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 mirrored 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.

A decent number of very long ships, although not enough to be almost all, form from the right half of generation 7 of the following pattern, where generation 0 is a bakery predecessor with one cell moved to an adjacent location. The very long ship forms in generation 17. 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.

x = 7, y = 6, rule = B3/S23 b3o$o3bo$o4bo$o5bo$bo3bo$2b3o! #C [[ THUMBSIZE 2 THEME 6 GRID GRIDMAJOR 0 SUPPRESS THUMBLAUNCH ]] #C [[ GPS 12 THUMBSIZE 2 STOP 7 ]] (click above to open LifeViewer) RLE: here Plaintext: here

Glider synthesis

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

A 3-glider collision exists that produces a very long ship along with a lot of junk, formed via a glider hitting a bullet heptomino.

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