Dragon

Dragon
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Pattern type	Spaceship
Number of cells	102
Bounding box	29×18
Direction	Orthogonal
Period	6
Mod	6
Speed	c/6
Speed (unsimplified)	c/6
Heat	97.3
Discovered by	Paul Tooke
Year of discovery	2000
Rules Outer-totalistic rules B3/S23 – B378/S238 Important rules Conway Life # of rules 23 = 8 Isotropic rules B3/S23-cky – B34e5cn6cen78/S234ekw5eky6-an7e8
Pattern files Plaintext dragon.cells RLE dragon.rle
Identifiers apgcode xq6_03m0m3y03m0m3zw3gn3aaaa3ng3zwu97y279uz22qggy2ggq22zxq03q22q30qzxdidy0did Pentadecathlon ID 102P6H1V0.1 Eppstein ID 18788

Dragon is an orthogonal c/6 spaceship that was discovered by Paul Tooke in April 2000. It was the first c/6 spaceship to be found. The spaceship functions by pushing two beehives forward. For almost six years all other known c/6 spaceships were flotillae involving toads and at least two dragons until Tooke found 274P6H1V0 in March 2006. It was the smallest known c/6 orthogonal spaceship until the discovery of 56P6H1V0 in 2009.

Image gallery

Three dragons pulling two toads (in green) as flotillae Download RLE: click here

Tagalongs

Dragon has sparks that can support tagalongs, that are shown below. The left one has the same frontend as a half of 56P6H1V0. The frontend of the right one reminds 114P6H1V0 and can in turn support its pushalongs.

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See also

• 114P6H1V0

External links

• Dragon at the Life Lexicon

• The Dragon (glider 18788) at David Eppstein's Glider Database

• Dragon at Adam P. Goucher's Catagolue

• 102P6H1V0.1 at Heinrich Koenig's Game of Life Object Catalogs