Conway S Game Of Life Spaceship
One interacts with the game of life by creating an initial configuration and observing how it evolves.
Conway s game of life spaceship. Its domino spark can be used to stabilize several tagalongs including sidecar and half of x66. The game of life also known simply as life is a cellular automaton devised by the british mathematician john horton conway in 1970. It was found by john conway in 1970 and travels at a speed of c 2 orthogonally. In december 2014 brett berger constructed the first fast oblique spaceship in conway s game of life the waterbear moving at a velocity of 23 5 c 79.
The lightweight spaceship in conway s game of life a spaceship also referred to as a glider or less commonly a fish and commonly shortened to ship is a finite pattern that returns to its initial state after a number of generations known as its period but in a different location. With a period of 158 it is the lowest period oblique spaceship other than sir robin. It can support various non standard components such as pushalong 1. The middleweight spaceship commonly abbreviated to mwss or rarely medium fish is the third most common spaceship after the glider and lightweight spaceship.
It has a bounding box very slightly smaller than the parallel hbk. The heavyweight spaceship commonly abbreviated to hwss or rarely big fish is the fourth most common spaceship after the glider lightweight spaceship and middleweight spaceship. It was found by john conway in 1970 and travels at c 2 orthogonally. The lightweight spaceship commonly abbreviated to lwss or rarely small fish is the smallest orthogonal spaceship and the second most common spaceship after the glider.
It is a zero player game meaning that its evolution is determined by its initial state requiring no further input.