Extremely impressive

	Extremely impressive
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Pattern type	Oscillator
Number of cells	30
Bounding box	12 × 10
Period	6
Mod	Unknown
Heat	4
Volatility	0.31
Strict volatility	Unknown
Discovered by	David Buckingham
Year of discovery	1976
Rules
Outer-totalistic rules	B3/S23 – B378/S235678
# of rules	26 = 64
Glider synthesis
Fewest gliders	30†
Uploaded synthesis RLE	extremelyimpressive_synth.rle
	†Can be constructed with 15 gliders using the reverse caber tosser universal constructor.
Pattern files
Plaintext	extremelyimpressive.cells
RLE	extremelyimpressive.rle

Extremely impressive is a period 6 oscillator that was found in August 1976 by David Buckingham.^[1] A variant of this oscillator with a slightly larger stator can be synthesized from 30 gliders.

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