Snail
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| Pattern type | Spaceship | ||||||||
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| Number of cells | 128 | ||||||||
| Bounding box | 38 × 21 | ||||||||
| Direction | Orthogonal | ||||||||
| Period | 5 (mod: 5) | ||||||||
| Speed | c/5 | c/5 | ||||||||
| Heat | 115.2 | ||||||||
| Kinetic symmetry | -c | ||||||||
| Discovered by | Tim Coe | ||||||||
| Year of discovery | 1996 | ||||||||
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Snail is a c/5 orthogonal spaceship that was discovered by Tim Coe on January 31, 1996.[1] It was the first c/5 orthogonal spaceship to be found and was the slowest known orthogonal spaceship until dragon was found in 2000.
See also
References
- ↑ p5ss.life at Paul Callahan's Page of Conway's Life Miscellany
External links
- Snail at the Life Lexicon
- 128P5H1V0.1 at Heinrich Koenig's Game of Life Object Catalogs
Categories:
- Patterns
- Spaceships with between 120 and 129 cells
- Periodic objects with minimum population between 120 and 129
- Patterns with between 120 and 129 cells
- Patterns found by Tim Coe
- Patterns found in 1996
- Spaceships
- Spaceships with period 5
- Orthogonal spaceships
- Spaceships with speed c/5
- Spaceships with unsimplified speed c/5
- Spaceships with heat between 110 and 119
- Spaceships with mod 5
- Spaceships with -c symmetry