Hook
| Hook | |||||
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| Pattern type | Miscellaneous | ||||
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| Number of cells | 4 | ||||
| Bounding box | 3 × 2 | ||||
| Static symmetry | Unspecified | ||||
| Discovered by | Unknown | ||||
| Year of discovery | Unknown | ||||
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For the 7-cell induction coil also named hook see Bookend
Hook is a pattern which can be stabilised to make patterns such as hook with tail.
It alone evolves into a block in generation 2.
Hitting this with a glider in 2 positions (where if this was a block it would have produced a pi-heptomino) produces a middleweight spaceship.