Centipede
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| Centipede | |||||||
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| Pattern type | Spaceship | ||||||
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| Number of cells | 620901 | ||||||
| Bounding box | 11652 × 126714 | ||||||
| Direction | Orthogonal | ||||||
| Period | 240 | ||||||
| Mod | 240 | ||||||
| Speed | 31c/240 | 31c/240 | ||||||
| Heat | 402634.1 | ||||||
| Discovered by | Chris Cain | ||||||
| Year of discovery | 2014 | ||||||
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The centipede is a 31c/240 spaceship constructed by Chris Cain later on the same day as the shield bug.[1] It actually reuses most of shield bug's circuitry despite having a quite different shape. Its smaller size is due to a more compact front-end that was built by Cain a day earlier.
It is the third smallest known 31c/240 spaceship after the caterloopillar's 31c/240 variant, and remained the smallest 31c/240 spaceship making use of the 31c/240 reaction (and therefore the smallest period-240 31c/240 spaceship) until the development of the silverfish.
The centipede ranked second place in the Pattern of the Year 2014 competition in a belated vote held on the ConwayLife.com forums, behind the waterbear.[2]
See also
References
- ↑ Chris Cain (September 4, 2014). Re: 31c/240 caterpillar working notes (discussion thread) at the ConwayLife.com forums
- ↑ 77topaz (March 7, 2018). Re: Belated Pattern of the Year 2014 competition: Voting (discussion thread) at the ConwayLife.com forums
External links
- Centipede at the Life Lexicon
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- Patterns with between 100,000 and 999,999 cells
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- Outer-totalistically endemic patterns
- Spaceships
- Spaceships with period 240
- Orthogonal spaceships
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