Loafer
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| Pattern type | Spaceship | ||||||
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| Number of cells | 20 | ||||||
| Bounding box | 9 × 9 | ||||||
| Direction | Orthogonal | ||||||
| Period | 7 (mod: Unknown) | ||||||
| Speed | c/7 | Unknown | ||||||
| Heat | 14.6 | ||||||
| Kinetic symmetry | Unspecified | ||||||
| Discovered by | Josh Ball | ||||||
| Year of discovery | 2013 | ||||||
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Loafer is a c/7 orthogonal spaceship found by Josh Ball on February 17, 2013. Its name refers to its slow speed and loaf-pushing behaviour. Adam P. Goucher found an 18-glider synthesis for this spaceship on the day of its discovery, and Matthias Merzenich reduced this to 8 gliders the following day.[1] Two loafer guns were built on February 19th of the same year.[2]
Paul Tooke built a sawtooth, that uses loafer's ability to turn a middleweight spaceship into a loaf.[3]
Mike Playle found a stable loafer-to-Herschel conduit, apparently by means of the same search program (or its earlier version), that gave the world the snark a month and a half later.[4]
References
- ↑ Adam Goucher (March 10, 2013). "c/7 Orthogonal Spaceship". Retrieved on March 16, 2013.
- ↑ http://www.conwaylife.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1031#p7466
- ↑ Paul Tooke (February 22, 2013). "Re: c/7 orthogonal spaceships". Retrieved on October 2, 2013.
- ↑ Mike Playle (March 9, 2013). "Re: c/7 orthogonal spaceships". Retrieved on October 22, 2014.