Pufferfish
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Pufferfish | |||||||
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Pattern type | Puffer | ||||||
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Number of cells | 44 | ||||||
Bounding box | 15 × 12 | ||||||
Direction | Orthogonal | ||||||
Period | 12 | ||||||
Speed | c/2 | ||||||
Discovered by | Richard Schank | ||||||
Year of discovery | 2014 | ||||||
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Pufferfish is a puffer discovered by Richard Schank in 2014. Being found in a symmetric soup, the puffer is almost natural.[1] It consists of a pair of b-heptominos whose debris is stabilised by a backend.
It is the first known c/2 object that doesn't have any parts of periods 2 or 4.
On December 27, 2014 Ivan Fomichev found a non-trivial (dependent) c/2 fuse of period 36 for pufferfish's exhaust, that enabled him to assemble the first c/2 spaceship and the first c/2 rake, that had no parts of periods 2 or 4.[2]
References
- ↑ Richard Schank (November 24, 2014). "Re: Soup search results". Retrieved on November 25, 2014.
- ↑ Ivan Fomichev (December 27, 2014). "Pufferfish and companions". Retrieved on December 28, 2014.