Teardrop with cape

Teardrop with cape
x = 6, y = 5, rule = B3/S23 2o$o2b2o$bobobo$2bo2bo$3b2o! #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	12
Bounding box	6 × 5
Frequency class	29.7
Static symmetry	Unspecified
Discovered by	Robert Wainwright Everett Boyer
Year of discovery	1973
Rules Outer-totalistic rules B/S23 – B3678/S012345678 # of rules 211 = 2048 Isotropic rules B/S2-ci3cnq – B1e2cin34-jry5-kq678/S012345678
Glider synthesis Fewest gliders 5 Catagolue-generated RLE synthesis
Pattern files Plaintext teardropwithcape.cells RLE teardropwithcape.rle
Identifiers apgcode xs12_358mic Niemiec ID 12.98 Pentadecathlon ID 12.65

The teardrop with cape is a 12-cell still life.

Construction

A 6-glider synthesis for this still life was found in July 2020. A 5-glider synthesis was found in April 2023.

x = 37, y = 32, rule = B3/S23 25bo$24bo$2bo21b3o$3b2o$2b2o2$32b2o$32bobo$35bo$33b2obo$33bo2bo$10b2o 22b2o$9bobo$11bo4$3o$2bo$bo10$19b3o$19bo$20bo! #C [[ THUMBSIZE 2 THEME 6 GRID GRIDMAJOR 0 SUPPRESS THUMBLAUNCH ]] #C [[ HEIGHT 400 THEME Book ZOOM 10 AUTOSTART GPS 12 T 0 PAUSE 1 T 20 PAUSE 3 T 30 PAUSE 1 T 100 PAUSE 2 LOOP 101 ]] A 5G synthesis (click above to open LifeViewer)

x = 47, y = 29, rule = B3/S23 28bo13b2o$18bo8bo13bo2bo$18bobo6b3o11bobobo$18b2o22b2o2bo$45b2o2$15bo$13bobo$14b2o5$9b3o$11bo$10bo5$2b3o$4bo$3bo4$bo$b2o$obo! #C [[ THUMBSIZE 2 THEME 6 GRID GRIDMAJOR 0 SUPPRESS THUMBLAUNCH ]] #C [[ THEME Book ZOOM 8 X 0 Y 0 AUTOSTART GPS 12 T 0 PAUSE 3 T 82 PAUSE 2 LOOP 83 ]] A 6G synthesis (click above to open LifeViewer)

x = 38, y = 35, rule = B3/S23 2bo$obo$b2o8bo$12bo$10b3o3$5bo18bobo$6bo17b2o$4b3o18bo7$18bobo6bo$18b2o5b2o6b2o$19bo6b2o5bobo$36bo$34b2obo$34bo2bo$3o32b2o$2bo$bo11b3o$15bo$14bo5$b3o$3bo15b2o4bo$2bo16bobo2b2o$19bo4bobo! #C [[ THUMBSIZE 2 THEME 6 GRID GRIDMAJOR 0 SUPPRESS THUMBLAUNCH ]] #C [[ HEIGHT 400 THEME Book ZOOM 8 X 0 Y 0 AUTOSTART GPS 12 T 0 PAUSE 3 T 14 PAUSE 1 T 40 PAUSE 1 T 49 PAUSE 2 LOOP 50 ]] A 11G synthesis (click above to open LifeViewer)

x = 45, y = 60, rule = B3/S23 42bo$42bobo$42b2o9$6bo31bo$4bobo31bobo$5b2o31b2o7$27bo$27bobo$27b2o4$31bo$30bo9b2o$30b3o7bobo$43bo$41b2obo$41bo2bo$42b2o4$19b2o$18bobo$b2o17bo21bo$obo38b2o$2bo38bobo4$36b3o$36bo$37bo2$30b3o4bo$30bo5b2o$31bo4bobo7$41b3o$41bo$42bo! #C [[ THUMBSIZE 2 THEME 6 GRID GRIDMAJOR 0 SUPPRESS THUMBLAUNCH ]] #C [[ HEIGHT 400 THEME Book ZOOM 8 X 0 Y 0 AUTOSTART GPS 12 T 0 PAUSE 3 T 16 PAUSE 1 T 24 PAUSE 1 T 44 PAUSE 1 T 64 PAUSE 1 T 84 PAUSE 1 T 85 PAUSE 2 LOOP 86 ]] A 12G synthesis (click above to open LifeViewer)

Occurrence

See also: List of common still lifes

Among the 121 still lifes with 12 cells, this is the 62nd 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.

In other rules

In HighLife, the teardrop with cape is almost 500 times as common as it is in Life.

See also

• Teardrop with claw

External links

• Teardrop with cape at Adam P. Goucher's Catagolue
• 12.65 at Heinrich Koenig's Game of Life Object Catalogs