Block-laying switch engine
The block-laying switch engine (or block-making switch engine) is a puffer that was found by Charles Corderman. It consists of a switch engine reacting with blocks to create an infinite number of new blocks (eight new blocks every 288 generations).
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Pattern type | Puffer | ||||||||
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Number of cells | 43 | ||||||||
Bounding box | 29×28 | ||||||||
Frequency class | 19.6 | ||||||||
Direction | Diagonal | ||||||||
Period | 288 | ||||||||
Speed | c/12 | ||||||||
Discovered by | Charles Corderman | ||||||||
Year of discovery | 1971 | ||||||||
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Because of its easy construction (see the predecessor below), it has appeared in some superlinear growth patterns including mosquito 1 and mosquito 2.[1]
Commonness
The block-laying switch engine is the sixty-fourth most common object on Adam P. Goucher's Catagolue. It is the most common naturally-occurring pattern that exhibits infinite growth, being more common than the glider-producing switch engine.[2]
Image gallery
gollark: We can run another in a week!
gollark: 2 minutes; anyone with dragons to breed please prepare to do so.
gollark: I can rereschedule it if someone needs more time to prepare.
gollark: 2m30 or so to the new rescheduled time.
gollark: Revised countdown: https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown/to?iso=20180717T1740&p0=136&msg=APDump+Resecheduled&font=serif
References
- "Mosquito 1". The Life Lexicon. Stephen Silver. Retrieved on June 1, 2009.
- Adam P. Goucher. "Statistics". Catagolue. Retrieved on June 24, 2016.
External links
- Stabilized switch engine at the Life Lexicon
- Single switch engine puffer trains at the Life Objects Catalog
- Block-laying switch engine at Adam P. Goucher's Catagolue (linear growth)
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