Meaning of middleweight spaceship | Babel Free

Definitions

A particular orthogonal spaceship in Conway's Game of Life, and the second smallest such example.

Examples

“To begin with and to be complete, I will list the original spaceships. These are the glider, the lightweight spaceship (LWSS), middleweight spaceship (MWSS), and the heavyweight spaceship (HWSS). These were all found very soon after Life was invented by Conway.”

“The trailing middleweight spaceships convert the spark into a pair of pi-heptominos, which start the line of blinkers burning again, while leaving behind a pair of blocks.”

“The usual non-glider suspects from Conway's Life (lightweight, middleweight, and heavyweight spaceships) all fail here due to central 7-neighbor OFF cells.”

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