Wickstretcher 1

Wickstretcher 1
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Pattern type	Wickstretcher
Number of cells	176
Bounding box	49×16
Direction	Orthogonal
Period	5
Speed	c/4
Discovered by	Hartmut Holzwart Dean Hickerson
Year of discovery	1992
Rules Outer-totalistic rules B3/S23 – B38/S238 Important rules Conway Life # of rules 22 = 4 Isotropic rules B3/S23 – B36cn7c8/S234ce5aky6in8
Pattern files Plaintext wickstretcher1.cells RLE wickstretcher1.rle

Wickstretcher 1 is the first explicitly constructed wickstretcher. Its front end was constructed by Hartmut Holzwart and its back end was constructed by Dean Hickerson. It was found in October 1992. On November 25, 2003 Paul Tooke found a slightly smaller antstretcher.

It works by having its front end stretch ants at a speed of c/4 and its back end stabilize the ants. Its back end can also be seen stabilizing ants in electric fence.

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A slightly smaller wickstretcher found by Paul Tooke RLE: here

External links

• Wickstretcher 1 at the Life Lexicon