SMOS
A SMOS (Spaceship Made Of Spaceships) is a spaceship in a cellular automaton, consisting of multiple other spaceships colliding with each other, causing a reaction to place on where all of the spaceships are regenerated separately, but with a displacement value. Such spaceship conglomerations can be, on rare occasions, SMOS'ed again together to create a SMOSMOS (Spaceship Made of Spaceships Made of Spaceships). The ship used in the SMOS must also work as a normal spaceship by itself.
Example
The T-tetromino, which is a spaceship in tlife;
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bo$obo2$3o!
#C [[ THUMBSIZE 2 THEME 6 GRID GRIDMAJOR 0 SUPPRESS THUMBLAUNCH ]]
#C [[ THEME 6 GRID GRIDMAJOR 0 GPS 4 AUTOSTART THUMBLAUNCH THUMBSIZE 2 TRACKLOOP 5 0 -1/5 ]]<html></code></div></div><canvas width="200" height="300" style="margin-left:1px;"><noscript></html> Please enable Javascript to view this LifeViewer. <html></noscript></canvas></div></html> |
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Can be spaceship in a lot of other non-totalistic rules, and thus can be used to create a SMOS:
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obo$o2bo$obo2$6bo$5bobo2$5b3o!
#C [[ THUMBSIZE 2 THEME 6 GRID GRIDMAJOR 0 SUPPRESS THUMBLAUNCH ]]
#C [[ THEME 6 GRID GRIDMAJOR 0 GPS 8 AUTOSTART THUMBLAUNCH THUMBSIZE 2 TRACKLOOP 18 -1/-18 -1/18 ]]<html></code></div></div><canvas width="200" height="300" style="margin-left:1px;"><noscript></html> Please enable Javascript to view this LifeViewer. <html></noscript></canvas></div></html> |
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Which can also be colliding as such in the specific rule to generate a SMOSMOS:
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5b3o2$5bobo$6bo2$obo$o2bo$obo7$obo$o2bo$obo2$6bo$5bobo2$5b3o!
#C [[ THUMBSIZE 2 THEME 6 GRID GRIDMAJOR 0 SUPPRESS THUMBLAUNCH ]]
#C [[ THEME 6 GRID GRIDMAJOR 0 GPS 16 AUTOSTART THUMBLAUNCH THUMBSIZE 2 TRACKLOOP 92 -6/-92 -0 ]]<html></code></div></div><canvas width="200" height="300" style="margin-left:1px;"><noscript></html> Please enable Javascript to view this LifeViewer. <html></noscript></canvas></div></html> |
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Stricter Definition of SMOS
A stricter definition of SMOS requires the ships used in the SMOS to be allowed to go through 1 full oscillation cycle before interacting with the other.
External links
- Spaceships made up of other spaceships (SMOS) (discussion thread) at the ConwayLife.com forums