OCA:HighLife/Bomber

For other uses of the term 'bomber', see Bomber (disambiguation).

The bomber is a replicator-based spaceship in HighLife that occurs naturally and was discovered by Nathan Thompson. It can be formed by placing a blinker in the path of the replicator as shown below. The spaceship itself has a period 48 and travels diagonally at speed c/6. The blinker reacts with one of the spawned replicators such that it destroys itself and the spawned replicator while leaving another blinker on the other side of the spaceship. It is thus a glide symmetric spaceship with mod equal to 24. It is the 3rd most common spaceship in HighLife, being slightly more common than the middleweight spaceship.

x = 9, y = 14, rule = B36/S23 bo$bo$bo3$3bo$2b2o$bobo$3o2$6b3o$5bobo$5b2o$5bo! #C [[ THUMBSIZE 2 THEME 6 GRID GRIDMAJOR 0 SUPPRESS THUMBLAUNCH ]] #C [[ HEIGHT 500 THUMBSIZE 2 ZOOM 18 GRID OFF GPS 6 AUTOSTART TRACKLOOP 48 1/6 1/6 ]]

The bomber (click above to open LifeViewer) RLE: here Plaintext: here Catagolue: here

x = 10, y = 6, rule = B36/S23 b3o6b$o9b$o9b$o8bo$9bo$9bo! #C [[ THUMBSIZE 2 THEME 6 GRID GRIDMAJOR 0 SUPPRESS THUMBLAUNCH ]] #C [[ HEIGHT 500 THUMBSIZE 2 ZOOM 24 ]]

A 9-cell predecessor of the bomber (click above to open LifeViewer) RLE: here Plaintext: here