Wing

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This article is about the evolutionary sequence. For the extensible c/4 diagonal spaceship, see Wing (spaceship).
"Wing" can additionally refer to a protruding lateral section of any spaceship, such as a group of switch engines supporting one side of a Cordership.
Wing
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Pattern type Methuselah
Number of cells 8
Bounding box 4 × 4
MCPS 8
Lifespan 104 generations
Final population 9
L/I 13
F/I 1.1
F/L 0.087
L/MCPS 13
Static symmetry C1
Discovered by Unknown
Year of discovery Unknown

Wing is a common evolutionary sequence that stabilizes at generation 104 as a block and a glider. Its most common grandparent is traditionally referred to as block and glider, which is composed of two pre-blocks and has a lifespan of 106 generations. That pattern has a six-cell parent called nine, resembling an eater 1 with one tail cell missing. Nine can also be seen as a pre-block connected to a three-cell-long line.

Generation 104 of wing
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Evolution from nine (T=0), through block and glider (T=1), to wing (T=3)
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Uses

In still lifes

Nine is a part of several still lifes, some of which are shown in the table below:

Object Population Other part
Integralsign.png Integral sign 9 Preblock.png Pre-block
Tubwithnine.png Tub with nine (prodigal) 10 Tub.png Tub
Xs10 31eg8o.png Hook with nine (hooked integral) Prepreblock.png Hook
Cisboatwithnine.png Cis-boat with nine 11 Boat.png Boat
Transboatwithnine.png Trans-boat with nine
Longhookwithnine.png Long hook with nine Preprepreblock.png Long hook
Hungryhat.png Hungry hat Unnamed
Cisbargewithnine.png Cis-barge with nine 12 Barge.png Barge
Transbargewithnine.png Trans-barge with nine
Beehivewithnine.png Beehive with nine Beehive.png Beehive
Clawwithnine.png Claw with nine Claw.png Claw
Cisverylonghookwithnine.png Cis-very long hook with nine Pre4block.png Very long hook
Transverylonghookwithnine.png Trans-very long hook with nine
Twelveloop.png Twelve loop Unnamed

Tails can often be replaced with nines. When the resulting still life is able to perform a eater 1 catalysis using the added nine, the resulting still life is referred to as being "hungry".

In oscillators

A nine is hassled by two eater 1s in a period-4 oscillator, confused eaters.

Like other common evolutionary sequences, wings can be hassled in various ways, such as in the p25 wing and block hassler[note 1][note 2] and p128 wing shuttle.

A full list is located at Wing hasslers.

Some oscillators, even if they're not wing hasslers, produce wings, such as Charity's p16, Beluchenko's other p37, and one of the p43 honey farm hasslers. Generation 7 of wing produces dot sparks, which can be useful, as it makes the oscillator a sparker.

In conduits

A number of conduits have been found to produce or accept a wing (abbreviated W) with reasonable clearance, such as PF35W, a wing-to-LWSS converter and WFx46H. A WSW-3 conduit[note 3] can be made by eating the extra block using a block or eater 1.

Gallery

x = 4, y = 3, rule = B3/S23 2o$obo$2b2o! #C [[ THUMBSIZE 2 THEME 6 GRID GRIDMAJOR 0 SUPPRESS THUMBLAUNCH ]] #C [[ ZOOM 16 Y -4 AUTOSTART GPS 4 PAUSE 2 T 32 PAUSE 2 T 35 PAUSE 2 LOOP 36 ]]
Block and glider reappears 32 generations later shifted 3 cells right and 7 cells up only to be turned into a B-heptomino 3 generations later
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A pre-beehive hitting beehive reaction enters the wing sequence fairly late
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See also

Notes

  1. Catagoluep25 wing and block hassler
  2. An alternative version of this oscillator is shown in jslife with a different method of stabilization.[1] Nicolay Beluchenko found the simpler stabilization with two fumaroles later on.[2] However, it is unknown when or by whom this reaction was found.[3]
  3. Link to RLE: patterns/wswminus3.rle.

References

  1. Jason Summers' jslife pattern collection. Retrieved on November 9, 2021.
  2. Matthias Merzenich (April 18, 2018). "osc-supplement pattern collection". Retrieved on November 9, 2021.
  3. David Raucci (December 11, 2020). Updated oscillator stamp collection (was: Re: Golly suggestions) (discussion thread) at the ConwayLife.com forums

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