Mazing
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| Pattern type | Oscillator | ||||||||
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| Number of cells | 12 | ||||||||
| Bounding box | 8 × 8 | ||||||||
| Frequency class | 26.6 | ||||||||
| Period | 4 (mod: 2) | ||||||||
| Heat | 14 | ||||||||
| Volatility | 1.00 | 0.92 | ||||||||
| Kinetic symmetry | Unspecified | ||||||||
| Discovered by | David Buckingham | ||||||||
| Year of discovery | 1973 | ||||||||
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Mazing is a period-4 oscillator found by David Buckingham in December 1973.[1] In terms of its 12 cells it is tied with mold as the smallest period 4 oscillator, but mold has a smaller bounding box.
Occurrence
- See also: List of common oscillators
Mazing is about the fifteenth most common naturally-occurring oscillator in Achim Flammenkamp's census, being less common than the tripole but more common than the blocker.[2] On Catagolue, it is the second most common period 4 oscillator, being less common than mold but more common than the cloverleaf.[3] In diagonal symmetries, including 8-fold symmetries, it is by far the most common period-4 oscillator.
In other rules
In rules with S4w, a mazing can be pertubed with a dot spark such in a way that a becomes a corner dot sparkler.
| "Normal" mazing and "sparkling" mazing side by side in B3/S234w. (click above to open LifeViewer) Catagolue: here |
Glider synthesis
All strict still lifes with a population of 22 or fewer cells, all oscillators with 16 or fewer cells, and all spaceships with 31 or fewer cells are known to be glider-constructible. A glider synthesis of this object can be found in the infobox to the right.
Uses as catalyst
| two mazings having dimer[n 1] (click above to open LifeViewer) Catagolue: here |
| The same hassling mechanism, with gutter-preserving cwoozy-half stabilisation (monomerised from tetramer discovered by Charity Engine on 2022-02-18)[4] (click above to open LifeViewer) Catagolue: here |
| Mazing can eat a glider, as seen in Simkin's p60 (click above to open LifeViewer) |
Charity Engine discoveries
| A highly volatile oscillator comprised of four mazing halves mutually supporting an unnamed active region (occurred in a C4_1 soup on 2022-03-02)[5] (click above to open LifeViewer) Catagolue: here |
| A low-clearance sparker supported by two mazings (can also have them the other way around) (occurred in tetramer form on 2022-05-20)[6] (click above to open LifeViewer) Catagolue: here |
| An oscillator in which two mazings hassle an object containing in three of its four phases a cis-fuse with two tails (occurred in dimer form on 2022-12-28)[7] (click above to open LifeViewer) Catagolue: here |
See also
Notes
- ↑ name from anonymous Catagolue comment on 2018-11-06
References
- ↑ Dean Hickerson's oscillator stamp collection. Retrieved on March 14, 2020.
- ↑ Achim Flammenkamp (September 7, 2004). "Most seen natural occurring ash objects in Game of Life". Retrieved on January 15, 2009.
- ↑ Adam P. Goucher. "Census". Catagolue. Retrieved on October 27, 2018.
- ↑ attribute page, first occurrence
- ↑ attribute page, first occurrence
- ↑ attribute page, first (and only) occurrence
- ↑ attribute page, first occurrence
External links
- Mazing at the Life Lexicon
- Mazing at Adam P. Goucher's Catagolue
- 12P4.2 at Heinrich Koenig's Game of Life Object Catalogs
- Patterns
- Patterns with Catagolue frequency class 26
- Natural periodic objects
- Oscillators with 12 cells
- Periodic objects with minimum population 12
- Patterns with 12 cells
- Patterns found by David Buckingham
- Patterns found in 1973
- Patterns that can be constructed with 5 gliders
- Oscillators
- Oscillators with period 4
- Oscillators with mod 2
- Oscillators with heat 14
- Oscillators with volatility 1.00
- Oscillators with strict volatility 0.92
- Patterns with bilateral diagonal symmetry
- Flipping oscillators
- Sparkers
- Sparkers with period 4
- Weak sparkers