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| Pattern type | Puffer | ||||||
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| Number of cells | 43 | ||||||
| Bounding box | 29 × 28 | ||||||
| Direction | Diagonal | ||||||
| Period | 288 | ||||||
| Speed | c/12 | ||||||
| Discovered by | Charles Corderman | ||||||
| Year of discovery | 1971 | ||||||
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The block-laying switch engine (or block-making switch engine) is a puffer that was found by Charles Corderman. It consists of a switch engine reacting with blocks to create an infinite number of new blocks (eight new blocks every 288 generations).
It is the most common naturally-occurring pattern that exhibits infinite growth, and is one of only two patterns that exhibits infinite growth that has been known to occur naturally (the other being the glider-producing switch engine).
Because of its easy construction (see the predecessor below), it has appeared in some superlinear growth patterns including mosquito 1 and mosquito 2.[1]
Commonness
The block-laying switch engine is the sixty-fourth most common object on Adam P. Goucher's Catagolue.[2]
Image gallery
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 RLE: here |
References
- ↑ "Mosquito 1". The Life Lexicon. Stephen Silver. Retrieved on June 1, 2009.
- ↑ Adam P. Goucher. "Statistics". Catagolue. Retrieved on June 24, 2016.
External links
- Single switch engine puffer trains at the Life Objects Catalog