Blonk-tie
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| Pattern type | Methuselah | ||||||||
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| Number of cells | 7 | ||||||||
| Bounding box | 3 × 5 | ||||||||
| MCPS | 7 | ||||||||
| Lifespan | 551 generations | ||||||||
| Final population | 104 | ||||||||
| L/I | 78.7 | ||||||||
| F/I | 14.9 | ||||||||
| F/L | 0.189 | ||||||||
| L/MCPS | 78.7 | ||||||||
| Static symmetry | Unspecified | ||||||||
| Discovered by | Unknown | ||||||||
| Year of discovery | 1971 | ||||||||
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The blonk-tie (also known as block-tie-blinker or J) is a somewhat common methuselah.
Predecessors
The blonk-tie has four related six-cell parents.
It also has an edgeshootable eight-cell grandparent that it forms from occasionally. This utilizes a seven-cell parent of the blonk-tie.
A fishhook can each serve as a one-glider seed for a blonk-tie. In addition, a blinker can serve as a one-glider seed for its child.
Evolution
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The first surviving objects created are a glider at generation 153 and a block and beehive near each other at generations 159 and 161 respectively. At generation 147, an R grandchild is creating that spawns a B-sequence. Of the two gliders emitted by the resulting Herschel, one crashes into the chaos behind, briefly creating a honey farm predecessor, while the other escapes. The chaos almost dies around generation 340 but resurges due to the formation of a wing sequence. An elevener is almost created at generation 429, and a fleet is formed at generation 503. The last object, a block, is formed at generation 548, with the chaos stabilizing 3 generations later. |
Conduits
The blonk-tie is used in several conduits, represented by the letter J.
| When one of its parents hits a block, the collision turns into an R-pentomino that a snake-type catalyst can turn into a Herschel output and a block in the same position, just like Conduit 1. (click above to open LifeViewer) |