Egyptian walk

	Egyptian walk
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Pattern type	Strict still life
Number of cells	12
Bounding box	7 × 4
Frequency class	35.3
Static symmetry	Unspecified
Discovered by	Unknown
Year of discovery	Unknown
Rules
Outer-totalistic rules	B/S23 – B3678/S012345678
# of rules	211 = 2048
Isotropic rules	B/S2ae3nr – B2-ac34-nr5-n678/S012345678
Glider synthesis
Fewest gliders	6
Catagolue-generated RLE	synthesis
Pattern files
Plaintext	egyptianwalk.cells
RLE	egyptianwalk.rle
Identifiers
apgcode	xs12_321f84c
Niemiec ID	12.117
Pentadecathlon ID	12.85

The Egyptian walk is a 12-cell still life, and the 114th most common such still life according to Catagolue.

A 6-glider synthesis of this still life was found by Chris Cain on March 13, 2015 based on a suggested predecessor from Matthias Merzenich.^[1]

References

↑ Chris Cain (March 13, 2015). Re: Soup search results (discussion thread) at the ConwayLife.com forums