lightweight spaceship
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[edit]Noun
[edit]lightweight spaceship (plural lightweight spaceships)
- (cellular automata) A particular orthogonal spaceship in Conway's Game of Life, and the smallest such example.
- Synonym: LWSS
- Coordinate terms: middleweight spaceship, oblique spaceship
- 1992 August 13, David Bell, “Spaceships in Conway's Life (Part 1)”, in comp.theory.cell-automata[1] (Usenet):
- 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.