Shield bug
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| Shield bug | |||||||
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| Pattern type | Spaceship | ||||||
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| Number of cells | 3600626 | ||||||
| Bounding box | 934852 × 290482 | ||||||
| Direction | Orthogonal | ||||||
| Period | 240 (mod: 240) | ||||||
| Speed | 31c/240 | 31c/240 | ||||||
| Heat | 2825501.4 | ||||||
| Kinetic symmetry | Unspecified | ||||||
| Discovered by | Dave Greene | ||||||
| Year of discovery | 2014 | ||||||
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The shield bug is the first and largest 31c/240 orthogonal spaceship, completed by Dave Greene on September 4, 2014.[1] Components for the spaceship were found by Dave and many other contributors, including Kiho Park, Chris Cain, Ivan Fomichev and Adam P. Goucher.
The name is a reference to the large kite-shaped area near the front; the entire spaceship was originally intended to have roughly the same shape.
See also
References
- ↑ Dave Greene (September 4, 2014). Re: 31c/240 caterpillar working notes (discussion thread) at the ConwayLife.com forums
External links
- Shield bug at the Life Lexicon
Categories:
- Patterns
- Spaceships with between 1,000,000 and 9,999,999 cells
- Periodic objects with minimum population between 1,000,000 and 9,999,999
- Patterns with between 1,000,000 and 9,999,999 cells
- Patterns found by Dave Greene
- Patterns found in 2014
- Outer-totalistically endemic patterns
- Spaceships
- Spaceships with period 240
- Orthogonal spaceships
- Spaceships with speed 31c/240
- Spaceships with unsimplified speed 31c/240
- Spaceships with heat between 1,000,000 and 9,999,999
- Spaceships with mod 240
- Engineered spaceships