Mosquito 3

Mosquito 3 is a breeder and 75-cell quadratic growth pattern that was found by Nick Gotts in October 1998. At the time of its discovery, it was the smallest known pattern exhibiting superlinear growth (passing the former record holder mosquito 2), but it was surpassed by mosquito 4 a few days later.

Mosquito 3
Pattern type Miscellaneous
Number of cells 75
Bounding box 2754×650
Discovered by Nick Gotts
Year of discovery 1998

Its size reduction from mosquito 2 comes in part from it having one fewer lightweight spaceship. It is somewhat different from the earlier mosquitos in that the switch engines it makes are glider-producing rather than block-laying.

Generation 20,000 of mosquito 3
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