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 It is the second smallest known Cordership in terms of its minimum population of 134 cells, superseded by the 2-engine Cordership.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]
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Pattern type | Spaceship | ||||||||||
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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 | ||||||||||
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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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#N extensible 4-engine Cordership
#O Michael Simkin, 5 November 2014
#C http://www.conwaylife.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=14135#p14135
x = 302, y = 137, rule = B3/S23
28bo$27bobo$26b2ob2o$3b3o20b2ob2o123bo$2bo3bo18b3o125bobo$bo4bo18b3o3b
o12b2o106b2ob2o$o3bo20b3o4bo11b2o83b3o20b2ob2o$o2bob3o18b2o5bo94bo3bo
18b3o$o7bo17b3o98bo4bo18b3o3bo12b2o$2bo3bobo18b2o97bo3bo20b3o4bo11b2o$
2bo3bob2o18b2o96bo2bob3o18b2o5bo$4b3ob2o33b2o81bo7bo17b3o$20b2o106bo3b
obo18b2o$20b2o6bo14b3o6b2o74bo3bob2o18b2o$27b3o13bobo6b2o76b3ob2o33b2o
$26bo3bo115b2o$4b2o24b2o13bo100b2o6bo14b3o6b2o$4b2o23b2o13b2o107b3o13b
obo6b2o$5bo38b2o106bo3bo$130b2o24b2o13bo$5bo22b2o13b2o85b2o23b2o13b2o$
28b2o13b3o85bo38b2o$41b3o$3bo5b3o21b3o5bo89bo22b2o13b2o$3bo7bo142b2o
13b3o$3bo5bobo10b2o16b3o124b3o$9b2o10bo2bo15bo88bo5b3o21b3o5bo$20bo3bo
15b3o86bo7bo$22b2o35b2o68bo5bobo10b2o16b3o$59b2o74b2o10bo2bo15bo$16bo
129bo3bo15b3o$14b2o132b2o35b2o$8b2o2b2o5bo165b2o$8b2o4b2o126bo$18bo
121b2o$15b4o115b2o2b2o5bo$14bobo50b2o65b2o4b2o$13bo2b2obo47b2o75bo$14b
o4bo121b4o$15bo124bobo50b2o$16bo2bo119bo2b2obo47b2o$16b2o122bo4bo$141b
o$142bo2bo$75b2o65b2o$75b2o2$201b2o$201b2o4$83b2o$83b2o2$209b2o$209b2o
4$91b2o$91b2o2$217b2o$217b2o2$268bo$267bobo$99b2o165bo3bo$99b2o166bobo
$268bo14b3o$225b2o55bo3bo$225b2o41b4o10b3o2bo$267bo4bo9bo3bo$269bo13b
3o$266bo3bo2bo9b2o7b2o$107b2o157bob3obo19b2o$107b2o158b3obo2$233b2o$
233b2o50bo$282b5o$281bo$297bo$115b2o165bo3bo9bob2o$115b2o166b3o12b3o$
289b2o4b3o3bo$241b2o29b2o14bo2bo4b5o$241b2o29b2o13bo5bo5bo$286bo2b2o$
285b2ob2ob3o$114b3o142b3o15b2o6bo2bo$113bo3bo5b2o133bo17b4o5bob2o$112b
o4bo5b2o132bo4b2o11bo4bo5b2o$111bo3bo140bo3bo9bobobo2bo2b2o$111bo2bob
3o130b2o5bo2bo4bo4bo2bobo4b2o$111bo7bo129b2o5bo3bo3bo3bo4bo3b3o$113bo
3bobo137b2obob3o4bo4b2obo$113bo3bob2o139bo11bo$115b3ob2o140b4o6b2o$
263b2o$88bo6b2o185b3o$87bobo3bo3bo$86bo3bobo3b2o18bo140b2o$87bobo2bobo
b2o17bobo139b2o$88bo3bo2b2o17bo$92bo4bo21bo$93bo2bo10b2o5b2o2b2o$95bo
11b2o7bo$114b2obo$113bo3bo$112bo$111b2obob2o$111b2o3bo$112bo2b2o$113b
3o$102bo11bo$91b3o7bo2bo16bo$90bobob2o5bo3bo15bo$90bobob2o5bo3bo15bo$
90bo3bo5b2o3bo4b3o$91bobo7bo2bo4b2o2bo$92bo15bo3b2o$107bo2b3o$106bo2b
2o$106bo2bo$107bo2bo$95b2o13bo$95b2o11bobo2$106bo$104bob2o$103bo2b2o$
104b2obo$104b2ob2o$105bobo$106bo!
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Two versions of Michael Simkin's extensible 4-engine Cordership (click above to open LifeViewer) RLE: here Plaintext: here |
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References
- Dave Greene (August 10, 2005). "New Sawtooth Patterns". Retrieved on April 21, 2017.
- Michael Simkin (November 5, 2014). "Four engine extendable Cordership". Retrieved on April 21, 2017.
- Adam P. Goucher (January 22, 2018). "Re: Stable signal converters". Retrieved on September 15, 201.