Highest volatility period-8 oscillators

All known period-8 oscillators with volatility of at least 0.8.

Rank	Name	Image	Rotor Size	Volatility	Strict volatility
1	Figure eight		96	1.00	1.00
2	Kok's galaxy		96	1.00	1.00
3	Smiley		96	1.00	1.00
4	figure eights shifting toad (occurred in tetramer)		34	1.00	0.96
5	wriggly thing		96	1.00	0.96
6	cis- and trans-figure eights hassling toad		96	1.00	0.96
7	figure eights hassling blinker (occurred in tetramer)		96	0.98	0.92
8	wriggly spark-coil-like beehive hassler		96	0.97	0.95
9	circle of Coe's p8s		96	0.97	0.94
10	Coe's p8 on figure eight (occurred in dimer)		96	0.97	0.97
11	T-nosed p8 with tridecomino stabilisation		96	0.95	0.17
12	four Coe's p8s hassling loaves		96	0.95	0.95
13	four Coe's p8s hassling beacons		96	0.95	0.95
14	odd- and even-symmetry two Coe's p8s		96	0.94	0.94
15	blocktopus		96	0.94	0.92
16	cis- and trans-figure eights hassling long barge		96	0.93	0.93
17	two Coe's p8s with blocks interacting with each other's		96	0.93	0.93
18	far and near two Coe's p8s with blocks interacting with single one (that becomes loaf)		96	0.92	0.90
19	trans- and cis-Coe's p8s hassling beacon		96	0.92	0.92
20	D8_1 ship and near and far block hassler		96	0.92	0.92
21	fourfold T-nosed p8 hassling interior ships		96	0.92	0.34
22	unnamed		96	0.90	0.84
23	Coe's p8		96	0.90	0.90
24	Achim's p8		96	0.90	0.70
25	Blocker		96	0.89	0.89
26	fourfold T-nosed p8 with beacons inside		96	0.87	0.15
27	two blockers hassling pond		96	0.86	0.86
28	fourfold T-nosed p8 with four mutually stabilising butterflies inside		96	0.85	0.15
29	eaters eating Kok's galaxy		96	0.84	0.84

Extensible oscillators and infinite sets are noted as such but only listed as their first term, to prevent arbitrarily large ones approaching volatility 1.

See also

• Highest volatility period-5 oscillators
• Highest volatility period-6 oscillators
• Highest volatility period-7 oscillators