4-engine Cordership

The 4-engine Cordership is a c/12 diagonal spaceship that was discovered by David Bell on July 9, 2005. It is composed of four switch engines. It is the second smallest known Cordership in terms of its minimum population of 134 cells, superseded by the 2-engine Cordership. David Bell used this spaceship to create a small sawtooth, sawtooth 260.[1]

4-engine Cordership
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Pattern type Spaceship
Family Cordership
Number of cells 134
Bounding box 76×76
Direction Diagonal
Period 96
Mod 96
Speed c/12
Speed (unsimplified) 8c/96
Heat 178.0
Discovered by David Bell
Year of discovery 2005

A slight modification of this Cordership that is asymmetric, with a minimum population of 136 cells, is also quite well-known and displayed below.

In November 2014 Michael Simkin discovered an alternate 4-engine Cordership, with temporally independent front and back halves -- the last two switch engines can be delayed by any number of ticks relative to the front.[2] The front and back halves of the Cordership can be produced by identical glider constructions. These features were used to construct the infinite Corderships gun.[3]

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Two versions of Michael Simkin's extensible 4-engine Cordership
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The 136-cell variant of the 4-engine Cordership.
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gollark: This was useful once when a draconic reactor explosion accidentally destroyed the entire spawn area on one server I was on, but the storage stuff had a dedicated spatial IO unit and could be sent to a backup site in the End.
gollark: GTech™ standard policy is to have the main ME controller/storage/crafting CPU stuff in one area and then run a bunch of wires out for machinery.
gollark: You get more side-product outputs for slightly more power/processing time.
gollark: Consider auxiliary sieves though. They're basically free apart from needing somewhat more pulverizers and power.
gollark: I guess if you're not really bottlenecked by ore input it's fine either way.

See also

References
  1. Dave Greene (August 10, 2005). "New Sawtooth Patterns". Retrieved on April 21, 2017.
  2. Michael Simkin (November 5, 2014). "Four engine extendable Cordership". Retrieved on April 21, 2017.
  3. Adam P. Goucher (January 22, 2018). "Re: Stable signal converters". Retrieved on September 15, 201.
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