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Lightweight spaceship

The smallest orthogonal spaceship, travelling at half the speed of light. Known as the LWSS.

B3/S23 live simulation — not a recording
Category
spaceship
Rule
B3/S23
Bounding box
5 × 4
Live cells
9
Period
4 generations
Discovered by
John Conway, 1970
Views
3
spaceship c/2 orthogonal
Pattern data
x = 5, y = 4, rule = B3/S23
bo2bo$o$o3bo$4o!

Run Length Encoded - the standard interchange format. This will paste straight into Golly or any other Life program.

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