Confused eaters

	Confused eaters
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Pattern type	Oscillator
Number of cells	20
Bounding box	11 × 11
Period	4 (mod: Unknown)
Heat	6
Volatility	Unknown \| Unknown
Kinetic symmetry	Unspecified
Discovered by	David Buckingham
Year of discovery	Unknown
Glider synthesis
Fewest gliders	20†
Uploaded synthesis RLE	confusedeaters_synth.rle
	†Can be constructed with 15 gliders using the reverse caber tosser universal constructor.
Pattern files
Plaintext	confusedeaters.cells
RLE	confusedeaters.rle

Confused eaters is a period 4 oscillator that was found by David Buckingham no later than 1972.

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