Toaster
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| Pattern type | Oscillator | ||||||||
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| Family | Volcano | ||||||||
| Number of cells | 54 | ||||||||
| Bounding box | 15 × 12 | ||||||||
| Period | 5 (mod: 5) | ||||||||
| Heat | 21.6 | ||||||||
| Volatility | 0.54 | 0.54 | ||||||||
| Kinetic symmetry | Unspecified | ||||||||
| Discovered by | Dean Hickerson | ||||||||
| Year of discovery | 1992 | ||||||||
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Toaster (or lightweight volcano) is a period-5 oscillator that was found by Dean Hickerson on April 1, 1992[1] that produces sparks much like a lightweight spaceship on its left and right sides. A minimal change can be done to change its symmetry type.
A stator variant of this oscillator appeared semi-naturally on 2018, in a symmetric soup submitted to Catagolue by Apple Bottom[2], and another on 2022-02-16 by Charity Engine[3].
On November 19, 2021, Dongook Lee and Entity Valkyrie observed that a toaster can be phase shifted to produce an oscillator of period 5n+2.[4]
There is a smaller-population (41 cells) but higher-bounding-box (16*13) asymmetric period-5 LWSS emulator.
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See also
References
- ↑ Dean Hickerson's oscillator stamp collection. Retrieved on March 14, 2020.
- ↑ Apple Bottom (April 27, 2018). Re: Soup search results (discussion thread) at the ConwayLife.com forums, and Charity Engine's noninteracting stator variant
- ↑ Charity Engine's variant (and a larger Charity Engine's variant of that varying only in noninteracting stator cells) on Catagolue
- ↑ Entity Valkyrie (November 19, 2021). Re: Oscillator Discussion Thread (discussion thread) at the ConwayLife.com forums
External links
- Toaster at the Life Lexicon
- 54P5.1 at Heinrich Koenig's Game of Life Object Catalogs
Categories:
- Patterns
- Oscillators with 54 cells
- Periodic objects with minimum population 54
- Patterns with 54 cells
- Patterns found by Dean Hickerson
- Patterns found in 1992
- Oscillators
- Volcano variants
- Oscillators with period 5
- Oscillators with mod 5
- Oscillators with heat 21
- Oscillators with volatility 0.54
- Oscillators with strict volatility 0.54
- Patterns with bilateral orthogonal symmetry
- Sparkers
- Sparkers with period 5
- Dot sparkers
- Strong sparkers