Hammerhead

Hammerhead
x = 18, y = 16, rule = B3/S23 5o$o4bo7b2o$o11b2ob3o$bo9b2ob4o$3b2o3b2ob2o2b2o$5bo4bo2bo$6bobobobo$7b o$7bo$6bobobobo$5bo4bo2bo$3b2o3b2ob2o2b2o$bo9b2ob4o$o11b2ob3o$o4bo7b2o $5o! #C [[ THUMBSIZE 2 THEME 6 GRID GRIDMAJOR 0 SUPPRESS THUMBLAUNCH ]] #C [[ AUTOSTART ]] #C [[ GPS 2 ZOOM 10 TRACKLOOP 4 -1/2 0 ]]
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Pattern type	Spaceship
Number of cells	76
Bounding box	18×16
Direction	Orthogonal
Period	4
Mod	4
Speed	c/2
Speed (unsimplified)	2c/4
Heat	90.0
Discovered by	Unknown
Year of discovery	Unknown
Rules Outer-totalistic rules B3/S23 – B38/S23 Important rules Conway Life # of rules 21 = 2 Isotropic rules B3-ky/S23-k – B2n34city5ijry6eik7e8/S234cejz5cenr6ein7e
Pattern files Plaintext hammerhead.cells RLE hammerhead.rle
Identifiers apgcode xq4_osssogy2aghgiszy2fq240m6zy2ub840dcz377731y2a1h197

Hammerhead is an orthogonal c/2 spaceship. Alternatively, hammerhead may refer to just the front half of this spaceship (in particular the leftmost nine columns of the form shown below), which can be extended to a c/2 spaceship in a variety of ways.

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Hammerhead may refer just to the leftmost 9 columns of generation 3, shown here in green

External links

• Hammerhead at the Life Lexicon

• Hammerhead at Adam P. Goucher's Catagolue