Here’s another big spaceship evolving from a soup. The rule here is B358/S23, and the soup has D2_+1 symmetry.
x = 143, y = 41, rule = B358/S23 47b2o$49bo$51b2o$45bo7bo32bo$b2o21bo20bob3o36bo35b3o$o2bo19bobo24bo3bo 30bobo34bo14b2o$bobo18bo3bo14bobo5b2o32bo5bo32bo4bo12b2o$5bob3o12bo3bo 17b3obo2b4o2bo24bo7bo17bobo12bo12b2obo2bo$7bo2bo12bobo15bo3b2ob2o3bo3b o25bobobobo18bobo14bo2bo4bo3bob2obo$3b5ob2o13bo15bo2b3o11b2o25bo3bo35b 2o2bo4bo3bo2b3o$2bo2bo36bo3b2o3b2o4bobo19b2o34b2o6bo4bo4bo$2bo2b2o5b2o 30bob2o8bo2bo19b2o4bobo20bobo4b2o6bo4b2o4bo2bo$6bo6b2o2bo22b3ob2o2bo7b o27b2ob2o19bobo13bo4bo6bo$4bob2o4b2o2bo3bo23b2o2bo7bobo26b3o37bo$2bobo 12bobobo24bobobo6bo28bo39bo$2bobo4bo7bob4o25b2o$4bo3bo3b2o4b2obo26b2o$ 8b3ob2o3b2obo$18bo4$18bo$8b3ob2o3b2obo$4bo3bo3b2o4b2obo26b2o$2bobo4bo 7bob4o25b2o$2bobo12bobobo24bobobo6bo28bo39bo$4bob2o4b2o2bo3bo23b2o2bo 7bobo26b3o37bo$6bo6b2o2bo22b3ob2o2bo7bo27b2ob2o19bobo13bo4bo6bo$2bo2b 2o5b2o30bob2o8bo2bo19b2o4bobo20bobo4b2o6bo4b2o4bo2bo$2bo2bo36bo3b2o3b 2o4bobo19b2o34b2o6bo4bo4bo$3b5ob2o13bo15bo2b3o11b2o25bo3bo35b2o2bo4bo 3bo2b3o$7bo2bo12bobo15bo3b2ob2o3bo3bo25bobobobo18bobo14bo2bo4bo3bob2ob o$5bob3o12bo3bo17b3obo2b4o2bo24bo7bo17bobo12bo12b2obo2bo$bobo18bo3bo 14bobo5b2o32bo5bo32bo4bo12b2o$o2bo19bobo24bo3bo30bobo34bo14b2o$b2o21bo 20bob3o36bo35b3o$45bo7bo32bo$51b2o$49bo$47b2o!
It goes left to right (right to left in the original soup) at speed 36c/72.
Again, the way this comes about is through development of a small seed. In this case at generation 83 you get a couple of these objectswhich in four generations recur, inverted, but with some debris.
By itself, this seed becomes a 36c/72 puffer.
But two of them, mirror images at just the right separation, have their smoke trails interact in such a way as to extinguish them, and the result is a spaceship. If you start with this pair
x = 9, y = 29, rule = B358/S23 $2bo2b3o$2bob2obo$b2obo2bo$5b2o$2b2o18$2b2o$5b2o$b2obo2bo$2bob2obo$2bo 2b3o!
you end up with a ship, plus a couple of blinkers.
These puffer seeds crop up fairly regularly — they develop into puffers 214 times out of 5,274,253,500 C1 soups — though this looks like the first time two of them have produced a spaceship. This symmetric object isn’t the only way to kill the puffer smoke, though. Here are six other ships produced by placing two puffers at various relative positions and phases. Undoubtedly there are lots more.
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