Birth of 3-headed monster

Under the Generations 345/3/6 aka LivingOnTheEdge (LOTE) cellular automata, track laying engines arise from time to time, but always previously with two (space)ship-like heads joined by a period 4 bridging of the 2 cell gap between them. Then, just before iteration 185,000 from the p8_HJ seed which was already producing a rush of new mechanisms, a three headed monster engine emerged on an otherwise typical boundary of active core. This monster just managed to make it into open space after a cross-flow track eroded ou of the way just in time and a singular incoming ship narrowly avoided a head on.

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Science & Technology

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• emergence
• cellular automata