OCA:Moon

Moon
x = 2, y = 4, rule = B2/S o$bo$bo$o! #C [[ THUMBSIZE 2 THEME 6 GRID GRIDMAJOR 0 SUPPRESS THUMBLAUNCH ]] #C [[ AUTOSTART ]] #C [[ HEIGHT 500 TRACKLOOP 1 1 0 X -0.5 THUMBSIZE 3 ZOOM 48 GPS 1 ]]
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Pattern type	Spaceship
Number of cells	4
Bounding box	2 × 4
Direction	Orthogonal
Period	1 (mod: 1)
Speed	c | c
Heat	8
Kinetic symmetry
Discovered by	Unknown
Year of discovery	Unknown
Rules Outer-totalistic rules B2/S – B245678/S0345678 # of rules 212 = 4096 Isotropic rules B2ae/S – B23-j45678/S01e2-k345678
Pattern files RLE moon.rle
Identifiers apgcode xp1_69/b2s

The Moon is a small alien photon and phoenix spaceship which becomes the Grin in Life. It works in multiple rules, including those without survival conditions like Seeds, Live Free or Die and Logic Rule, as well as Generations rules such as Brian's Brain and Star Wars. The pattern also appears as a c/2 orthogonal spaceship in some strobing rules such as B0123/S6, interestingly keeping the same appearance in all phases, as well as being a c/2 orthogonal spaceship with different phases in rules such as B2e3ij/S2ak and B2e3i/S1c2ek. It is often extendable by increasing the size of its wings. It works in 2¹² outer-totalistic rules (one sixty-fourth of all OT rules), from B2/S to B245678/S0345678, as well as 2⁹⁴ isotropic non-totalistic rules (1/256th of all rules), from B2ae/S to B23-j45678/S01e2-k345678.

Gallery

Spaceships made of spaceships

x = 7, y = 7, rule = B2ekn3-acy4cjqty5cejry6-ae7e/S01e2akn3-aqr4citz5enry6aek o$bo$bo$o2$4b2o$3bo2bo! #C [[ THUMBSIZE 2 THEME 6 GRID GRIDMAJOR 0 SUPPRESS THUMBLAUNCH ]] #C [[ THUMBSIZE 2 AUTOSTART GPS 8 TRACKLOOP 31 1/31 -1/31 HEIGHT 500 X -0.5 Y 0.5 ZOOM 24 ]]

c/31 diagonal (click above to open LifeViewer) Catagolue: here

x = 5, y = 5, rule = B2cek3cij4akrtz5-eijr6i7c/S2-i3n4cnqwyz5y6an7c8 o3bo$b2o$3bo$3bo$4bo! #C [[ THUMBSIZE 2 THEME 6 GRID GRIDMAJOR 0 SUPPRESS THUMBLAUNCH ]] #C [[ THUMBSIZE 2 AUTOSTART GPS 8 TRACKLOOP 45 1/45 -1/45 HEIGHT 500 X -0.5 Y 0.5 ZOOM 22 ]]

c/45 diagonal (click above to open LifeViewer) Catagolue: here

x = 7, y = 7, rule = B2cen3ceij4-acnyz5-ijq6ce7e/S2ak3-acnq4ityz5aeijn6-ci7e o$bo$bo$o2$4b2o$3bo2bo! #C [[ THUMBSIZE 2 THEME 6 GRID GRIDMAJOR 0 SUPPRESS THUMBLAUNCH ]] #C [[ THUMBSIZE 2 AUTOSTART GPS 8 TRACKLOOP 63 1/63 -1/63 HEIGHT 500 X -0.5 Y 0.5 ZOOM 20 ]]

c/63 diagonal (click above to open LifeViewer) Catagolue: here