Turtle
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Pattern type | Spaceship | ||||||||||
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Number of cells | 44 | ||||||||||
Bounding box | 13×12 | ||||||||||
Direction | Orthogonal | ||||||||||
Period | 3 | ||||||||||
Mod | 3 | ||||||||||
Speed | c/3 | ||||||||||
Speed (unsimplified) | c/3 | ||||||||||
Heat | 56 | ||||||||||
Discovered by | Dean Hickerson | ||||||||||
Year of discovery | 1989 | ||||||||||
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Turtle is an c/3 orthogonal spaceship found by Dean Hickerson in August 1989. It is one of the only non-standard spaceships that also works in the HighLife rule. The domino spark that the turtle produces at its back was essential in the creation of the first sawtooth pattern, sawtooth 1212.
On December 3, 2020, Goldtiger997 posted a final step for a glider synthesis of this spaceship.[1] The following day, the same user found a synthesis for the final base constellation, giving a 241-glider synthesis of the spaceship.[2]
Tagalong
In April 1992, David Bell found an extensible tagalong for the turtle.
See also
References
- ↑ Goldtiger997 (December 3, 2020). Re: Small Spaceship Syntheses (discussion thread) at the ConwayLife.com forums
- ↑ Goldtiger997 (December 4, 2020). Re: Small Spaceship Syntheses (discussion thread) at the ConwayLife.com forums
External links
- Turtle at the Life Lexicon
- The Turtle (glider 11302) at David Eppstein's Glider Database
- 44P3H1V0.2 at Heinrich Koenig's Game of Life Object Catalogs
Categories:
- Patterns
- Patterns with 44 cells
- Patterns found by Dean Hickerson
- Patterns found in 1989
- Patterns that can be constructed with 100 or more gliders
- Spaceships
- Periodic objects with minimum population 44
- Spaceships with period 3
- Orthogonal spaceships
- Spaceships with speed c/3
- Spaceships with unsimplified speed c/3
- Spaceships with heat 56
- Spaceships with mod 3
- Patterns with bilateral orthogonal symmetry