Ecologist
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| Pattern type | Spaceship | ||||||||||
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| Number of cells | 53 | ||||||||||
| Bounding box | 27×18 | ||||||||||
| Direction | Orthogonal | ||||||||||
| Period | 20 | ||||||||||
| Mod | 20 | ||||||||||
| Speed | c/2 | ||||||||||
| Speed (unsimplified) | 10c/20 | ||||||||||
| Heat | 61.3 | ||||||||||
| Discovered by | Bill Gosper | ||||||||||
| Year of discovery | 1971 | ||||||||||
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The ecologist is a c/2 orthogonal spaceship with period 20 that was described in Lifeline Volume 3.[1] It consists of the classic puffer 2 with another lightweight spaceship added to suppress the debris.
See also
References
- ↑ Robert Wainwright (September 1971). Lifeline, vol 3, page 6.
External links
- Ecologist at the Life Lexicon
- 53P20H10V0.1 at Heinrich Koenig's Game of Life Object Catalogs
Categories:
- Patterns
- Spaceships with 53 cells
- Periodic objects with minimum population 53
- Patterns with 53 cells
- Patterns found by Bill Gosper
- Patterns found in 1971
- Patterns that can be constructed with 12 gliders
- Spaceships
- Spaceships with period 20
- Orthogonal spaceships
- Spaceships with speed c/2
- Spaceships with unsimplified speed 10c/20
- Spaceships with heat 61
- Spaceships with mod 20
- Smoking ships