Ship tie snake
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| Pattern type | Strict still life | ||||||||
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| Number of cells | 12 | ||||||||
| Bounding box | 7 × 5 | ||||||||
| Frequency class | 23.4 | ||||||||
| Static symmetry | Unspecified | ||||||||
| Discovered by | Robert Wainwright Everett Boyer | ||||||||
| Year of discovery | 1973 | ||||||||
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Ship tie snake is a 12-cell still life. As its name implies, it involves a ship having been tied to a snake.
Construction
| A 5G synthesis (click above to open LifeViewer) |
A 5-glider synthesis for this still life is shown above. A number of known alternate syntheses can be found in Mark Niemiec's database.[1]
Commonness
Among still lifes with 12 cells, this is the 17th most common still life according to Catagolue. Among all still lifes, it ranks 144th.
There are no occurrences of this still life in final patterns of collisions in the octohash, octo3obj or octo3g databases.
References
- ↑ The 121 twelve-bit still-lifes at Mark D. Niemiec's Life Page (download pattern file: 12/12-5.rle)
External links
- Ship tie snake at Adam P. Goucher's Catagolue
- 12.13 at Heinrich Koenig's Game of Life Object Catalogs
Categories:
- Patterns
- Patterns with Catagolue frequency class 23
- 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