Honey thieves

	Honey thieves
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Pattern type	Oscillator
Number of cells	36
Bounding box	15 × 15
Period	17 (mod: Unknown)
Heat	13.9
Volatility	0.71 \| 0.71
Kinetic symmetry	Unspecified
Discovered by	Matthias Merzenich
Year of discovery	2014
Rules
Outer-totalistic rules	B3/S23 – B38/S0238
# of rules	23 = 8
Pattern files
RLE	raw RLE code

Honey thieves is a period 17 oscillator, consisting of a honey farm predecessor, hassled by 4 eaters. It is the smallest known period 17 oscillator in terms of minimum population, though 54P17.1 still has a slightly smaller bounding box.

It was discovered by Matthias Merzenich in September 2014^[1] with a modified version of Dean Hickerson's drifter search, that facilitates discovery of symmetric oscillators.^[2]

References

↑ Matthias Merzenich (September 11, 2014). "Re: New p17 and other billiard tables". Retrieved on September 11, 2014.
↑ Matthias Merzenich (September 10, 2014). "A small modification of dr". Retrieved on September 11, 2014.