Middleweight spaceship
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| Middleweight Spaceship | |||||||
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| Pattern type | Spaceship | ||||||
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| Number of cells | 11 | ||||||
| Bounding box | 6 × 5 | ||||||
| Direction | Orthogonal | ||||||
| Period | 4 (mod: Unknown) | ||||||
| Speed | c/2 | Unknown | ||||||
| Heat | 15 | ||||||
| Kinetic symmetry | Unspecified | ||||||
| Discovered by | John Conway | ||||||
| Year of discovery | 1970 | ||||||
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The middleweight spaceship (or MWSS for short) is the third most common spaceship (after the glider and lightweight spaceship). It occurs about one fourth as commonly as the LWSS.[1] It was found by John Conway in 1970 and travels at c/2 orthogonally. It can support various non-standard components, such as pushalong 1. It appears in the methuselah 1398M.
See also
References
- ↑ "Spontaneous appeared Spaceships out of Random Dust". Achim Flammenkamp (December 9, 1995). Retrieved on August 18, 2011.
External links
- Middleweight spaceship at the Life Lexicon
Categories:
- Patterns
- Spaceships with 11 cells
- Periodic objects with minimum population 11
- Patterns with 11 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 15
- Glide symmetric spaceships