7-engine Cordership
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| Pattern type | Cordership Spaceship | ||||||||||
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| Number of cells | 180 | ||||||||||
| Bounding box | 71×65 | ||||||||||
| Direction | Diagonal | ||||||||||
| Period | 96 | ||||||||||
| Speed | c/12 | ||||||||||
| Heat | 196.3 | ||||||||||
| Discovered by | Dean Hickerson | ||||||||||
| Year of discovery | 1993 | ||||||||||
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The 7-engine Cordership is a diagonal spaceship that was discovered by Dean Hickerson on August 23, 1993. Until the discovery of the 6-engine Cordership almost five years later, it was the Cordership that used the fewest known possible switch engines. Corderships that use as few as 3 engines are now known.
This particular Cordership can be used to reflect gliders in a variety of ways. The image below shows two gliders that will be turned counterclockwise by 90 degrees (in red), a glider that will be reflected 180 degrees (in green), and a glider that will be turned into a southbound lightweight spaceship (in blue).[1] For another method of performing a 180-degree glider reflection using the 7-engine Cordership, see glider loop.
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- 7-engine Cordership at the Life Pattern Catalog