Big glider
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| Pattern type | Spaceship | ||||||||
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| Number of cells | 68 | ||||||||
| Bounding box | 18 × 18 | ||||||||
| Direction | Diagonal | ||||||||
| Period | 4 (mod: 4) | ||||||||
| Speed | c/4 | c/4 | ||||||||
| Heat | 61.0 | ||||||||
| Kinetic symmetry | / | ||||||||
| Discovered by | Dean Hickerson | ||||||||
| Year of discovery | 1989 | ||||||||
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The big glider was found by Dean Hickerson in December 1989 and was the first known diagonal spaceship other than the glider. Two gliders can be temporarily seen at the front of the ship; these do not stay gliders but still move like them.
Robert Wainwright discovered some small tagalongs for this spaceship, including one that can be used to string an arbitrarily large number of big gliders together and append certain glider tagalongs.
Some small tagalongs (in green); the block in the center tagalong can be removed or replaced with tagalong parts of Canada goose or Orion 2
| Big glider tagalongs (click above to open LifeViewer) RLE: here Plaintext: here |
Two big gliders can pull a tagalong known as the glider emulator.
See also
External links
- Big glider at the Life Lexicon
- Big glider at Adam P. Goucher's Catagolue
- 68P4H1V1.5 at Heinrich Koenig's Game of Life Object Catalogs
Categories:
- Patterns
- Spaceships with 68 cells
- Periodic objects with minimum population 68
- Patterns with 68 cells
- Patterns found by Dean Hickerson
- Patterns found in 1989
- Spaceships
- Spaceships with period 4
- Diagonal spaceships
- Spaceships with speed c/4
- Spaceships with unsimplified speed c/4
- Spaceships with heat 61
- Spaceships with mod 4
- Spaceships with / symmetry