What to watch
- Its front advances at the same rate as the LWSS and MWSS.
- The larger body needs a wider viewport to inspect comfortably.
- It is useful for studying repeated spaceship motifs.
Spaceships
Heavyweight spaceship
HWSS
The broadest of the classic lightweight, middleweight, heavyweight trio.
The HWSS completes the classic orthogonal spaceship sequence and makes it easy to compare body width against the same c/2 velocity.
- Category
- Spaceships
- Period
- 4
- Movement
- c/2 orthogonal
- Population
- 14 cells
- Bounding box
- 8 x 5
- Known since
- 1970
How to use it
Use it after LWSS and MWSS to compare a complete spaceship family.
Open the pattern in the lab, reduce the speed, and use single-step mode when a phase change is hard to see. The green preview marks births in the next generation; red outlines mark live cells that will die.