar c/8 RLE file
Categories:
- Patterns
- Spaceships with between 100,000 and 999,999 cells
- Periodic objects with minimum population between 100,000 and 999,999
- Patterns with between 100,000 and 999,999 cells
- Patterns found by Michael Simkin
- Patterns found in 2016
- Outer-totalistically endemic patterns
- Spaceships
- Spaceships with period 2000
- Orthogonal spaceships
- Spaceships with speed c/8
- Non-monotonic spaceships