Beehive with hooked tail

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Beehive with hooked tail
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Pattern type Strict still life
Number of cells 12
Bounding box 6 × 5
Frequency class 21.7
Discovered by Robert Wainwright
Everett Boyer
Year of discovery 1973

Beehive with hooked tail is a 12-cell still life consisting of a beehive and an attached hooked tail.

Commonness

Main article: List of common still lifes

Beehive with hooked tail is the eighty-eighth most common still life in Achim Flammenkamp's census, being less common than trans-loaf on table but more common than beehive with nine.[1]

It is the 92nd most common still life on Adam P. Goucher's Catagolue, being less common than cis-boat on cap but more common than trans-boat with nine. It is the 12th most common still life with 12 cells, being less common than beehive at beehive but more common than beehive with nine.[2]

The octo3obj database contains eight collisions with this still life occurring in the ash.

Glider synthesis

On March 27, 2007 Dean Hickerson found a 4-glider synthesis of this still life.[3] A number of known syntheses can be found in Mark Niemiec's database.[4]

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4G syntheses[3][4]
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See also

References

  1. Achim Flammenkamp (September 7, 2004). "Most seen natural occurring ash objects in Game of Life". Retrieved on January 15, 2009.
  2. Adam P. Goucher. "Statistics". Catagolue. Retrieved on May 4, 2023.
  3. 3.0 3.1 2, 3, and 4-glider syntheses at Dean Hickerson's Life page
  4. 4.0 4.1 The 121 twelve-bit still-lifes at Mark D. Niemiec's Life Page (download pattern file: 12/12-112.rle)

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