Gallery / spaceship / Middleweight spaceship

Middleweight spaceship

One cell wider than the LWSS and just as fast. The MWSS leaves a slightly larger spark, which matters when you are building with them.

B3/S23 live simulation — not a recording
Category
spaceship
Rule
B3/S23
Bounding box
6 × 5
Live cells
11
Period
4 generations
Discovered by
John Conway, 1970
Views
3
spaceship c/2 orthogonal
Pattern data
x = 6, y = 5, rule = B3/S23
3bo$bo3bo$o$o4bo$5o!

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

More like this

Other spaceships