Wasp

	Wasp
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Pattern type	Spaceship
Number of cells	47
Bounding box	22×9
Direction	Orthogonal
Period	3
Mod	3
Speed	c/3
Speed (unsimplified)	c/3
Heat	42.0
Discovered by	David Bell
Year of discovery	1998
Rules
Outer-totalistic rules	B3/S23 – B38/S2378
Important rules	Conway Life
# of rules	23 = 8
Isotropic rules	B3-c/S2-n3-c – B2i34cew5cin6in7e8/S234c5aejnq6-ak78
Pattern files
Plaintext	wasp.cells
RLE	wasp.rle
Identifiers
apgcode	xq3_0keh2ze1k8z7th322az01hs5logzx1221
Pentadecathlon ID	47P3H1V0.1

Wasp is a c/3 orthogonal spaceship that was found by David Bell in March 1998. It produces a domino spark at the back and is useful for perturbing other objects. Its right side is the same as the right side of edge-repair spaceship 1.

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Generation 1 of wasp reveals its domino spark