Blinker puffer 1
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Pattern type | Puffer | ||||||||||
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Number of cells | 37 | ||||||||||
Bounding box | 9×18 | ||||||||||
Direction | Orthogonal | ||||||||||
Period | 8 | ||||||||||
Speed | c/2 | ||||||||||
Discovered by | Robert Wainwright | ||||||||||
Year of discovery | 1984 | ||||||||||
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Blinker puffer 1 was the first blinker puffer to be found, and was discovered by Robert Wainwright in 1984.[1] It consists of an unstable xWSS-like pattern being escorted by a middleweight spaceship and a heavyweight spaceship. The blinkers that it outputs can be burned cleanly by attaching a blinker fuse to the end of it, a technique that is used in the construction of moving sawtooth, sawtooth 1163, slow puffer 1 and slow puffer 2.
It produces blinkers of the same spacing as those produced by blinker puffer 2, so a blinker fuse can similarly be used with that puffer.
A symmetric version of this puffer appeared semi-naturally in November 2016.[2]
See also
References
- ↑ Jason Summers' jslife pattern collection. Retrieved on March 8, 2020.
- ↑ yootaa (November 7, 2016). Re: Soup search results (discussion thread) at the ConwayLife.com forums
External links
- Blinker puffer 1 at the Life Lexicon
- Blinker puffer 1 (symmetric version) at Adam P. Goucher's Catagolue (linear growth)