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2006 March 01

Spaceships
Antstretchers and tubeaters

2006-01-13-antstretcher1.rle
c/4 diagonal antstretcher, with an anteater of the same speed
Nicolay Beluchenko, 5 January 2006
After a long search, Nicolay Beluchenko has successfully found an 'antstretcher' pattern to match his previously discovered 'anteater'. Individual ants in the 'ants' wick supported between these two structures have an apparent speed of travel equal to the speed of light. Ants can either follow one another exactly, or can be offset by either one or two cells; in this case, the speed of the antstretcher and anteater dictate a one-cell offset between ants.

2006-01-13-antstretcher5.rle
smaller version of antstretcher
Hartmut Holzwart, 11 Jan 2006
2006-01-13-antstretcher4.rle
slightly different version of original antstretcher, using a
known small ship (shown on the left) to complete the pattern
Hartmut Holzwart, 11 Jan 2006

2006-01-13-antstretcher2.rle
Glide-symmetric double antstretcher and a 90-bit spaceship
Nicolay Beluchenko, 5 January 2006


2006-01-13-antstretcher3.rle
c/4 diagonal combined antstretcher and tubstretcher
Nicolay Beluchenko, 7 January 2006
Another new combination that has turned up is a connection between a tubstretcher and a tubeater, producing the interesting object at right. Further exploration of tubstretchers and tubeaters yielded the collection of new adjustable-length spaceships (and a puffer) shown below.

2006-01-13-tubeaters4.rle
component allowing the construction of a tubstretcher/eater series
Nicolay Beluchenko, 15 January 2006
2006-01-13-tubeater2.rle
standard blinker puffer version of Nicolay Beluchenko's tubeaters
Hartmut Holzwart, 13 Jan 2006

2006-01-13-tubeater1.rle
pairs of known c/4 diagonal spaceship components can eat tub wicks:
Nicolay Beluchenko, 13 January 2006
2006-01-13-tubeaters3.rle
three more variants of single and double tubeaters
Nicolay Beluchenko, 13 January 2006

Posted by Dave Greene on 2006 March 01 22:41 |