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| Pattern type | Cordership Spaceship | ||||||
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| Number of cells | 149 | ||||||
| Bounding box | 58 × 65 | ||||||
| Direction | Diagonal | ||||||
| Period | 96 | ||||||
| Mod | Unknown | ||||||
| Speed | c/12 | Unknown | ||||||
| Heat | 156.1 | ||||||
| Discovered by | Paul Tooke | ||||||
| Year of discovery | 2004 | ||||||
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The 3-engine Cordership is a diagonal c/12 spaceship that was discovered by Paul Tooke on January 12, 2004. It is the Cordership that uses the fewest number of known possible switch engines, though the 4-engine Cordership is smaller in terms of minimum population. David Bell discovered in 2005 that it can be used to turn a lightweight spaceship 90 degrees as shown below.[1] It can be constructed with only 15 gliders, and Tooke created a gun for this spaceship only a week after its original construction (see 3-engine Cordership gun).
The 3-engine Cordership can easily be destroyed by three eater 2s and four blocks, as shown below. This cleanup reaction was found by Jason Summers.
Incremental construction
Dave Greene discovered a glider synthesis for upgrading a switch engine to a wing, which can be repeated to form the complete Cordership. Adam P. Goucher then built a Herschel conduit to convert a glider into a 3-engine Cordership.[2]
Image gallery
See also
References
- ↑ "New Compact Corderships". Dave Greene (June 18, 2005). Retrieved on June 10, 2009.
- ↑ "First complete glider-to-Cordership converter". Dave Greene (February 7, 2009). Retrieved on June 15, 2009.
- Patterns
- Spaceships with between 140 and 149 cells
- Periodic objects with minimum population between 140 and 149
- Patterns with between 140 and 149 cells
- Patterns found by Paul Tooke
- Patterns found in 2004
- Patterns that can be constructed with 15 gliders
- Spaceships
- Corderships
- Spaceships with period 96
- Diagonal spaceships
- Spaceships with speed c/12
- Spaceships with heat between 150 and 159