Pre-pulsar spaceship

Pre-pulsar spaceship
x = 69, y = 13, rule = B3/S23 31bo5bo$30b3o3b3o4$2b2o5b2o5b2o5b2o19b2o5b2o5b2o5b2o$o3bo3bo2bo3bo2bo 3bo3bo15bo3bo3bo2bo3bo2bo3bo3bo$o3bobob3o5b3obobo3bo15bo3bobob3o5b3obo bo3bo$o5b2o2b3ob3o2b2o5bo15bo5b2o2b3ob3o2b2o5bo$2ob3o15b3ob2o15b2ob3o 15b3ob2o$o25bo15bo25bo$bo3bo15bo3bo17bo3bo15bo3bo$2bo2bo15bo2bo19bo2bo 15bo2bo! #C [[ THUMBSIZE 2 THEME 6 GRID GRIDMAJOR 0 SUPPRESS THUMBLAUNCH ]] #C [[ AUTOSTART ]] #C [[ GPS 5 ZOOM 7 TRACKLOOP 30 0 -1/5 ]]
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Pattern type	Spaceship
Number of cells	128
Bounding box	73 × 14
Direction	Orthogonal
Period	30 (mod: 30)
Speed	c/5 | 6c/30
Heat	131.5
Kinetic symmetry	Unspecified
Discovered by	David Bell
Year of discovery	1998
Rules Outer-totalistic rules B3/S23 – B3/S238 # of rules 21 = 2 Isotropic rules B3/S23-c – B3/S234c5jn6n7c8
Glider synthesis Fewest gliders 496† Catagolue-generated RLE synthesis †Can be constructed with 15 gliders using the reverse caber tosser universal constructor.
Pattern files Plaintext prepulsarspaceship.cells RLE prepulsarspaceship.rle
Identifiers apgcode xq30_yq232x232zug1hmgc865da808ad568cgmh1guybug1hmgc865da808ad568cgmh1guz124w6yb6w421yb124w6yb6w421 Pentadecathlon ID 128P30H6V0.1

Pre-pulsar spaceship (or PPS for short) is any of three different period-30 c/5 orthogonal spaceships in which a pre-pulsar is pushed by a pair of spiders. The back sparks of these spaceships can be used to perturb gliders in many different ways, allowing the easy construction of c/5 puffers.

The first pre-pulsar spaceship, the symmetric pre-pulsar spaceship (or SPPS for short, shown to the right) was found by David Bell in May 1998 and was based on the p15 pre-pulsar spaceship found by Noam Elkies in December 1997.

The asymmetric pre-pulsar spaceship (or APPS, shown below) was found by Alan Hensel, also in May 1998, based on a skewed version of the pre-pulsar.

The glide symmetric pre-pulsar spaceship (or GPPS, shown below) was also found by David Bell in May 1998. It is similar to the symmetric pre-pulsar spaceship but contains an extra T-tetromino between the spiders and is glide symmetric.

Martin Grant's 601-glider spider synthesis resulted in a 1212-glider synthesis for the symmetric pre-pulsar spaceship on March 8, 2019.

In June 1998, David Bell found reactions to convert between the symmetric and glide-symmetric forms of the p30 pre-pulsar spaceship.^{[citation needed]}

Gallery

x = 69, y = 15, rule = b3/s23 37bo31b$36b3o30b$31bo37b$30b3o36b2$44b2o5b2o5b2o5b2o2b$42bo3bo3bo2bo3b o2bo3bo3bo$2b2o5b2o5b2o5b2o17bo3bobob3o5b3obobo3bo$o3bo3bo2bo3bo2bo3bo 3bo15bo5b2o2b3ob3o2b2o5bo$o3bobob3o5b3obobo3bo15b2ob3o15b3ob2o$o5b2o2b 3ob3o2b2o5bo15bo25bo$2ob3o15b3ob2o16bo3bo15bo3bob$o25bo17bo2bo15bo2bo 2b$bo3bo15bo3bo43b$2bo2bo15bo2bo! #C [[ THUMBSIZE 2 THEME 6 GRID GRIDMAJOR 0 SUPPRESS THUMBLAUNCH ]] #C [[ THUMBSIZE 2 WIDTH 640 ZOOM 8 ]] The asymmetric pre-pulsar spaceship. (click above to open LifeViewer) RLE: here Plaintext: here

x = 69, y = 13, rule = b3/s23 31bo5bo31b$30b3o3b3o30b4$2b2o5b2o5b2o5b2o19b2o5b2o5b2o5b2o2b$o3bo3bo2b o3bo2bo3bo3bo15bo3bo3bo2bo3bo2bo3bo3bo$o3bobob3o5b3obobo3bo3b3o9bo3bob ob3o5b3obobo3bo$o5b2o2b3ob3o2b2o5bo4bo10bo5b2o2b3ob3o2b2o5bo$2ob3o15b 3ob2o15b2ob3o15b3ob2o$o25bo15bo25bo$bo3bo15bo3bo17bo3bo15bo3bob$2bo2bo 15bo2bo19bo2bo15bo2bo! #C [[ THUMBSIZE 2 THEME 6 GRID GRIDMAJOR 0 SUPPRESS THUMBLAUNCH ]] #C [[ THUMBSIZE 2 WIDTH 640 ZOOM 8 ]] The glide symmetric pre-pulsar spaceship. (click above to open LifeViewer) RLE: here Plaintext: here

External links

• Pre-pulsar spaceship at the Life Lexicon

• Symmetric pre-pulsar spaceship at Adam P. Goucher's Catagolue

• Asymmetric pre-pulsar spaceship at Adam P. Goucher's Catagolue (extended)

• Glide symmetric pre-pulsar spaceship at Adam P. Goucher's Catagolue

• 128P30H6V0.1 at Heinrich Koenig's Game of Life Object Catalogs