Shillelagh siamese snake
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| Pattern type | Strict still life | ||||||||
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| Number of cells | 12 | ||||||||
| Bounding box | 8 × 3 | ||||||||
| Frequency class | 28.2 | ||||||||
| Static symmetry | Unspecified | ||||||||
| Discovered by | Robert Wainwright Everett Boyer | ||||||||
| Year of discovery | 1973 | ||||||||
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The shillelagh siamese snake is a 12-cell still life.
Construction
The cheapest known way of constructing this still life uses 5 gliders.[1] Several known syntheses can be found in Mark Niemiec's database.[2]
| A 6G synthesis[2] (click above to open LifeViewer) |
Occurrence
Among the 121 still lifes with 12 cells, this is the 50th most common still life according to Catagolue.
There are no collisions in octohash, octo3obj or octo3g databases with this still life occurring in the ash.
References
- ↑ xs12_drz346 at Adam P. Goucher's Catagolue
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 The 121 twelve-bit still-lifes at Mark D. Niemiec's Life Page (download pattern file: 12/12-79.rle)
External links
- Shillelagh siamese snake at Adam P. Goucher's Catagolue
- 12.53 at Heinrich Koenig's Game of Life Object Catalogs
Categories:
- Patterns
- Patterns with Catagolue frequency class 28
- Natural periodic objects
- Periodic objects with minimum population 12
- Patterns with 12 cells
- Patterns found by Robert Wainwright
- Patterns found by Everett Boyer
- Patterns found in 1973
- Patterns that can be constructed with 5 gliders
- Still lifes
- Strict still lifes
- Strict still lifes with 12 cells