Small lake

Small lake
x = 9, y = 9, rule = B3/S23 4bo$3bobo$3bobo$b2o3b2o$o7bo$b2o3b2o$3bobo$3bobo$4bo! #C [[ THUMBSIZE 2 THEME 6 GRID GRIDMAJOR 0 SUPPRESS THUMBLAUNCH ]] #C [[ THUMBSIZE 3 ZOOM 21 HEIGHT 400 SUPPRESS ]]
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Pattern type	Strict still life
Number of cells	20
Bounding box	9 × 9
Static symmetry	Unspecified
Discovered by	Unknown
Year of discovery	Unknown
Rules Outer-totalistic rules B/S2 – B3678/S012345678 # of rules 212 = 4096
Glider synthesis Fewest gliders 10 Uploaded synthesis RLE smalllake_synth.rle
Pattern files Plaintext smalllake.cells RLE smalllake.rle

Small lake is a 20-cell still life. It is similar in structure to lake 2, although it is not a true lake itself due to its four sides that are only a single cell in length.

Two closely related still lifes; the first one is four siamese hats.
Download RLE: click here ; Catagolue: here, here

In other rules

It occurs frequently in the Life-like cellular automaton B3/S235e, evolving from several precedessors of traffic lights.

External links

• Small lake at the Life Lexicon

• Small lake at Adam P. Goucher's Catagolue

• Twenty-Bit Life Objects at Mark D. Niemiec's Life Page