Lobster

Lobster
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Pattern type	Spaceship
Number of cells	83
Bounding box	26 × 26
Direction	Diagonal
Period	7
Mod	7
Speed	c/7
Speed (unsimplified)	c/7
Heat	81.7
Discovered by	Matthias Merzenich
Year of discovery	2011
Rules Outer-totalistic rules B3/S23 – B38/S2378 Important rules Conway Life # of rules 23 = 8 Isotropic rules B3/S23 – B2i35ei6ein7e8/S234ce5cky6-an78
Pattern files Plaintext lobster.cells RLE lobster.rle
Identifiers apgcode xq7_ggg0774wguez1130g06mgcc403ju4y1ooz03331oo31gy112w62ec0ac4zy213111igzy4cc0j6mzy831

Lobster is a c/7 diagonal spaceship that was discovered by Matthias Merzenich on August 19, 2011. It was the first c/7 diagonal spaceship to be found. It consists of two gliders pulling a tagalong-like object that then rephases them. It can be infinitely extended.

Lobster was voted Pattern of the Year for 2011 on the ConwayLife.com forums, tied with the fully universal Turing machine.

External links

• Lobster at the Life Lexicon
• Lobster at Adam P. Goucher's Catagolue