V spark
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| Pattern type | Spark | ||||||||
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| Number of cells | 3 | ||||||||
| Bounding box | 3 × 2 | ||||||||
| Static symmetry | Unspecified | ||||||||
| Discovered by | Unknown | ||||||||
| Year of discovery | Unknown | ||||||||
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A V spark is a common triplet spark, produced most notably by oscillators such as the pentadecathlon, twin bees shuttle, and the phi spark (e.g., in Tanner's p46).
The spark can convert a pre-block or block into a glider as shown below; an example application is new gun 2. It can also turn a glider into a block, so two V sparks can make a reflector. The simplest example of this mechanism is the PD-pair reflector.
| V spark converting a pre-block into a glider (click above to open LifeViewer) RLE: here Plaintext: here |
External links
- V spark at the Life Lexicon