Coe ship
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| Pattern type | Puffer engine Spaceship | ||||||||
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| Number of cells | 28 | ||||||||
| Bounding box | 17 × 12 | ||||||||
| Direction | Orthogonal | ||||||||
| Period | 16 (mod: 16) | ||||||||
| Speed | c/2 | Unknown | ||||||||
| Heat | 38.0 | ||||||||
| Kinetic symmetry | Unspecified | ||||||||
| Discovered by | Tim Coe | ||||||||
| Year of discovery | 1995 | ||||||||
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The Coe ship is the first period-16 c/2 orthogonal spaceship to be discovered; by Tim Coe in October 1995. It works as a puffer engine because it produces a long spark behind it as it moves.
If nontrivial flotillae are not counted, then Coe ship is the fifth most common naturally occurring spaceship, appearing once per 171,000,000 heavyweight spaceships.
Despite its small size, it never appeared in a soup until 2015 when apgsearch was devised. By doing so, it became the first naturally occurring non-period-4 spaceship to occur in Life out of an asymmetric random starting pattern.[1] A second Coe ship appeared in June 2016, and three more shortly after. However, the Schick engines and the copperhead have appeared in symmetric soups.
Image gallery
Just a few of the many rakes and puffers which can be powered by the Coe ship [2]
 Coe ship powering a backward rake |
 Coe ship powering a forward rake |
 Coe ship powering a block puffer |
See also
References
- ↑ https://catagolue.appspot.com/census/b3s23/C1/xq16
- ↑ http://entropymine.com/jason/life/#collections (jslife/c2-extended/c2-0016.lif)
External links
- Coe ship at the Life Lexicon
- The Coe Ship (glider 9152) at David Eppstein's Glider Database
- Patterns
- Spaceships with 28 cells
- Periodic objects with minimum population 28
- Patterns with 28 cells
- Patterns found by Tim Coe
- Patterns found in 1995
- Patterns that can be constructed with 8 gliders
- Spaceships
- Puffer engines
- Spaceships with period 16
- Orthogonal spaceships
- Spaceships with speed c/2
- Spaceships with heat 38
- Spaceships with mod 16
- Smoking ships
- Rakes
- Puffers