Heavyweight spaceship
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| Heavyweight Spaceship | |||||||
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| Pattern type | Spaceship | ||||||
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| Number of cells | 13 | ||||||
| Bounding box | 7 × 5 | ||||||
| Direction | Orthogonal | ||||||
| Period | 4 (mod: Unknown) | ||||||
| Speed | c/2 | Unknown | ||||||
| Heat | 19 | ||||||
| Kinetic symmetry | Unspecified | ||||||
| Discovered by | John Conway | ||||||
| Year of discovery | 1970 | ||||||
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The heavyweight spaceship (or HWSS for short) is the fourth most common spaceship (after the glider, lightweight spaceship and middleweight spaceship). It was found by John Conway in 1970.
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See also
External links
- Heavyweight spaceship at the Life Lexicon
Categories:
- Patterns
- Spaceships with 13 cells
- Periodic objects with minimum population 13
- Patterns with 13 cells
- Patterns found by John Conway
- Patterns found in 1970
- Patterns that can be constructed with 3 gliders
- Spaceships
- Spaceships with period 4
- Orthogonal spaceships
- Spaceships with speed c/2
- Spaceships with heat 19
- Glide symmetric spaceships