Professor
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| Pattern type | Strict still life | ||||||
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| Number of cells | 46 | ||||||
| Bounding box | 9 × 11 | ||||||
| Static symmetry | Unspecified | ||||||
| Discovered by | Adam P. Goucher | ||||||
| Year of discovery | 2016 | ||||||
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Professor is a 46-bit still life consisting of two large islands (resembling a long⁴ symmetric scorpion) partially stabilizing each other and further stablized by two blocks acting as induction coils.
The cis-mirrored variant of this still life occured naturally from an asymmetric soup in July 2016, making it the largest still life in terms of cell population to have occurred naturally.
Variants
A number of variants are possible, depending on the alignment of the two halves and the position of the blocks:
cis-mirrored professor
trans-mirrored professor
shift-mirrored professor
cis-rotated professor
trans-rotated professor
