Glider emulator
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| Pattern type | Tagalong Spaceship | ||||||||
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| Number of cells | 141 | ||||||||
| Bounding box | 28 × 28 | ||||||||
| Direction | Diagonal | ||||||||
| Period | 4 (mod: 2) | ||||||||
| Speed | c/4 | c/4 | ||||||||
| Heat | 131.0 | ||||||||
| Kinetic symmetry | Unspecified | ||||||||
| Discovered by | Gabriel Nivasch | ||||||||
| Year of discovery | 1999 | ||||||||
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Glider emulator is a small glide-symmetric tagalong alternating between 7 and 8 cells, pulled by two counterphased big gliders. It was discovered by Gabriel Nivasch in January 1999.
The tagalong supplies the same one-bit sparks as are found in the odd-parity phases of a glider -- so it can replace the leading glider in glider tagalongs such as Orion 2 or canada goose.
The spark has a higher clearance than in glider, so it can also pull a block. This is an example of a still life tagalong.
| Glider emulator tagalongs, namely block in the center and Wainwright’s tagalong at the right. Note that the block cannot be pulled by a normal glider despite both sharing the same spark. (click above to open LifeViewer) RLE: here Plaintext: here |
External links
- 141P4H1V1.1 at Heinrich Koenig's Game of Life Object Catalogs
Categories:
- Patterns
- Spaceships with between 140 and 149 cells
- Periodic objects with minimum population between 140 and 149
- Patterns with between 140 and 149 cells
- Patterns found by Gabriel Nivasch
- Patterns found in 1999
- Spaceships
- Tagalongs
- Spaceships with period 4
- Diagonal spaceships
- Spaceships with speed c/4
- Spaceships with unsimplified speed c/4
- Spaceships with heat between 130 and 139
- Spaceships with mod 2
- Glide symmetric spaceships