Titanic toroidal traveler
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| Titanic toroidal traveler | |||||||
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| Pattern type | Superstring | ||||||
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| Bounding box | ∞ × 2 | ||||||
| Discovered by | Robert Wainwright | ||||||
| Year of discovery | 1971 | ||||||
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Titanic toroidal traveler is a superstring with a 9-cell repeating segment that was first described in Lifeline Volume 4. The front part repeats as a period 16 lightspeed wave, but the detached back part is quite unpredictable. The unpredictable part is based on the pre-pulsar and is replicator-like in its behaviour, and advances at 7c/40.
A similar situation arises when the moving part of the twin bees shuttle is iterated on a cylinder of width 12, except that the pattern replicates in both directions and advances at 10c/20.