Very long ship

Very long ship
x = 5, y = 5, rule = B3/S23 3b2o$2bobo$bobo$obo$2o! #C [[ THUMBSIZE 2 THEME 6 GRID GRIDMAJOR 0 SUPPRESS THUMBLAUNCH ]] #C [[ THUMBSIZE 3 ZOOM 21 HEIGHT 400 SUPPRESS ]] #C [[ THUMBSIZE 2 HEIGHT 480 ]]
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Pattern type	Strict still life
Number of cells	10
Bounding box	5 × 5
Frequency class	15.6
Static symmetry	Unspecified
Discovered by	Unknown
Year of discovery	Unknown
Rules Outer-totalistic rules B/S23 – B3678/S012345678 # of rules 211 = 2048 Isotropic rules B/S2e3cn – B1e2-ae34-e5-c678/S012345678
Glider synthesis Fewest gliders 4 Catagolue-generated RLE synthesis Uploaded synthesis RLE verylongship_synth.rle
Pattern files Plaintext verylongship.cells RLE verylongship.rle
Identifiers apgcode xs10_35ako Niemiec ID 10.2 Pentadecathlon ID 10.7

Very long ship (or long long ship) is the long long version of the ship.

Commonness

It is the twenty-ninth most common still life in Achim Flammenkamp's census, being less common than tub with tail but more common than table and table. It is also the thirty-fourth most common object on Adam P. Goucher's Catagolue.

It is about one-fifth as common as the long ship but almost 2,000 times as common as the long^3 ship.

b3o$o3bo$o4bo$o5bo$bo3bo$2b3o! #C [[ THUMBSIZE 2 THEME 6 GRID GRIDMAJOR 0 SUPPRESS THUMBLAUNCH ]] #C [[ GPS 12 THUMBSIZE 2 STOP 7 ]] A decent number of very long ships, although not enough to be almost all, form from the right half of generation 7 of this pattern, where generation 0 is a bakery predecessor with one cell moved to an adjacent location. Some of them go through the sequence shown here, while others reach generation 7 in a different way. Because this is a common predecessor, the very long ship is often accompanied by two nearby boats. (click above to open LifeViewer)

Synthesis

On March 28, 2007 Dean Hickerson found a 4-glider synthesis of this still life.

External links

• Long long ship at the Life Lexicon

• Very long ship at Adam P. Goucher's Catagolue

• The 25 ten-bit still-lifes at Mark D. Niemiec's Life Page