Heavyweight emulator

Heavyweight emulator
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Pattern type	Oscillator
Family	Emulator
Number of cells	34
Bounding box	16 × 7
Period	4 (mod: 4)
Heat	20
Volatility	0.59 | 0.48
Kinetic symmetry	Unspecified
Discovered by	Robert Wainwright
Year of discovery	1980
Rules Outer-totalistic rules B3/S23 – B378/S236 # of rules 23 = 8 Isotropic rules B3aij/S2-n3nry – B2n34-jkny5-jqy6-k78/S1c234-ar5-ai67e
Glider synthesis Fewest gliders 21† Catagolue-generated RLE synthesis Uploaded synthesis RLE heavyweightemulator_synth.rle †Can be constructed with 15 gliders using the reverse caber tosser universal constructor.
Pattern files Plaintext heavyweightemulator.cells RLE heavyweightemulator.rle
Identifiers apgcode xp4_c4o796zuvvzc97o4ozx11 Pentadecathlon ID 34P4.5

Heavyweight emulator is a period-4 oscillator found by Robert Wainwright in June 1980. It is the largest of the three standard emulators and produces sparks similar to those of the heavyweight spaceship. A larger but higher clearance one is shown below.

x = 20, y = 18, rule = B3/S23 9b2o$7bo4bo3$5b10o$5b2o6b2o$4b2o8b2o$4bo10bo2$2b3o10b3o$2b4o2bo2bo2b4o $bo6b4o6bo$b6o6b6o$o5b8o5bo$b5o2bo2bo2b5o$5bo8bo$3bo12bo$3b2o10b2o! #C [[ THUMBSIZE 2 THEME 6 GRID GRIDMAJOR 0 SUPPRESS THUMBLAUNCH ]] #C [[ AUTOSTART GPS 2 LOOP 4 THUMBLAUNCH THUMBSIZE 2 THEME 6 ZOOM 12 HEIGHT 320 WIDTH 600 ]] A much more accessible (20*18) p4 domino sparker. (click above to open LifeViewer) RLE: here Plaintext: here Catagolue: here

x = 16, y = 27, rule = B3/S23 7b2o$5bo4bo3$3b10o$3b2o6b2o$2b2o8b2o$2bo10bo2$bobo8bobo$3bo2bo2bo2bo$2o2b3o2b3o2b2o$2b3o6b3o$6bo2bo$2bobo6bobo$b2obob4obob2o$4b2o4b2o$b2o4b2o4b2o$3b4o2b4o$3bo2bo2bo2bo$2b3o2b2o2b3o$2bo2b2o2b2o2bo$3b2ob4ob2o2$3b2o2b2o2b2o$3bo2bo2bo2bo$5b2o2b2o! #C [[ THUMBSIZE 2 THEME 6 GRID GRIDMAJOR 0 SUPPRESS THUMBLAUNCH ]] #C [[ AUTOSTART GPS 2 LOOP 4 THUMBLAUNCH THUMBSIZE 2 THEME 6 ZOOM 12 HEIGHT 480 WIDTH 600 ]] A thinner but taller (16*27) variant of that. (click above to open LifeViewer) Catagolue: here

See also

• Crown
• Ellison p4 HW emulator
• Ellison p4 HW emulator hybrid
• Lightweight emulator
• Middleweight emulator
• Heavyweight volcano

External links

• HW emulator at the Life Lexicon
• Heavyweight emulator at Adam P. Goucher's Catagolue
• 34P4.5 at Heinrich Koenig's Game of Life Object Catalogs
• A huge collection of middleweight and heavyweight emulators (forum post by JP21)