Schick engine

Schick engine
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Pattern type	Tagalong Spaceship
Number of cells	39
Bounding box	20×11
Direction	Orthogonal
Period	12
Mod	12
Speed	c/2
Speed (unsimplified)	6c/12
Heat	43.2
Discovered by	Paul Schick
Year of discovery	1972
Rules Outer-totalistic rules B3/S23 only Important rules Conway Life # of rules 20 = 1 Isotropic rules B3-cq/S23-c – B34ekqyz5jknqr6-ci/S234cejkty5aekr6ae7c
Glider synthesis Fewest gliders 10 Catagolue-generated RLE schickengine_synth.rle Uploaded synthesis RLE schickengine_synth.rle
Pattern files Plaintext schickengine.cells RLE schickengine.rle
Identifiers apgcode xq12_fh1i0i1hfzw8sms8zxfjf Pentadecathlon ID 39P12H6V0.1 Eppstein ID 13374

Schick engine (or Schick ship) is an orthogonal c/2 spaceship that was found by Paul Schick in 1972. Alternatively, it may refer just to the tagalong (displayed in green) that is attached to the back of the two lightweight spaceships. The tagalong may also be attached to the back of two middleweight spaceships, two heavyweight spaceships, or a lightweight spaceship and a heavyweight spaceship.

Its eleven-cell rear spark can be perturbed by other c/2 spaceships to form a variety of puffers and thus it is a puffer engine.

The Schick engine first appeared naturally on 12th February 2019, having previously emerged (along with its middleweight and heavyweight variants) from symmetric soups on Catagolue.

Gallery

Tagalong in green

See also

• Big A
• Blinker ship 1
• Crown
• List of common spaceships

External links

• Schick engine at the Life Lexicon

• The Schick Engine (glider 13374) at David Eppstein's Glider Database

• 39P12H6V0.1 at Heinrich Koenig's Game of Life Object Catalogs

Catagolue

• Lightweight Schick engine at Adam P. Goucher's Catagolue

• Middleweight Schick engine at Adam P. Goucher's Catagolue

• Heavyweight Schick engine at Adam P. Goucher's Catagolue

• Asymmetric Schick engine at Adam P. Goucher's Catagolue