Parallel HBK
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Pattern type | Spaceship | ||||||
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Number of cells | 132945 | ||||||
Bounding box | 31080 × 32771 | ||||||
Direction | slope 2 | ||||||
Period | 245912 | ||||||
Mod | Unknown | ||||||
Speed | (6,3)c/245912 | Unknown | ||||||
Heat | Unknown | ||||||
Discovered by | Chris Cain | ||||||
Year of discovery | 2014 | ||||||
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Parallel half-baked knightships were proposed before the first half-baked knightship appeared on the scene, although the actual construction was completed several days later by Chris Cain. This design allows for several slow-salvo construction recipes to be completed in parallel, whereas the first half-baked knightship did all constructions serially.
There are several significant differences in design between the original half-baked knightship and Chris Cain's smaller version. The slow-salvo constructions are done serially in Goucher's design, and an extra glider is used to suppress the salvo that triggers the half-bakery trails.[1]
Consequently, Cain's parallel knightship is much smaller than Goucher's original knightship, in terms of the population count, bounding box and period. It had also been the smallest known example of an oblique spaceship in Conway's Game of Life in terms of the bounding box before discovery of the waterbear later in the same year.
On December 31, 2014 Michael Simkin found a glider synthesis and allegedly built a gun for this spaceship, but nobody has yet run the Golly script that assembles the gun till the end. The approximate population of the gun would be around 2,000,000,000 cells.
References
- ↑ Chris Cain (July 17, 2014). "Re: Half-bakery reaction with glider". Retrieved on July 18, 2014.
See also
- Patterns
- Spaceships with between 100,000 and 999,999 cells
- Periodic objects with minimum population between 100,000 and 999,999
- Patterns with between 100,000 and 999,999 cells
- Patterns found by Chris Cain
- Patterns found in 2014
- Patterns that can be constructed with 1,000 or more gliders
- Outer-totalistically endemic patterns
- Spaceships
- Spaceships with period 245912
- Slope 2 spaceships
- Spaceships with speed (6,3)c/245912
- Patterns found by Dave Greene
- Patterns found by Ivan Fomichev
- Oblique spaceships