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- #C From: "David I. Bell" <dbell@canb.auug.org.au>
- #C Subject: 309 cell spacefiller
- #C Date: Thu, 09 Sep 1993 08:31:24 +1000
- #C
- #C Dean says:
- #C > Lovely! The initial population can be reduced to 313 cells; can anyone
- #C > improve this?:
- #C
- #C Yes! Here is 309 cells. It's amazing to me how many people can overlook
- #C the simple trick of making standard spaceship-like parts into LWSS versions!
- #C It's the excitement, I suppose (and the search program which loves the larger
- #C versions of spaceships). So now do I win the prize for the smallest one
- #C of these found so far? :)
- #C
- #C I had a quick look for spaceships in the spacefiller field which travel
- #C parallel to the rows at c/2 or less, and found nothing. But my search was
- #C nowhere near complete.
- #C
- #C I have been trying to shrink those large c/2 spaceships to find a smaller
- #C spacefiller, but no luck yet. However, I did find a symmetrical connection
- #C to replace them, so that the spacefiller has symmetry on both axes. I can
- #C post this if anyone is interested, but it uses two c/2 spaceships on each
- #C end to support a c/2 component that attaches to the spacefiller, so it is
- #C much larger.
- #P
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